BROKEN STRINGS

BROKEN STRINGS (director: Bernard B. Ray; screenwriters: story by Bernard B. Ray/Carl Krusada; cinematographer: Max Stengler; editor: Fredric Bean; cast: Sybil Lewis (Grace Williams), Clarence Muse (Arthur Williams), Earl Morris…

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POTICHE

POTICHE (TROPHY WIFE) (director/writer: François Ozon; screenwriter: based on the play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy; cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux; editor: Laure Gardette; music: Philippe Rombi; cast: Catherine Deneuve…

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BULWORTH

BULWORTH (director/writer: Warren Beatty; screenwriters: Jeremy Pikser/based on a story by Beatty; cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro; editor: Robert C. Jones; cast: Warren Beatty (Sen. Jay Bulworth), Halle Berry (Nina), Oliver Platt…

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PRESSURE POINT

PRESSURE POINT (director/writer: Hubert Cornfield; screenwriters: S. Lee Pogostin/from the short story Fifty-Minute Hour by Robert Lindner; cinematographer: Ernest Haller; editor: Frederic Knudtson; music: Ernest Gold; cast: Sidney Poitier (Chief…

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CAFE SOCIETY

CAFE SOCIETY (director/writer: Woody Allen; cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro; editor: Alica Lepselter; music: Rodgers and Hart songs; cast: Jeannie Berlin (Rose Dorfman), Steve Carell (Phil Stern), Jesse Eisenberg (Bobby Dorfman), Blake…

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PRIMARY

PRIMARY (director: Robert Drew; cinematographers: Albert Maysles/Richard Leacock/Terrence McCartney Filgate; editors: D.A. Pennebaker/Richard Leacock; cast: Joseph Julian (Narrator), Senator Kennedy, Senator Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy; Runtime: 58; MPAA Rating:…

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CANYON PASSAGE

CANYON PASSAGE (director: Jacques Tourneur; screenwriters: from the novel by Ernest Haycox/Ernest Pascal; cinematographer: Edward Cronjager; editor: Milton Carruth; music: Hoagy Carmichael; cast: Dana Andrews (Logan Stuart), Brian Donlevy (George…

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PRINCESS CARABOO

PRINCESS CARABOO (director/writer: Michael Austin; screenwriter: John Wells; cinematographer: Freddie Francis; editor: George Akers; music: Richard Hartley; cast: Wendy Hughes (Mrs. Worrall), Jim Broadbent (Mr. Worrall), Phoebe Cates (Princess Caraboo/Mary…

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CARNAGE

CARNAGE (director: Roman Polanski; screenwriter: from the play The God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza/Yasmina Reza; cinematographer: Pawel Edelman; editor: Hervé de Luze; music: Alexandre Desplat; cast: Kate Winslet (Nancy…

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PRIVATE NUMBER

PRIVATE NUMBER (SECRET INTERLUDE) (director: Roy Del Ruth; screenwriters: Gene Markey/William Conselman/from the story by Cleves Kinkead /frpm the play Common Clay by Cleves Kinkead; cinematographer: Peverell Marley; editor: Allen…

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