BAD MANNERS

  BAD MANNERS (director: Jonathan Kaufer; screenwriter: based on the play by David Gilman "Ghost in the Machine"; cinematographer: Denis Maloney; editor: Robin Katz; music: Ira Newborn; cast: David Strathairn…

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OPEN YOUR EYES

OPEN YOUR EYES (ABRE LOS OJOS) (director/writer: Alejando Amenabar; screenwriter: Mateo Gil; cinematographer: Hans Burmann; editor: Maria Elena S. de Rozas; cast: Eduardo Noriega (Cesar), Penelope Cruz (Sofia), Fele Martinez…

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ORDET

ORDET (THE WORD) (director/writer: Carl Theodor Dreyer; screenwriter: from the play by Kaj Munk; cinematographer: Henning Bendtsen; editor: Edith Schlüssel; music: Poul Schierbeck; cast: Henrik Malberg (Morten Borgen), Emil Hass…

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BAND OF OUTSIDERS

BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Bande à part) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriter: from the novel "Fool's Gold" by Dolores Hitchens; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editors: Françoise Collin/Dahlia Ezove/Agnès Guillemot; music: Michel Legrand; cast:…

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OSAMA

OSAMA (director/writer/editor: Siddiq Barmak; cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafuri; music: Mohammad Reza Darwishi; cast: Marina Golbahari (Osama), Arif Herati (Espandi), Zubaida Sahar (Mother), Khwaja Nader (Mullah), Hamida Refah (Grandmother); Runtime: 82; MPAA…

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BARBARY COAST

BARBARY COAST director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: Charles MacArthur/Ben Hecht; cinematographer: Ray June; editor: Edward Curtiss; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Miriam Hopkins (Mary Rutledge), Edward G Robinson (Louis Chamalis), Joel McCrea…

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BARTLEBY

BARTLEBY (director/writer/producer: Jonathan Parker; screenwriter: Catherine di Napoli, based on the novella by Herman Melville; cinematographer: Wah Ho Chan; editor: Rick LeCompte; music: Seth Asarnow/Jonathan Parker; cast: David Paymer (The…

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