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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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 PARADE, THE

BIG PARADE, THE (director/writer: King Vidor; screenwriters: from the play by Joseph Farnham/from the short story What Price is Glory? by Laurence Stallings/Harry Behn; cinematographers: John Arnold/Charles Van Enger; editor:…

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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 STORE, THE

BIG STORE, THE (director: Charles Reisner; screenwriters: story by Nat Perrin/Sid Kuller/Hal Fimberg/Ray Golden; cinematographer: Charles Lawton; editor: Conrad A. Nervig; music: Hal Borne; cast: Groucho Marx (Wolf J. Flywheel),…

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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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