BEYOND THE ROCKS

BEYOND THE ROCKS (director: Sam Wood; screenwriters: Jack Cunningham/based on the novel by Elinor Glyn; cinematographer: Alfred Gilks; music: Henny Vrienten, restored version; cast: Gloria Swanson (Theodora Fitzgerald), Rudolph Valentino…

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PATERSON

PATERSON (director/writer: Jim Jarmusch; cinematographer: Frederick Elmes; editor: Affonso Goncalves; music: Drew Kunin/Carter Logan/Jim Jarmusch; cast: Adam Driver (Paterson), Golshifteh Farahani (Laura), Barry Shabaka Henley (Doc), Chasten Harmon (Marie), William…

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MAHANAGAR

MAHANAGAR (THE BIG CITY) (director/writer: Satyajit Ray; screenwriter: from a story by Narendranath Mitra; cinematographer: Subrata Mitra; editor: Dulal Dutta; music: Satyajit Ray; cast: Madhabi Mukherjee (Arati), Anil Chatterjee (Subrata),…

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PAWN SACRIFICE

PAWN SACRIFICE (director: Edward Zwick; screenwriter: Steven Knight/story by Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Steven Knight; cinematographer: Bradford Young; editor: Steven Rosenblum; music: James Newton Howard; cast: Tobey Maguire…

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PENNY SERENADE

PENNY SERENADE (director: George Stevens; screenwriters: Morris Ryskind/Martha Cheavens; cinematographer: Joseph Walker; editor: Otto Meyer; music: W. Franke Harling; cast: Cary Grant (Roger Adams), Irene Dunne (Julie Gardiner Adams), Edgar…

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BIG RISK, THE

BIG RISK, THE (CLASSE TOUS RISQUES) (director/writer: Claude Sautet; screenwriters: Pascal Jardin/José Giovanni/from the novel by José Giovanni; cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet; editor: Albert Jurgenson; music: George Delerue; cast: Lino Ventura…

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BIG TROUBLE

BIG TROUBLE (director: John Cassavetes; screenwriters: Andrew Bergman aka Warren Bogle; cinematographer: Bill Butler; editors: Donn Cambern/Ralph E. Winters; music: Bill Conti; cast: Peter Falk (Steve Rickey), Alan Arkin (Leonard…

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