MORE THAN A MIRACLE

  MORE THAN A MIRACLE (C’Era una Volta)(Cinderella, Italian Style) (director/writer: Francesco Rosi; screenwriters: Giuseppe Patrino Griffi/Tonino Guerra/Raffaele la Capria/story by Tonino Guerra; cinematographer: Pasquale de Santis; editor: Jolanda Benvenuti;…

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ACE OF ACES

ACE OF ACES (A BIGGER SPLASH) (director:  J. Walter Ruben; screenwriters: John Monk Saunders/H.W. Hanemann/from the story The Bird of Prey by Saunders; cinematographer: Henry Cronjager; editor: George Hively; music:…

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MOSCOW ELEGY

MOSCOW ELEGY (MOSKOVSKAYA ELEGIYA) (director/writer: Alexander Sokurov; cinematographer: Aleksandr Burov; cast: Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra, Alexander Sokurov (Narrator); Runtime: 90; MPAA Rating: NR; Facets; 1987-Russia-in Russian and Italian with English…

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (director: D. W. Griffith; screenwriters: John W. Considine Jr./Stephen Vincent Benet/Gerrit J. Lloyd; cinematographer: Karl Struss; editor: James Smith; cast: Walter Huston (Abraham Lincoln), Una Merkel (Ann Rutledge),…

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ABYSS, THE

THE ABYSS (L'OEVRE AU NOIR) (director/writer: Andre Delvaux; screenwriter: based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar; cinematographer: Charles Van Damme; editors: Albert Jurgenson/Jean-Pierre Resnard/Nadine Muse; music: Frédéric Devreese; cast: Sami…

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A CHRISTMAS TALE

  A CHRISTMAS TALE (Un conte de Noël)   (director/writer: Arnaud Desplechin; screenwriter: Emmanuel Bourdieu; cinematographer: Éric Gautier; editor: Laurence Briaud; music: Grégoire Hetzel; cast: Catherine Deneuve (Junon Vuillard), Jean-Paul…

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MR. NOBODY

MR. NOBODY (director/writer: Jaco Van Dormael; cinematographer: Christophe Beaucarne; editors: Susan Shipton/Matyas Veress; music: Pierre van Dormael; cast: Jared Leto (Nemo Nobody), Diane Kruger (Adult Anna), Sarah Polley (Adult Elise),…

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