BELLE TOUJOURS

  BELLE TOUJOURS (director/writer: Manoel de Oliveira; screenwriter: inspired by the book by Joseph Kessel; cinematographer: Sabine Lancelin; editor: Valérie Loiseleux; cast: Michel Piccoli (Henri Husson), Bulle Ogier (Séverine Serizy),…

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PASSING FANCY

PASSING FANCY (Dekigokoro) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriter: Tadao Ikeda; cinematographer: Hideo Shigehara/Shojiro Sugimoto; editor: Kazuo Ishikawa; cast: Takeshi Sakamoto (Kihachi), Nobuko Fushimi (Harue), Den Obinata (Jiro), Chouko Iida (Otome), Tomio…

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BEN HUR

BEN HUR (director/writer: William Wyler; screenwriter: from the novel by Lew Wallace/Karl Tunberg; cinematographer: Robert Surtees; editor: Ralph Winters; music: Miklos Rozsa; cast: Charlton Heston (Judah Ben Hur), Stephen Boyd…

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PATHER PANCHALI

PATHER PANCHALI (SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD) (director/writer: Satyajit Ray; screenwriter: based on the novel by Bibhuti Bannerji; cinematographer: Subrata Mitra; editor: Dulal Dutta; cast: Kanu Bannerjee (Hari), Karuna Bannerjee…

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BEST IN SHOW

BEST IN SHOW (director/writer: Christopher Guest; screenwriter: Eugene Levy; cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer; editor: Robert Leighton; cast: Christopher Guest (Harlan Pepper), Parker Posey (Meg Swan), Michael Hitchcock (Hamilton Swan), Eugene Levy…

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PAYCHECK

PAYCHECK (director: John Woo; screenwriters: from a strory by Philip K. Dick/Dean Georgaris; cinematographer: Jeffrey L. Kimball; editors: Christopher Rouse/Kevin Stitt; music: John Powell; cast: Ben Affleck (Michael Jennings), Uma…

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BHOWANI JUNCTION

BHOWANI JUNCTION (director: George Cukor; screenwriters: Sonya Levien/Ivan Moffat; cinematographer: Freddie Young; editors: George Boemler/Frank Clarke; cast: Ava Gardner (Victoria Jones), Stewart Granger (Col. Savage), Bill Travers (Patrick Taylor), Abraham…

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