PEOPLE LIKE US

PEOPLE LIKE US (director/writer: Alex Kurtzman; screenwriters: Roberto Orci/Jody Lambert; cinematographer: Salvatore Totino; editor: Robert Leighton; music: A. R. Rahman; cast: Chris Pine (Sam), Michelle Pfeiffer (Lillian), Elizabeth Banks (Frankie),…

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BIG LAND, THE

THE BIG LAND (aka: STAMPEDE) (director: Gordon Douglas; screenwriters: from the novel Buffalo Grass by Frank Gruber/David Dortort/Martin Rackin; cinematographer: John Seitz; editor: Thomas Reilly; music: David Buttolph; cast: Alan…

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PERSEPOLIS

PERSEPOLIS (directors: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud; screenwriter: based on the graphic novels by Ms. Satrapi; animation coordinator: Christian Desmares; editor: Stéphane Roche; music: Olivier Bernet; with the voices of:…

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BIG SKY, THE

BIG SKY, THE (director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: Dudley Nichols/from the book The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.; cinematographer: Russell Harlan; editor: Christian Nyby; music: Dimitri Tiomkin; cast: Kirk Douglas…

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PHANTOM

PHANTOM (director: F. W. Murnau; screenwriters: Thea von Harbou/Hans Heinrich von Twardowski/from novel by Gerhart Hauptmann; cinematographers: Axel Graatkjaer/Theophan Ouchakoff; music: Robert Israel; cast: Alfred Abel (Lorenz Lubota), Grete Berger…

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BILLY ELLIOT

BILLY ELLIOT (director: Stephen Daldry; screenwriter: Lee Hall; cinematographer: Brian Tufano; editor: John Wilson; cast: Julie Walters (Mrs. Wilkinson), Gary Lewis (Dad, Jackie Elliot), Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot), Jamie Draven…

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PHILOMENA

PHILOMENA (director: Stephen Frears; screenwriters: Jeff Pope/Steve Coogan/ based on the book “The Lost Child of Philomena Lee” by Martin Sixsmith; cinematographer: Robbie Ryan; editor: Valerio Bonelli; music: Alexandre Desplat;…

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BLACK PIRATE, THE

THE BLACK PIRATE (director: Albert Parker; screenwriters: Douglas Fairbanks/Jack Cunningham; cinematographer: Henry Sharp; editor: William Nolan; music: Mortimer Wilson; cast: Douglas Fairbanks (The Duke of Arnoldo /The Black Pirate), Billie…

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