NOBODY WALKS

NOBODY WALKS (director/writer: Ry Russo-Young; screenwriter: Lena Dunham; cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt; editor: John Walter; music: Fall on Your Sword; cast: John Krasinski (Peter), Olivia Thirlby (Martine), Rosemarie DeWitt (Julie), India…

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ARABY

ARABY (ARABIA) (directors/writers: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa; cinematographer: Leonardo Feliciano; editors: Rodrigo Lima/Luiz Pretti; music: Francisco César; cast: Aristides de Sousa (Cristiano), Murilo Caliari (André), José Maria Amorim (Barreto), Gláucia…

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NO MORE EXCUSES

NO MORE EXCUSES (director/writer: Robert Downey; cinematographer: Stan Warnow; editor: Robert Soukis; cast: Robert Downey (Pvt. Stewart Thompson), Lawrence Wolf (President Garfield), Alan Abel (Himself), Prentice Wilhite (Charles Guiteau), Don…

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ARRIVAL

ARRIVAL (director: Denis Villeneuve; screenwriters: Eric Heisserer/based on Ted Chiang's 1998 novella Story of Your Life; cinematographer: Bradford Young; editor: Joe Walker; music: Johann Johannsson; cast: Amy Adams (Louise Banks),…

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ASCENT, THE

ASCENT, THE (Voskhozhdeniye) (director/writer: Larisa Shepitko; screenwriters: from the novel Sotnikov by Vasili Bykov/Yuri Klepikov; cinematographer: Vladimir Chukhnov/Pavel Lebeshev; music: Alfred Shnitke; cast: Boris Plotnikov (Sotnikov), Vladimir Gostyukhin (Rybak), Sergei…

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NO SUCH THING

NO SUCH THING (director/writer/music/producer: Hal Hartley; cinematographer: Michael Spiller; editor: Steve Hamilton; cast: Julie Christie (Doctor Anna), Sarah Polley (Beatrice), Robert John Burke (Monster), Helen Mirren (The Boss, TV Producer),…

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A SPECIAL DAY

A SPECIAL DAY (UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE) (director/writer: Ettore Scola; screenwriters: Ruggero Maccari/Maurizio Costanzo; cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis; editor: Raimondo Crociani; music: Armando Trovaioli; cast: Sophia Loren (Antonietta), Marcello Mastroianni (Gabriele),…

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NOTORIOUS

NOTORIOUS   (director: Alfred Hitchcock; screenwriter: Ben Hecht; cinematographer: Ted Tetzlaff; editor: Theron Warth; cast: Cary Grant (Devlin), Ingrid Bergman (Alicia Huberman), Claude Rains (Alex Sebastian), Louis Calhern (Capt. Prescott),…

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