EL DORADO

EL DORADO (director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: from the book The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown/Leigh Brackett; cinematographer: Harold Rosson; editor: John M. Woodcock; music: Nelson Riddle; cast: John…

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ESTHER

ESTHER (director/writer: Amos Gitai; screenwriter: Stephan Levine; cinematographer: Henri Alekan; editor: Sheherazade Saadi; cast: Shmuel Wolf (beggar-narrator), Simone Benyamini (Esther), Zare Vartinyan (Ahasverus), Mohammed Bakri (Mordecai), Juliano Merr (Haman), David…

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EYES OF LAURA MARS

EYES OF LAURA MARS (director: Irvin Kershner; screenwriters: John Carpenter/Julian Barry/Mart Crowley/David Zelag Goodman/Joan Tewkesbury/from a story by John Carpenter; cinematographer: Victor J. Kemper; editor: Michael Kahn; music: Artie Kane;…

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FAUST

  FAUST (director: F. W. Murnau; screenwriters: Hans Kyser/from the play "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang Goethe/from the play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe; cinematographer: Carl Hoffmann;…

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FLIGHT

FLIGHT (director: Robert Zemeckis; screenwriter: John Gatins; cinematographer: Don Burgess; editor: Jeremiah O’Driscoll; music: Alan Silvestri; cast: Denzel Washington (Whip Whitaker), Don Cheadle (Hugh Lang), Kelly Reilly (Nicole Maggen), John…

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FOR PETE’S SAKE

FOR PETE'S SAKE (director: Peter Yates; screenwriters: Stanley Shapiro/ Maurice Richlin; cinematographer: Laszlo Kovacs; editor: Frank Keller; music: Artie Butler; cast: Barbra Streisand (Henry), Michael Sarrazin (Barbra Streisand), Estelle Parsons…

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