DRIVE

DRIVE (director: Nicolas Winding Refn; screenwriters: Hossein Amini/based on the novel by James Sallis; cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel; editor: Mat Newman; music: Cliff Martinez; cast: Carey Mulligan (Irene), Ryan Gosling…

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EAR, THE

THE EAR (UCHO) (director/writer: Karel Kachyna; screenwriters: from a story by Jan Prochazka/Jan Prochazka; cinematographer: Josef Illik; editor: Miroslav Hanek; music: Svatopluk Havelka; cast: Jirina Bohdalová (Anna), Radoslav Brzobohatý (Ludvik),…

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EDGE OF DARKNESS

EDGE OF DARKNESS (director: Martin Campbell; screenwriters: William Monahan/Andrew Bovell/based on the BBC mini-series written by Troy Kennedy Martin; cinematographer: Phil Méheux; editor: Stuart Baird; music: Howard Shore; cast: Mel…

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ESTHER

ESTHER (director/writer: Amos Gitai; screenwriter: Stephan Levine; cinematographer: Henri Alekan; editor: Sheherazade Saadi; cast: Shmuel Wolf (beggar-narrator), Simone Benyamini (Esther), Zare Vartinyan (Ahasverus), Mohammed Bakri (Mordecai), Juliano Merr (Haman), David…

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FAT CITY

FAT CITY (director: John Huston; screenwriter: from the book by Leonard Gardner/Mr. Gardner; cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Marvin Hamlisch; cast: Stacy Keach (Bill Tully), Jeff Bridges…

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