PASSIONADA

PASSIONADA (director: Dan Ireland; screenwriters: Jim and Steve Jermanok; cinematographer: Claudio Rocha; editor: Luis Colina; music: Justin Caine Burnett; cast: Jason Isaacs (Charles Beck), Sofia Milos (Celia Amonte), Emmy Rossum…

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PATHS OF GLORY

PATHS OF GLORY (director/writer: Stanley Kubrick; screenwriters: Jim Thompson/Calder Willingham/from a Humphrey Cobb novel; cinematographer: Georg Krause; editor: Eva Kroll; cast: Kirk Douglas (Colonel Dax), Ralph Meeker (Corporal Paris), Adolphe…

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BIG COMBO, THE

BIG COMBO, THE (director: Joseph H. Lewis; screenwriter: Philip Yordan; cinematographer: John Alton; editor: Robert S. Eisen; cast: Cornel Wilde (Police Lt. Leonard Diamond), Capt. Peterson (Robert Middleton), Richard Conte…

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PAYOFF, THE

PAYOFF, THE (director: Arthur Dreifuss; screenwriters: story by Arthur Hoerl/Edward Dein; cinematographer: Ira Morgan; editor: Charles Henkel Jr.; cast: Lee Tracy (Brad McKay), Tom Brown (Guy Norris), Tina Thayer (Phyllis…

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BIG HOUSE, THE

BIG HOUSE, THE (director: George W. Hill; screenwriters: Joseph Farnham/Martin Flavin/Frances Marion/Lennox Robinson; cinematographer: Harold Wenstrom; editor: Blanche Sewell; cast: Chester Morris (John Morgan), Wallace Beery (Butch Schmidt), Lewis Stone…

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PEOPLE ON SUNDAY

PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG) (director: Robert Siodmak/Edgar G. Ulmer; screenwriters: Billy Wilder/Robert Siodmak/Curt Siodmak/from a story by Curt Siodmak; cinematographer: Eugen Schüfftan; music: Elena Kats-Chernin (added in 2000);…

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BIG SHAVE, THE

THE BIG SHAVE (director/writer: Martin Scorsese; cinematographer: Ares Demertzis; cast: Peter Bernuth; Runtime: 7; MPAA Rating: NR; Janus; 1968) "personal statement film." Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz Shot by recent NYU…

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PERSONA

PERSONA (director/writer: Ingmar Bergman; cinematographer: Sven Nykvist; editor: Ulla Ryghe; music: Lars Johan Werle; cast: Bibi Andersson (Alma, The Nurse), Liv Ullmann (Elisabeth Vogler, The Actress), Margaretha Krook (The Doctor),…

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BIG WHEEL, THE

BIG WHEEL, THE (director: Edward Ludwig; screenwriter: Robert Smith; cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Nathaniel W. Finston; cast: Mickey Rooney (Billy Coy), Spring Byington (Mary Coy), Lina Romay…

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