ALL ABOUT EVE

  ALL ABOUT EVE   (director/writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; screenwriter: from the story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr; cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner; editor: Barbara McLean; music: Alfred Newman;…

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ALL THE MARBLES

  ALL THE MARBLES (THE CALIFORNIA DOLLS) (director: Robert Aldrich; screenwriter: Mel Frohman; cinematographer: Joseph Biroc; editors: Irving C. Rosenblum/Richard Lane; music: Frank De Vol; cast: Peter Falk (Harry Sears),…

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ALPHAVILLE

  ALPHAVILLE (ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriter: from the novel by Paul Éluard "La Capitale de la douleur"; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editor: Agnès Guillemot;…

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NARC

NARC (director/writer: Joe Carnahan; cinematographer: Alex Nepomniaschy; editor: John Gilroy; music: Cliff Martinez; cast: Ray Liotta (Detective Lt. Henry R. Oak), Jason Patric (Detective Sgt. Nick Tellis), Lloyd Adams (Walter…

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A MAN THERE WAS

A MAN THERE WAS (TERJE VIGEN) (director/writer: Victor Seastrom; screenwriter: Gustaf Molander/from a Henrik Ibsen poem cinematographer: Julis Jaenzen; cast: August Falck (The Lord), Victor Seastrom (Terje Vigen), Edith Erastoff…

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NAYAK: THE HERO

NAYAK: THE HERO (director/writer: Satyajit Ray; cinematographer: Subrata Mitra; editors: Dulai Dutta/; music: Satyajit Ray; cast: Sharmila Tagore (Aditi), Uttam Kumar Chatterjee (Arindam Mukherjee), Premangshu Bose (Biresh), Ranjit Sen (Haren…

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AMELIA

  AMELIA (director: Mira Nair; screenwriters: Ron Bass/Anna Hamilton Phelan/based on the books “East to the Dawn” by Susan Butler and “The Sound of Wings” by Mary S. Lovell; cinematographer:…

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