ASCENT, THE

ASCENT, THE (Voskhozhdeniye) (director/writer: Larisa Shepitko; screenwriters: from the novel Sotnikov by Vasili Bykov/Yuri Klepikov; cinematographer: Vladimir Chukhnov/Pavel Lebeshev; music: Alfred Shnitke; cast: Boris Plotnikov (Sotnikov), Vladimir Gostyukhin (Rybak), Sergei…

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A SPECIAL DAY

A SPECIAL DAY (UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE) (director/writer: Ettore Scola; screenwriters: Ruggero Maccari/Maurizio Costanzo; cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis; editor: Raimondo Crociani; music: Armando Trovaioli; cast: Sophia Loren (Antonietta), Marcello Mastroianni (Gabriele),…

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NO WAY OUT

NO WAY OUT (director/writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; screenwriter: Lesser Samuels; cinematographer: Milton Krasner; editor: Barbara McLean; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Richard Widmark (Ray Biddle), Linda Darnell (Edie Johnson), Stephen McNally…

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AT ETERNITY’S GATE

AT ETERNITY'S GATE (director/writer: Julian Schnabel; screenwriters: Louise Kugelberg/Jean-Claude Carriere; cinematographer: Benoit Delhomme; editors: Louise Kugelberg/Julian Schnabel; music: Tatiana Lisovskaya; cast: Willem Dafoe (Vincent Van Gogh), Rupert Friend (Theo Van…

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NUN, THE

THE NUN (director: Corin Hardin; screenwriters: Gary Dauberman/based on a story by James Wan & Dauberman; cinematographer: Maxime Alexandre; editors: Michel Aller, Ken Blackwell; music: Abel Korzeniowski; cast: Demian Bichir…

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ATONEMENT

ATONEMENT (director: Joe Wright; screenwriters: from a novel by Ian McEwan/Christopher Hampton; cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey; editor: Paul Tothill; music: Dario Marianelli; cast: James McAvoy (Robbie Turner), Keira Knightley (Cecilia Tallis),…

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OCTOBER

OCTOBER (TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD)(OKTYABR) (director/writer: Sergei Eisenstein/ Grigori Alexandrov; cinematographer: Eduard Tisse; editor: Sergei Eisenstein; music: Dmitri Shostakovich - added music in 1967; cast: Vasily Nikandrov (Lenin),…

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