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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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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BANDITS

BANDITS (director: Barry Levinson; screenwriter: Harley Peyton; cinematographer: Dante Spinotti; editor: Stu Linder; cast: Bruce Willis (Joe Blake), Billy Bob Thornton (Terry Collins), Cate Blanchett (Kate Wheeler), Troy Garity (Harvey…

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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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BARBARA

BARBARA (director/writer: Christian Petzold; cinematographer: Hans Fromm; editor: Bettina Böhler; music: Stefan Will; cast: Nina Hoss (Barbara Wolff), Ronald Zehrfeld (Andre Reiser), Jasna Fritzi Bauer (Stella), Mark Waschke (Jörg), Rainer…

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BARRY LYNDON

BARRY LYNDON (director/writer: Stanley Kubrick; screenwriter: from the novel The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray; cinematographer: John Alcott; editor: Tony Lawson; music: Leonard Rosenman; cast: Ryan…

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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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BATTLE HYMN

BATTLE HYMN (director: Douglas Sirk; screenwriters: Vincent B. Evans/Charles Grayson; cinematographer: Russell Metty; editor: Russell F. Schoengarth; music: Frank Skinner; cast: Rock Hudson (Dean Hess), Anna Kashfi (En Soon Yang),…

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