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Kids Return (1996 Japan 107mins) Source: JIS Prod Co: Office Kitano Prod: Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida, Yasushi Tsuge Dir, Scr, Ed: Takeshi Kitano Phot: Katsumi Yanagishima Art Dir: Shibata Hirohide Mus: Joe Hisaishi Cast: Masanobu Ando, Ken…

A Generation (1954 Poland 85mins) 35mm Source: Screensound Prod Co: Film Polski Prod: Aleksander Ford Dir: Andrzej Wajda Scr: Bohdan Czeszko Phot: Jerzy Lipman Ed: Czeslaw Raniszewski Art Dir: Roman Mann Mus: Andrzej Markowski Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska,…

“Life in the movie business is like the, is like the beginning of a new love affair; it’s full of surprises, and you’re constantly getting fucked.” (1) The alchemy of business…

They Who Step on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi, 1945 Japan 58mins) Source: FSR Prod. Co: Toho Prod: Motohiko Ito Dir, Scr, Ed: Akira Kurosawa, after a kabuki Phot: Takeo Ito Art…

The vast majority of documentary films made throughout the ’90s and produced independently of state-controlled Serbian television and sponsored by independent media, small production houses and distributors consistently displayed a…

The Early Days: “We tried to draw the line between the regime and the people” Boris Trbic: What were the most important independent documentary films produced in the early years…

Great Expectations (1946 UK 118mins) Source: CAC Prod Co: Cineguild Prod: Ronald Neame Dir: David Lean Scr: Lean, Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan Phot: Guy Green Ed: Jack Harris Art Dir: John Bryan Mus: Walther Goehr Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guiness, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt. Great…

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950 USA 95 mins) Where the Sidewalk Ends marks a specific moment in Otto Preminger’s directorial career. After the overwhelming success of Laura (1944), he made 11 more films before…