PICKUP ALLEY

PICKUP ALLEY (INTERPOL) (director: John Gilling; screenwriters: John Paxton/short story by A.J. Forrest; cinematographer: Ted Moore; editor: Richard Best; music: Richard Bennett; cast: Victor Mature (Charles Sturgis), Anita Ekberg (Gina…

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BLAZING SADDLES

BLAZING SADDLES (director/writer: Mel Brooks; screenwriters: from a story by Andrew Bergman/Norman Steinberg/Andrew Bergman/ Richard Pryor/Alan Uger; cinematographer: Joseph Biroc; editors: John C. Howard/Danford Greene; music: John Morris; cast: Cleavon…

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PIRATE RADIO

  PIRATE RADIO (aka: THE BOAT THAT ROCKED)   (director/writer: Richard Curtis; cinematographer: Danny Cohen; editor: Emma E. Hickox; cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman (the Count), Bill Nighy (Quentin), Rhys Ifans…

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BORN IN ’45

BORN IN '45 (Jahrgang '45) (director/writer: Jürgen Böttcher; screenwriter: Klaus Poche; cinematographer: Roland Gräf ; editor: Helga Gentz; music: Wolf Biermann; cast: Monika Hildebrand (Lisa 'Li'), Rolf Römer (Alfred 'Al'),…

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PLEASANTVILLE

PLEASANTVILLE (director/writer: Gary Ross; cinematographer: John Lindley; editor: William Goldenberg; cast: Tobey Maguire (David/Bud Parker), Jeff Daniels (Johnson), Joan Allen (Betty Parker), William H. Macy (George Parker), J.T. Walsh (Big…

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