ANIMAL CRACKERS

ANIMAL CRACKERS (director/writer: Victor Heerman; screenwriters: Bert Kalmar/Harry Ruby/Morrie Ryskind/from the play by Morrie Ryskind and George S. Kaufman; cinematographer: George Folsey; music: Bert Kalmar/Harry Rubycast: Groucho Marx (Captain Jeffrey…

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NIGHT ON EARTH

NIGHT ON EARTH (director/writer: Jim Jarmusch; cinematographer: Frederick Elmes; editor: Jay Rabinowitz; music: Tom Waits; cast: Winona Ryder (Corky), Gena Rowlands (Victoria Snelling), Giancarlo Esposito (YoYo), Armin Müller-Stahl (Helmut Grokenberger),…

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ANOMALISA

ANOMALISA (directors: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson; screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman/based on his play; cinematographer: Joe Passarelli; editor: Garret Elkins; music: Carter Burwell; voices: Jennifer Jason Leigh (Lisa), Tom Noonan (Everyone else),…

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ANYTHING ELSE

ANYTHING ELSE (director/writer: Woody Allen; cinematographer: Darius Khondji; editor: Alisa Lepselter; cast: Woody Allen (David Dobel), Jason Biggs (Jerry Falk), Christina Ricci (Amanda), Stockard Channing (Paula), Danny DeVito (Harvey), Jimmy…

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NINTH DAY, THE

NINTH DAY, THE (Neunte Tag, Der) (director: Volker Schlöndorff; screenwriters: Eberhard Görner/Andreas Pflüger/from the prison diaries of Father Jean Bernard; cinematographer: Tomas Erhart; editor: Peter R. Adam; music: Alfred Schnittke;…

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NO ESCAPE

NO ESCAPE (director/writer: John Erick Dowdle; screenwriter: Drew Dowdle; cinematographer: Leo Hinstin; editor: Elliot Greenberg; music: Marco Beltrami/Buck Sanders; cast:Owen Wilson (Jack Dwyer), Lake Bell (Annie Dwyer), Sterling Jerins (Lucy),…

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ARIZONIAN, THE

THE ARIZONIAN (director: Charles Vidor; screenwriter: writer and story The Peacemaker by Dudley Nichols; cinematographer: Harold Wenstrom; editor: Jack Hively; music: Roy Webb; cast: Richard Dix (Clay Tallant), Louis Calhern…

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