PERFORMANCE

  PERFORMANCE (directors: Donald Cammell/Nicolas Roeg; screenwriter: Donald Cammell; cinematographer: Nicolas Roeg; editor: Frank Mazzola; cast: James Fox (Chas Devlin), Mick Jagger (Turner), Anita Pallenberg (Pherber), Michele Breton (Lucy), Johnny…

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BIG STAKES

BIG STAKES (director: Clifford S. Elfelt; screenwriter: Earl Wayland Bowman; music: Donald Socio; cast: James B. Warner (Jim Gregory), Eleanor Fair (Senorita Mercedes Aloyez), Les Bates (Bully Brand), Wilamae Carson…

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PETER IBBETSON

PETER IBBETSON (director: Henry Hathaway; screenwriters: from the novel by George duMaurier and the play by John Nathaniel Raphael and Constance Collier/ Vincent Lawrence/Waldemar Young/John Meehan/Edwin Justus Mayer; cinematographer: Charles…

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BIRD BOX

BIRD BOX (director: Susanne Bier; screenwriters: Eric Heisserer/novel by Josh Maleerman; cinematographer: Salvatore Totino; editor: Ben Lester; music: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross; cast: Sandra Bullock (Malorie Shannon), Trevante Rhodes (Tom),…

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PHANTOM THREAD

PHANTOM THREAD (director/writer: Paul Thomas Anderson; cinematographer: Paul Thomas Anderson; editor: Dylan Tichenor; music: Jonny Greenwood; cast: Daniel Day-Lewis (Reynolds Woodcock), Vicky Krieps (Alma), Lesley Manville (Cyril), Camilla Rutherford (Johanna),…

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BLACKBOARD JUNGLE

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (director/writer: Richard Brooks; screenwriters: from the book by Evan Hunter; cinematographer: Russell Harlan; editor: Ferris Webster; music: Charles Wolcott; cast: Glenn Ford (Richard Dadier), Anne Francis (Anne Dadier),…

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PIECES

PIECES (aka: One Thousand Cries Has the Night)(aka: MIL GRITOS TIENE LA NOCHE) (director: Juan Piquer Simón; screenwriters: Dick Randall/Joe D'Amato; cinematographer: John Marine; editor: Antonio Gimeno; music: Librado Pastor;…

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