OPERATION PETTICOAT

OPERATION PETTICOAT (director: Blake Edwards; screenwriters: Stanley Shapiro/Maurice Richlin/from a story suggested by Paul King and Joseph Stone; cinematographers: Russell Harlan/Clifford Stine; editors: Ted Kent/Frank Gross; music: David Rose; cast:…

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BALL OF FIRE

BALL OF FIRE (director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: Charles Brackett/Billy Wilder/based on the story "From A to Z" by Mr. Wilder and Thomas Monroe; cinematographer: Gregg Toland; editor: Dan Mandell; music:…

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ORIENTAL ELEGY

ORIENTAL ELEGY (director/writer: Aleksandr Sokurov; cinematographer: Aleksei Fyodorov; cast: Aleksandr Sokurov (Narrator); Runtime: 43; MPAA Rating: NR; Medici Arts; 1996-Russia/Japan- in Russian/Japanese with English subtitles) "Sokurov brilliantly delivers a poetical…

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BAND WAGON, THE

  BAND WAGON, THE (director: Vincente Minnelli; screenwriters: Betty Comden/Adolph Green; cinematographer: Harry Jackson; editor: Albert Akst; cast: Fred Astaire (Tony Hunter), Nanette Fabray (Lily Marton), Oscar Levant (Lester Marton),…

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OTHELLO

OTHELLO (The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice) (director/writer: Orson Welles; screenwriter: from the play by William Shakespeare; cinematographers: Anchise Brizzi/G.R. Aldo/Georges Fanto/Oberdan Trojani/Alberto Fusi/; editors: John Shepridge/Jean Sacha/Renzo…

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OUT OF SEASON

OUT OF SEASON (director/writer: Jevon O'Neill; cinematographer: Nic Morris; editors: Mark Aarons/Rodney Holland; music: Guy Farley; cast: Dennis Hopper (Harry Barlow), Gina Gershon (Eileen Phillips), David Murray (Simeon Guant), Jordan…

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