RUBY SPARKS (directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris; screenwriter: Zoe Kazan; cinematographer: Matthew Libatique; editor: Pamela Martin; music: Nick Urata; cast: Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks), Paul Dano (Calvin Weir-Fields), Annette Bening…

MANK (director: David Fincher; screenwriter: Jack Fincher; cinematographer: Erik Messerschmidt; editor: Kirk Baxter; music: Trent Reznor/Atticus Finch; cast: Lily Collins (Rita Alexander), Tuppence Middleton (Sara Mankiewicz), Gary Oldman (Herman J. Mankiewicz),…

TIMES SQUARE (director: Alan Moyle; screenwriters: story by Leanne Unger and Alan Moyle/Jacob Brackman; cinematographer: James A. Contner; editor: Tom Priestley; music: Blue Weaver; cast: Tim Curry (Johnny LaGuardia),  Trini…

MALINA (director/writer: Werner Schroeter; screenwriter: novel by Ingeborg Bachmann/Elfriede Jelinek; cinematographer: Elfi Mikesch; editor: Juliane Lorenz; music: Giacomo Manzoni; cast: Isabelle Huppert (unnamed woman),  Mathieu Carrière (Malina), Isolde Barth (Mother),…

REBECCA (director: Ben Wheatley; screenwriters: novel by Daphne Du Maurier, Jane Goldman, Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse; cinematographer: Laurie Rose; editor: Jonathan Amos; music: Clint Mansell; cast:  Lily James (Mrs. de…

SPELL (director: Mark Tonderai; screenwriter: Kurt Wimmer; cinematographer: Jacques Jouffret; editor: Sarah C. Reeves; music: Adriano Aponte//Ben Onoso; cast:  Omari Hardwick (Marquis T. Woods), Loretta Devine (Eloise), Lorraine Burroughs (Veora…

CARNIVAL STORY (director/writer: Kurt Neumann; screenwriters: Hans Jacoby/Dalton Trumbo/Malcolm Wilson/based on a story by Marcel Klauber & C.B. Williams; cinematographer: Ernest Haller; editor: Edward S. Haworth; music: Willy Schmidt-Gentner; cast: …

IDIOCRACY (director/writer: Mike Judge; screenwriter: story by Mike Judge/Etan Cohen; cinematographer: Tim Suhrstedt; editor: David Rennie; music: Theodore Shapiro; cast:  Luke Wilson (Joe Bauers),  Maya Rudolph (Rita),  Dax Shepard (Frito), …

FRIENDSGIVING (director/writer: Nicol Paone; cinematographer: Neil Shapiro; editor: Julie Cohen; music: Jessica Weiss; cast: Malin Akerman (Molly), Kat Dennings (Abby), Jane Seymour (Helen), Jack Donnelly (Jeff), Aisha Tyler (Lauren), Ryan…

ACUTE MISFORTUNE (director/writer: Thomas M. Wright; screenwriters: bio by Eric Jensen on the life of Adam Cullen; cinematographer: Stefan Duscio/Germain McMicking; editor: Luca Cappelli; music: Evelyn Ida Morris; cast: Daniel…