ALL ABOUT EVE

  ALL ABOUT EVE   (director/writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; screenwriter: from the story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr; cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner; editor: Barbara McLean; music: Alfred Newman;…

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NEIGHBORS

NEIGHBORS (director: Nicholas Stoller; screenwriters: Andrew J. Cohen/Brendan O'Brien; cinematographer: Brandon Trost; editor: Zene Baker; music: Michael Andrews; cast: Seth Rogen (Mac Radner), Zac Efron (Teddy Sanders), Rose Byrne (Kelly…

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ALL THE MARBLES

  ALL THE MARBLES (THE CALIFORNIA DOLLS) (director: Robert Aldrich; screenwriter: Mel Frohman; cinematographer: Joseph Biroc; editors: Irving C. Rosenblum/Richard Lane; music: Frank De Vol; cast: Peter Falk (Harry Sears),…

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NEVER CRY WOLF

NEVER CRY WOLF (director: Carroll Ballard; screenwriters: from the book by Farley Mowat/Curtis Hanson/Sam Hamm/Richard Kletter; cinematographer: Hiro Narita; editors: Michael Chandler/Peter Parasheles; music: Mark Isham; cast: Charles Martin Smith…

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ALPHAVILLE

  ALPHAVILLE (ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriter: from the novel by Paul Éluard "La Capitale de la douleur"; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editor: Agnès Guillemot;…

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NEWS FROM HOME

NEWS FROM HOME (director/writer: Chantal Akerman; cinematographers: Babette Mangolte/Jim Asbell; editor: Francine Sandberg; cast: Chantal Akerman (Voice); Runtime: 86; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Alain Dahan; Criterion Collection; 1976-France-French with English…

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A MAN THERE WAS

A MAN THERE WAS (TERJE VIGEN) (director/writer: Victor Seastrom; screenwriter: Gustaf Molander/from a Henrik Ibsen poem cinematographer: Julis Jaenzen; cast: August Falck (The Lord), Victor Seastrom (Terje Vigen), Edith Erastoff…

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NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (director/writer: Douglas McGrath; screenwriter: based on the novel by Charles Dickens; cinematographer: Dick Pope; editor: Lesley Walker; music: Rachel Portman; cast: Charlie Hunnam (Nicholas Nickleby), Jim Broadbent (Wackford…

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AMELIA

  AMELIA (director: Mira Nair; screenwriters: Ron Bass/Anna Hamilton Phelan/based on the books “East to the Dawn” by Susan Butler and “The Sound of Wings” by Mary S. Lovell; cinematographer:…

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