DRUNKBOAT

DRUNKBOAT (director/writer: Bob Meyer; screenwriters: play by Bob Meyer/Randy Buescher; cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler; editors: Mario Battistel/Michael Rafferty; music: Mark Ribof; cast: Jacob Zachar(Abe), John Malkovich(Mort Gleason), John Goodman (Fletcher), Skipp…

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EARLY SPRING

EARLY SPRING (SOSHUN) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriter: Kogo Noda; cinematographer: Yuharu Atsuta; editor: Yoshiyasu Hamamura; music: Kojun Saito; cast: Ryo Ikebe (Shoji Sugiyama), Chikage Awashima (Masako Sugiyama, his wife), Keiko…

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ELEGY OF A VOYAGE

    ELEGY OF A VOYAGE (Elegiya dorogi) (director/writer: Alexander Sokurov; cinematographer: Aleksandr Degtyaryov; editor: Sergei Ivanov; music: Frédéric Chopin/Gustav Mahler; cast: Alexander Sokurov (Narrator); Runtime: 48; MPAA Rating: NR;…

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ESTHER

ESTHER (director/writer: Amos Gitai; screenwriter: Stephan Levine; cinematographer: Henri Alekan; editor: Sheherazade Saadi; cast: Shmuel Wolf (beggar-narrator), Simone Benyamini (Esther), Zare Vartinyan (Ahasverus), Mohammed Bakri (Mordecai), Juliano Merr (Haman), David…

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FAT CITY

FAT CITY (director: John Huston; screenwriter: from the book by Leonard Gardner/Mr. Gardner; cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Marvin Hamlisch; cast: Stacy Keach (Bill Tully), Jeff Bridges…

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FIGHTING

FIGHTING (director/writer: Dito Montiel; screenwriter: Robert Munic; cinematographer: Stefan Czapsky; editors: Jake Pushinsky/Saar Klein; music: Jonathan Elias/David Wittman; cast: Channing Tatum (Shawn MacArthur), Terrence Howard (Harvey Boarden), Luis Guzmán (Martinez),…

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