BORN IN ’45

BORN IN '45 (Jahrgang '45) (director/writer: Jürgen Böttcher; screenwriter: Klaus Poche; cinematographer: Roland Gräf ; editor: Helga Gentz; music: Wolf Biermann; cast: Monika Hildebrand (Lisa 'Li'), Rolf Römer (Alfred 'Al'),…

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LE PONT DES ARTS

LE PONT DES ARTS (THE BRIDGE OF ARTS) (director/writer: Eugene Green; cinematographer: Rafaël O'Byrne; editor: Jean-François Elie; music: Le Poême Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre; cast: Natacha Régnier (Sarah), Adrien Michaux…

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BREATHE

BREATHE (director: Andy Serkis; screenwriter: William Nicholson; cinematographer: Robert Richardson; editor: Masahiro Hirakubo; music: Nitin Sawhney; cast: Andrew Garfield (Robin Cavendish), Claire Foy (Diana Blacker), Tom Hollander (Bloggs Blacker /…

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PORTRAIT OF JASON

PORTRAIT OF JASON (director: Shirley Clarke; cinematographer: Jeri Sapanen; editor: Shirley Clarke; cast: Jason Holliday; Runtime: 107; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Shirley Clarke; Milestone; 1967) "This unscripted and uncompromising study…

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POTICHE

POTICHE (TROPHY WIFE) (director/writer: François Ozon; screenwriter: based on the play by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Grédy; cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux; editor: Laure Gardette; music: Philippe Rombi; cast: Catherine Deneuve…

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PRESSURE POINT

PRESSURE POINT (director/writer: Hubert Cornfield; screenwriters: S. Lee Pogostin/from the short story Fifty-Minute Hour by Robert Lindner; cinematographer: Ernest Haller; editor: Frederic Knudtson; music: Ernest Gold; cast: Sidney Poitier (Chief…

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