PETULIA

PETULIA (director: Richard Lester; screenwriters: from John Haase's novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia"/Lawrence B. Marcus/Barbara Turner; cinematographer: Nicolas Roeg; editor: Antony Gibbs; cast: Julie Christie (Petulia Danner), George…

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BIRDWATCHER, THE

THE BIRDWATCHER (VAATLEJE) (director/writer: Arvo Iho; screenwriter: Marina Sheptunova; cinematographer: Tatyana Loginova; editor: Marju Juhkum/Ingrid Laos; music: Olivier Bernard; cast: Thom Hoffman (Charles Williamsen), Ines de Medeiros (Miranda Fernandez), Catherine…

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BLACKFISH

BLACKFISH (director/writer: Gabriela Cowperthwaite; screenwriter: Eli B. Despres; cinematographers: Jonathan Ingalls/Christopher Towey; editor: Eli Despres; music: Jeff Beal; cast: John Hargrove, Samantha Berg, Jeffrey Ventre, John Jett, Mark Simmons, Dean…

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PICCADILLY

PICCADILLY (director: E. A. Dupont; screenwriter: Arnold Bennett; cinematographer: Werner Brandes; editor: J.W. McConaughy; music: Neil Brand; cast: Anna May Wong (Shosho), Gilda Gray (Mabel Greenfield), Jameson Thomas (Valentine Wilmot),…

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BLACK TIGHTS

BLACK TIGHTS (aka: 1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs) (director: Terence Young; cinematographer: Henri Alekan; cast: Maurice Chevalier (Narrator), Zizi Jeanmaire (Carmen), Cyd Charisse (The Widow), Roland Petit (Cyrano de Bergerac),…

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PIED PIPER

  PIED PIPER (director: Irving Pichel; screenwriters: Nunnally Johnson/ based on the novel by Nevil Shute; cinematographer: Edward Cronjager; editor: Allen McNeil; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Monty Wooley (Howard), Roddy…

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BLONDE VENUS

(director: Josef von Sternberg; screenwriters: Jules Furthman/S.K. Lauren; cinematographer: Bert Glennon; editor: Josef von Sternberg; music: W. Franke Harling; cast: Marlene Dietrich (Helen Faraday), Herbert Marshall (Edward Faraday), Cary Grant…

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PIN UP GIRL

PIN UP GIRL (director: Bruce Humberstone; screenwriters: Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, Earl Baldwin, based on the story Imagine Us by Libbie Block; cinematographer: Ernest Palmer; editor: Robert Simpson; music: Mark…

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BLUE SKY

BLUE SKY (director: Tony Richardson; screenwriters: Arlene Sarner/Rama Laurie Stagner/Jerry Leichtling/story by Stagner; cinematographer: Steve Yaconelli; editor: Robert Lambert; music: Jack Nitzsche; cast: Tommy Lee Jones (Hank Marshall), Jessica Lange…

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