PARADISE FOR THREE

PARADISE FOR THREE (ROMANCE FOR THREE) (director: Edward Buzzell; screenwriters: from the novel Three Men in the Snow by Erich Kästner/George Oppenheimer/Harry Ruskin/Dalton Trumbull/Gladys Unger/Irma von Cube; cinematographer: Leonard Smith/Charles…

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BESIEGED

BESIEGED (director/writer: Bernardo Bertolucci; screenwriters: Clare Peploe/story by James Lasdun; cinematographer: Fabio Cianchetti; Editor: Jacopo Quadri; cast: Thandie Newton (Shandurai), David Thewlis (Jason Kinsky), Claudio Santamaria (Agostino); Runtime: 94; Fine…

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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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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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PAT AND MIKE

PAT AND MIKE (director: George Cukor; screenwriters: Ruth Gordon/Garson Kanin; cinematographer: William H. Daniels; editor: George Boemler; music: David Raksin; cast: Spencer Tracy (Mike Conovan), Katharine Hepburn (Pat Pemberton), Aldo…

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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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