BOOKSMART

BOOKSMART (director: Olivia Wilde; screenwriters: Emily Halpern/Sarah Haskins/Susanna Fogel/Katie Silberman; cinematographer: Jason McCormick; editor: Jamie Gross; music: Dan "The Automator"; cast: Beanie Feldstein (Molly), Kaitlyn Dever (Amy), Victoria Ruesga(Ryan), Lisa…

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PLEDGE, THE

PLEDGE, THE (director: Sean Penn; screenwriters: Friedrich Dürrenmatt (book)/Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski; cinematographer: Chris Menges; editor: Jay Cassidy; cast: Jack Nicholson (Jerry Black), Benicio Del Toro (Toby Jay Wadenah),…

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POLAR

POLAR (director/writer/editor: Jacques Bral; screenwriter: from a book by Jean-Patrick Manchette "Morgue Pleine"/Jean-Paul Leca; cinematographers: Jacques Renoir/Jean-Paul Rosa Da Costa; editors: Anne Boissel/Noun Serra; cast: Jean-François Balmer (Eugene Tarpon), Sandra…

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POPI

POPI (director: Arthur Hiller; screenwriters: Les and Tina Pine; cinematographer: Andrew Laszlo; editor: Anthony Ciccolini; music: Dominic Frontiere; cast: Alan Arkin (Abraham/Popi), Rita Moreno (Lupe), Miguel Alejandro (Junior), Ruben Figueroa…

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POSSESSION

POSSESSION (director/writer: Neil LaBute; screenwriters: from the novel by A.S. Byatt/David Henry Hwang/Laura Jones; cinematographer: Jean-Yves Escoffier; editor: Claire Simpson; music: Gabriel Yared; cast: Gwyneth Paltrow (Maud Bailey), Aaron Eckhart…

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BUCCANEER, THE

THE BUCCANEER (director: Anthony Quinn; screenwriters: novel Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon/1938 screenplay by Harold Lamb/C. Gardner Sullivan/Jesse Lasky Jr./Jeanne McPherson/Edwin Justus Mayer; cinematographer: Loyal Griggs; editor: Archie Marshek;…

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