NAMESAKE, THE

  THE NAMESAKE (director: Mira Nair; screenwriters: Sooni Taraporevala/based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri; cinematographer: Frederick Elmes; editor: Allyson Johnson; music: Nitin Sawhney; cast: Kal Penn (Gogol Ganguli), Tabu…

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ALTERED STATES

ALTERED STATES (director: Ken Russell; screenwriter: from the book by Padddy Chayefsky/Padddy Chayefsky; cinematographer: Jordan Cronenweth; editor: Eric Jenkins; music: John Corigliano; cast: William Hurt (Eddie Jessup), Blair Brown (Emily…

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NARGESS

NARGESS (director/writer: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad; screenwriter: Fereydoun Jeyrani; cinematographer: Hossein Djafarian; editor: Shirin Vahidi; music: Mohammad Reza Aligholi; cast: Atefeh Razavi (Nargess), Abolfazl Poorarab (Adel), Farimah Farjami (Afagh), Reza Karam Rezai…

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A MAN TO REMEMBER

  A MAN TO REMEMBER (director: Garson Kanin; screenwriters: Dalton Trumbo/Lester Cohen/Arthur Kober/Samuel Ornitz/story by Katharine Haviland-Taylor; cinematographer: J. Roy Hunt; editor: Jack Hively; music: Roy Webb; cast: Edward Ellis…

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NAZARIN

NAZARIN (director/writer: Luis Buñuel; screenwriters: from the book by Benito Perez Galdos/Julio Alejandro/Emilio Carballido; cinematographer: Gabriel Figueroa; editor: Carlos Savage; music: Rodolfo Halffter; cast: Francisco Rabal (Father Nazario), Marga López…

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AMÉLIE

AMÉLIE (Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain, Le) (director/writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet; screenwriter: Guillaume Laurant; cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel; editor: Hervé Schneid; music: Yann Tiersen; cast: Audrey Tautou (Amélie Poulain), Mathieu Kassovitz (Nino Quincampoix),…

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AMERICAN PERFEKT

AMERICAN PERFEKT(director/writer: Paul Chart; cinematographer: William Wages; editor: Michael Ruscio; cast: Fairuza Balk (Alice), Robert Forster (Jake), Amanda Plummer (Sandra), David Thewlis (Santini), Paul Sorvino (Frank), Chris Sarandon (Sammy), Joanna…

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