PARENTHOOD (director: Ron Howard; screenwriters: story by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel & Ron Howard/Lowell Ganz/Babaloo Mandel; cinematographer: Donald McAlpine; editors: Mike Hill/Daniel Hanley; music: Randy Newman; cast: Steve Martin…

BERNIE (director/writer: Richard Linklater; screenwriter: Skip Hollandsworth; cinematographer: Dick Pope; editor: Sandra Adair; music: Graham Reynolds; cast: Jack Black (Bernie Tiede), Shirley MacLaine (Marjorie Nugent), Matthew McConaughey (Danny Buck), Brady…

PARTY (director/writer: Manoel de Oliveira; screenwriter: Agustina Bessa-Luis; cinematographer: Renato Berta; editor: Valerie Loiseleux; cast: Michel Piccoli (Michel), Irene Papas (Irene), Leonor Silveira (Leonor), Rogerio Samora (Rogerio); Runtime: 95; Gemini…

THE BETTER 'OLE (director/writer: Chuck Reisner; screenwriters: Darryl F. Zanuck/from comics by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, play by Bairnsfather and Arthur Eliot/; cinematographer: Ed Du Par; editor: Ray Enright; music: Maurice…

PASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE (director/writer: Mel Gibson; screenwriter: Benedict Fitzgerald; cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel; editor: John Wright; music: John Debney; cast: Jim Caviezel (Jesus), Monica Bellucci (Mary Magdalene), Hristo Naumov…

BEYOND THE CLOUDS (Par-Dela Les Nuages) (director/writer: Michelangelo Antonioni; screenwriters: Tonino Guerra/Wim Wenders/from a story by Michelangelo Antonioni "The Bowling Alley on the Timber River"; cinematographer: Alfio Contini; editors: Claudio…

PATTERNS (director: Fielder Cook; screenwriter: Rod Serling/teleplay by Mr. Serling; cinematographer: Boris Kaufman; editors: Dave Kummins/Carl Lerner; cast: Van Heflin (Fred Staples), Everett Sloane (Walter Ramsey), Ed Begley (William Briggs),…

BIG CAT, THE (director: Phil Karlson; screenwriters: Morton Grant/Dorothy Yost/story by Morton Grant; cinematographer: W. Howard Greene; editor: Harvey Manger; music: Paul Sawtell; cast: Preston Foster (Tom Eggers), Lon McCallister…

PEDDLER, THE (DASTFOROUSH) (director/writer/editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; screenwriter: based on the story by Alberto Moravia; cinematographers: Homayun Payvar/Ali Reza Zarrindast/Mehrdad Fakhimi; music: Madjid Entezami; cast: Behzad Behzadpour, Zohreh Sarmadi, Esmail Soltanian,…

BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY (Große Mädchen weinen nicht) (director/writer: Maria von Heland; cinematographer: Roman Osin; editor: Jessica Congdon; music: Nicklas Frisk/Andreas Mattsson; cast: Anna Maria Mühe (Kati), Karoline Herfurth (Steffi),…