ANTICHRIST

ANTICHRIST (director/writer: Lars von Trier; cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle; editor: Anders Refn; music: Handel; cast: Willem Dafoe (He), Charlotte Gainsbourg (She), Storm Acheche Sahlstrom (Nic); Runtime: 109; MPAA Rating: NR;…

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ARABY

ARABY (ARABIA) (directors/writers: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa; cinematographer: Leonardo Feliciano; editors: Rodrigo Lima/Luiz Pretti; music: Francisco César; cast: Aristides de Sousa (Cristiano), Murilo Caliari (André), José Maria Amorim (Barreto), Gláucia…

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NO MORE ORCHIDS

NO MORE ORCHIDS (director/writer: Walter Lang; screenwriters: Gertrude Purcell/Keene Thompson/from a novel by Grace Perkins; cinematographer: Joseph August; editor: Jack Dennis; cast: Carole Lombard (Anne Holt), Walter Connolly (Bill Holt),…

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ARRIVAL

ARRIVAL (director: Denis Villeneuve; screenwriters: Eric Heisserer/based on Ted Chiang's 1998 novella Story of Your Life; cinematographer: Bradford Young; editor: Joe Walker; music: Johann Johannsson; cast: Amy Adams (Louise Banks),…

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ASCENT, THE

ASCENT, THE (Voskhozhdeniye) (director/writer: Larisa Shepitko; screenwriters: from the novel Sotnikov by Vasili Bykov/Yuri Klepikov; cinematographer: Vladimir Chukhnov/Pavel Lebeshev; music: Alfred Shnitke; cast: Boris Plotnikov (Sotnikov), Vladimir Gostyukhin (Rybak), Sergei…

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NOT AS A STRANGER

NOT AS A STRANGER (director/producer: Stanley Kramer; screenwriters: from the book by Morton C. Thompson/Edna Anhalt/Edward Anhalt; cinematographer: Franz Planer; editor: Frederic Knudtson; music: George Antheil; cast: Robert Mitchum (Lucas…

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