PARKER KANE

PARKER KANE (tv) (director: Steve Perry; screenwriter: Peter Lenkov; cinematographer: Jan De Bont; editor: Mark Helfrich; music: Jay Ferguson; cast: Jeff Fahey (Parker Kane), Amanda Pays(Sarah), Stellan Skarsgård (Van Adams),…

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BETTY BLUE

BETTY BLUE (37°2 le matin) (director/writer: Jean-Jacques Beineix; screenwriter: from the novel by Philippe Djian; cinematographer: Jean-François Robin; editors: Marie-Aimée Debril/Monique Prim; music: Gabriel Yared; cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade (Zorg), Béatrice…

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PASSING FANCY

PASSING FANCY (Dekigokoro) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriter: Tadao Ikeda; cinematographer: Hideo Shigehara/Shojiro Sugimoto; editor: Kazuo Ishikawa; cast: Takeshi Sakamoto (Kihachi), Nobuko Fushimi (Harue), Den Obinata (Jiro), Chouko Iida (Otome), Tomio…

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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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PATHER PANCHALI

PATHER PANCHALI (SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD) (director/writer: Satyajit Ray; screenwriter: based on the novel by Bibhuti Bannerji; cinematographer: Subrata Mitra; editor: Dulal Dutta; cast: Kanu Bannerjee (Hari), Karuna Bannerjee…

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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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PAYCHECK

PAYCHECK (director: John Woo; screenwriters: from a strory by Philip K. Dick/Dean Georgaris; cinematographer: Jeffrey L. Kimball; editors: Christopher Rouse/Kevin Stitt; music: John Powell; cast: Ben Affleck (Michael Jennings), Uma…

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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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