PUZZLE

PUZZLE (director: Marc Turtletaub; screenwriters: Polly Mann/Oren Moverman/based on the Argentinian film "Rompecabezas" by Natalia Smirnoff; cinematographer: Christopher Norr; editor: Catherine Haight; music:Dustin O’Halloran; cast: Irrfan Khan (Robert), David Denman…

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CHINATOWN

CHINATOWN (director: Roman Polanski; screenwriter: Robert Towne; cinematographer: John A. Alonzo; editor: Sam O'Steen; music: Jerry Goldsmith; cast: Jack Nicholson (J.J. Gittes), Faye Dunaway (Evelyn Mulwray), John Huston (Noah Cross),…

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QUEEN BEE

QUEEN BEE (director/writer: Ranald MacDougall; screenwriter: based on the novel The Queen Bee by Edna L. Lee; cinematographer: Charles Lang; editor: Viola Lawrence; music: George Duning; cast: Joan Crawford (Eva…

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CIMARRON

  CIMARRON (director: Wesley Ruggles; screenwriters: novel by Edna Ferber/Howard Estabrook; cinematographer: Edward Cronjager; editor: William Hamilton; music: Max Steiner; cast: Richard Dix (Yancey Cravat), Irene Dunne (Sabra Cravat), Estelle…

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QUICKSAND

QUICKSAND (director: Irving Pichel; screenwriter: Robert Smith; cinematographer: Lionel Lindon; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Louis Gruenberg; cast: Mickey Rooney (Dan Brady), Jeanne Cagney (Vera Novak), Barbara Bates (Helen), Peter Lorre…

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RABBIT, RUN

RABBIT, RUN (director: Jack Smight; screenwriters: based on a John Updike novel/Howard B. Kreitsek; cinematographer: Philip Lathrop; editor: Archie Marshek; music: William Lava; cast: James Caan (Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom), Jack…

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COLOSSAL

COLOSSAL (director/writer: Nacho Vigalondo; cinematographer: Eric Kress; editors: Ben Baudhuin, Luke Doolan; music: Bear McCreary; cast: Anne Hathaway (Gloria), Jason Sudeikis (Oscar), Dan Stevens (Tim), Austin Stowell (Joel), Tim Blake…

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CONFORMIST, THE

CONFORMIST, THE (Conformista, Il) (director/writer: Bernardo Bertolucci; screenwriter: from the novel by Alberto Moravia; cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro; editor: Franco Arcalli; music: Georges Delerue; cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant (Marcello Clerici), Stefania Sandrelli…

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