MIDNIGHT SPECIAL

MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (director/writer: Jeff Nicholls; cinematographer: Adam Stone; editor: Julie Monroe; music: David Wingo; cast: Michael Shannon (Roy), Joel Edgerton (Lucas), Kirsten Dunst (Sarah), Jaeden Lieberher (Alton), Adam Driver (Sevier),…

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MILKY WAY, THE

  MILKY WAY, THE (directors: Leo McCarey/Norman Z. McLeod (uncredited); screenwriters: Grover Jones/Frank Butler/Richard Connell/from play by Lynn Root and Harry Clork; cinematographer: Alfred Gilks; editor: LeRoy Stone; cast: Harold…

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MIRROR, THE

MIRROR, THE (ZERKALO) (director/writer: Andrei Tarkovsky; screenwriter: Alexander Misharin; cinematographer: Georgi Rerberg; editor: Lyudmila Feiginova; music: Eduard Artemyev; cast: Innokenty Smoktunovsky (narrator), Margarita Terekhova (Mother/Natalya), Ignat Daniltsev (Alexei/Ignat, age 12),…

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1492

1492: CONQUEST OF PARADISE(director/producer: Ridley Scott; screenwriter: Roselyne Bosch; cinematographer: Adrian Biddle; editors: William M. Anderson / Françoise Bonnot; music: Vangelis; cast: Gerald Despardieu (Christopher Columbus), Sigourney Weaver (Isabella of…

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MISSISSIPPI GRIND

MISSISSIPPI GRIND (director/writer: Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck;cinematographer: Andrij Parekh; editor: Anna Boden; music: Scott Bomar; cast: Ben Mendelsohn (Gerry), Ryan Reynolds (Curtis), Sienna Miller (Simone), Analeigh Tipton (Vanessa), Alfre Woodard (Sam),…

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22 JULY

22 JULY (director/writer: Paul Greengrass; screenwriter: based on “One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway” (2013) by journalist Asne Seierstad; cinematographer: Pål Ulvik Rokseth;…

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MODERNS, THE

MODERNS, THE (director/writer: Alan Rudolph; screenwriter: John Bradshaw; cinematographers: Jan Kiesser/Toyomichi Kurita; editors: Debra T. Smith/Scott Brock; cast: Keith Carradine (Nick Hart), Linda Fiorentino (Rachel Stone), John Lone (Bertram Stone),…

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