BIG MIRACLE

BIG MIRACLE (director: Ken Kwapis; screenwriters: Jack Amiel/Michael Begler/based on Thomas Rose’s 1989 “Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event”; cinematographer: John Bailey; editor: Cara Silverman;…

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PIMP

PIMP (director/writer: Christine Crokos; cinematographer: Rik Zang; editors: John Scott Cook, Todd Sandler; music: Alec Puro; cast: Keke Palmer (Wednesday), Vanessa Morgan (Destiny), Edi Gathegi (Kenny Wayne), Haley Ramm (Nikki),…

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BIRDMAN

BIRDMAN or (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (director/writer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu; screenwriters: Nicolás Giacobone/Alexander Dinelaris Jr./Armando Bo; cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki; editors: Douglas Crise/Stephen Mirrione; music: Antonio Sanchez; cast: Michael Keaton…

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PIRATES

PIRATES (director/writer: Roman Polanski; screenwriters: Gerard Brach/John Brownjohn; cinematographer: Witold Sobocinski; editors: Herve de Luze/William Reynolds; music: Philippe Sarde; cast: Walter Matthau(Capt Thomas Bartholomew Red), Damien Thomas (Don Alfonso), Charlotte…

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BLACK CASTLE, THE

THE BLACK CASTLE (director/writer: Nathan Juran; screenwriter: Jerry Sackheim; cinematographer: Irving Glassberg; editor: Russell Shoengarth; music: ; cast: Boris Karloff (Dr. Meissen), Stephen McNally (Count von Bruno), Richard Greene (Sir…

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PLAINSMAN, THE

PLAINSMAN, THE (director: Cecil B. DeMille; screenwriters: Waldemar Young/Harold Lamb/Lynn Riggs/inspired by stories by Courtney Ryley Cooper and Frank J. Wilstach's book Wild Bill Hickok, the Prince of Pistoleers (1926);…

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BLACK SUNDAY

  BLACK SUNDAY (Maschera del demonio, La) (director/writer: Mario Bava; screenwriters: Ennio De Concini/from the short story The Vij by Nikolai Gogol; cinematographer: Mario Bava/Ubaldo Terzano; editor: Mario Serandrei; music:…

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