ARARAT

ARARAT (director/writer/producer: Atom Egoyan; cinematographer: Paul Sarossy; editor: Susan Shipton; music: Mychael Danna; cast: Elias Koteas (Ali, actor playing Jevdet Bey), David Alpay (Raffi), Charles Aznavour (Edward Saroyan), Eric Bogosian…

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NOI ALBINOI

NOI ALBINOI (director/writer: Dagur Kári; cinematographer: Rasmus Videbaek; editor: Daniel Dencik; music: Slowblow; cast: Tomas Lemarquis (Noi), Throstur Leo Gunnarsson (Kiddi Beikon), Elin Hansdottir (Iris), Anna Fridriksdottir (Lina, grandmother), Hjalti…

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ARROWHEAD

ARROWHEAD (director/writer: Charles Marquis Warren; screenwriters: from a novel by W. R. Burnett "Adobe Walls"; cinematographer: Ray Rennahan; editor: Frank Bracht; music: Paul Sawtell; cast: Charlton Heston (Ed Bannon), Jack…

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NORA

NORA (director/writer: Pat Murphy; screenwriter: Gerard Stembridge/based on the biography by Brenda Maddox; cinematographer: Jean-Francois Robin; editor: Pia Di Ciaula; cast: Ewan McGregor (James Joyce), Susan Lynch (Nora Barnacle), Peter…

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A SENSE OF LOSS

A SENSE OF LOSS(director: Marcel Ophüls; cinematographer: Simon Edelstein; editor: Marion Kraft; cast: Bernadette Devlin (Herself), Ian Paisley (Himself); Runtime: 135; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Marcel Ophüls; Cinema 5; 1972-Switzerland/USA)…

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NORTHWEST PASSAGE

NORTHWEST PASSAGE (director: King Vidor; screenwriters: Talbot Jennings/Laurence Stallings/based on the book by Kenneth Roberts; cinematographers: William V. Skall/Sidney Wagner; editor: Conrad A. Nervig; music: Herbert Stothart; cast: Spencer Tracy…

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ASSASSIN, THE

THE ASSASSIN (NIE YIN NIANG) (director/writer: Hou Hsiao-Hsien; screenwriters: T'ien-wen Chu, Tien-Wen Chu, Cheng Ah, Hai Meng Hsieh; cinematographer: Mark Lee Ping-Bin; editors: Liao Ching-sung, Pauline Huang Chih-chia; music: Lim…

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NOTHING SACRED

NOTHING SACRED (director: William Wellman; screenwriters: Ben Hecht/Ring Lardner Jr./Budd Schulberg/from the short story “Letter to the Editor” byJames H. Street; cinematographer: Howard Greene; editors: Hal Kern/James Newcom; music: Oscar…

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A STRANGER IN TOWN

A STRANGER IN TOWN (director: Roy Rowland; screenwriters: Isobel Lennart/William Kozlenko; cinematographer: Sidney Wagner; editor: Elmo Veron; music: Daniele Amfitheatrof/Nathaniel Shilkret; cast: Frank Morgan (John Josephus Grant), Richard Carlson (Bill…

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NOW AND FOREVER

NOW AND FOREVER (director: Henry Hathaway; screenwriters: Vincent Lawrence/Sylvia Thalberg/story Harry Bright by Jack Kirkland & Melville Baker; cinematographer: Harry Fischbeck; editor: Ellsworth Hoagland; music: Harry Revel/Mack Gordon; cast: Shirley…

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