THE BIG SHAVE (director/writer: Martin Scorsese; cinematographer: Ares Demertzis; cast: Peter Bernuth; Runtime: 7; MPAA Rating: NR; Janus; 1968) "personal statement film." Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz Shot by recent NYU…

PERMANENT VACATION (director/writer/editor: Jim Jarmusch; cinematographers: James A. Lebavitz/Tom Di Cillo; cast: Leila Gastil (Leila), Chris Parker (Allie), John Lurie (Sax Player), Richard Boes (War veteran), Jane Fire (Nurse), Eric…

BIG WHEEL, THE (director: Edward Ludwig; screenwriter: Robert Smith; cinematographer: Ernest Laszlo; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Nathaniel W. Finston; cast: Mickey Rooney (Billy Coy), Spring Byington (Mary Coy), Lina Romay…

PHANTASM (director/writer: Don Coscarelli; Don Coscarelli; cinematographer: Don Coscarelli; editor: Don Coscarelli; music: Fred Myrow/Malcolm Seagrave; cast: Michael Baldwin (Mike Pearson), Bill Thornbury (Jody Pearson), Reggie Bannister (Reggie), Angus Scrimm…

THE BITCH (director/writer: Gerry O'Hara; screenwriter: Jackie Collins novel; cinematographer: Dennis Lewiston; editor: Eddy Joseph; music: Biddu; cast: Joan Collins (Fontaine Khaled), Michael Coby (Nico Cantafora/Antonio Cantafora), Ian Hendry (Thrush…

PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE (director/writer: Kenneth Bowser; cinematographers: Jarred Alterman/Jefferson Miller; editor: Pamela Scott Arnold; music: Phil Ochs; cast: Michael Ochs, Meeghan Ochs, Alice Ochs, Pete Seeger, Joan…

BLACK LEGION (director: Archie Mayo; screenwriters: story by Robert Lord, Abem Finkel, William Wister Haines; cinematographer: George Barnes; editor: Owen Marks; music: Bernhard Kaun; cast: Humphrey Bogart (Frank Taylor), Dick…

  PICKING UP THE PIECES (director: Alfonso Arau; screenwriter: Bill Wilson; cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro; editor: Michael R. Miller; cast: Woody Allen (Tex), Alfonso Arau (Doctor Amado), David Schwimmer (Father Leo…

BLACK ZOO (director: Robert Gordon; screenwriter: Herman Cohen/Aben Kandel; cinematographer: Floyd Crosby; editor: Michael Luciano ; music: Paul Dunlap; cast: Michael Gough (Michael Conrad), Jeanne Cooper (Edna Conrad), Rod Lauren…

PIERREPOINT (aka: THE LAST HANGMAN) (director: Adrian Shergold; screenwriters: Jeff Pope/Bob Mills; cinematographer: Danny Cohen; editor: Tania Reddin; music: Martin Phipps; cast: Timothy Spall (Albert Pierrepoint), Juliet Stevenson (Annie Pierrepoint),…