PAY DAY

PAY DAY (director/writer: Charles Chaplin; cinematographer: R.H. Totheroh; editor: Charles Chaplin; music: Charles Chaplin; cast: Charles Chaplin (Laborer), Phyllis Allen (His Wife), Mack Swain (Foreman), Edna Purviance (Foreman's Daughter), Sydney…

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BIG FIX, THE

BIG FIX, THE (director: Jeremy Kagan; screenwriter: from the novel by Roger L. Simon/Roger L. Simon; cinematographer: Frank Stanley; editor: Patrick Kennedy; music: Bill Conti; cast: Richard Dreyfuss (Moses Wine),…

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PEOPLE LIKE US

PEOPLE LIKE US (director/writer: Alex Kurtzman; screenwriters: Roberto Orci/Jody Lambert; cinematographer: Salvatore Totino; editor: Robert Leighton; music: A. R. Rahman; cast: Chris Pine (Sam), Michelle Pfeiffer (Lillian), Elizabeth Banks (Frankie),…

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BIG LEAGUER

BIG LEAGUER (director: Robert Aldrich; screenwriters: Herbert Baker/from a story by John McNulty and Louis Morheim; cinematographer: William Mellor; editor: Ben Lewis; music: Alberto Colombo; cast: Edward G. Robinson (John…

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PERSEPOLIS

PERSEPOLIS (directors: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud; screenwriter: based on the graphic novels by Ms. Satrapi; animation coordinator: Christian Desmares; editor: Stéphane Roche; music: Olivier Bernet; with the voices of:…

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BIG SLEEP, THE

BIG SLEEP, THE (director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: William Faulkner/Leigh Brackett/Jules Furthman/from the novel by Raymond Chandler; cinematographer: Sid Hickox; editor: Christian Nyby; music: Max Steiner; cast: Humphrey Bogart (Philip Marlowe),…

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PHANTOM

PHANTOM (director: F. W. Murnau; screenwriters: Thea von Harbou/Hans Heinrich von Twardowski/from novel by Gerhart Hauptmann; cinematographers: Axel Graatkjaer/Theophan Ouchakoff; music: Robert Israel; cast: Alfred Abel (Lorenz Lubota), Grete Berger…

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PHILOMENA

PHILOMENA (director: Stephen Frears; screenwriters: Jeff Pope/Steve Coogan/ based on the book “The Lost Child of Philomena Lee” by Martin Sixsmith; cinematographer: Robbie Ryan; editor: Valerio Bonelli; music: Alexandre Desplat;…

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BLACK BIRD, THE

THE BLACK BIRD  (director/writer: David Giler; screenwriters: story by Don M. Mankiewitz and Gordon Cotler; cinematographer: Phil Lathrop; editors: Margaret Booth/Walter Thompson/Lou Lombardo; music: Jerry Fielding; cast: George Segal (Sam…

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