ARRIVAL (director: Denis Villeneuve; screenwriters: Eric Heisserer/based on Ted Chiang's 1998 novella Story of Your Life; cinematographer: Bradford Young; editor: Joe Walker; music: Johann Johannsson; cast: Amy Adams (Louise Banks),…

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (director/writer: Bahman Ghobadi; screenwriter: Roxana Saberi/Hossein Mortezaeiyan; cinematographer: Turaj Aslani; editor: Hayedeh Safiyari; music: Mahdyar Aghajani/Ash Koosha; cast: Negar Shaghaghi (Negar), Ashkan Koshanejad (Ashkan),…

ASCENT, THE (Voskhozhdeniye) (director/writer: Larisa Shepitko; screenwriters: from the novel Sotnikov by Vasili Bykov/Yuri Klepikov; cinematographer: Vladimir Chukhnov/Pavel Lebeshev; music: Alfred Shnitke; cast: Boris Plotnikov (Sotnikov), Vladimir Gostyukhin (Rybak), Sergei…

  NORTH STAR, THE (aka: ARMORED ATTACK) (director: Lewis Milestone; screenwriter: from the story by Lillian Hellman/Lillian Hellman; cinematographer: James Wong Howe; editor: Daniel Mandell; music: Aaron Copland; cast: Anne…

A SPECIAL DAY (UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE) (director/writer: Ettore Scola; screenwriters: Ruggero Maccari/Maurizio Costanzo; cinematographer: Pasqualino De Santis; editor: Raimondo Crociani; music: Armando Trovaioli; cast: Sophia Loren (Antonietta), Marcello Mastroianni (Gabriele),…

NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT (aka: THE DEVIL"S UNDEAD/THE RESURRECTION SYNDICATE) (director: Peter Sasdy; screenwriter: from the novel Children of the Nightby John Blackburn/Brian Hayles; cinematographer: Ken Talbot; editor: Keith Palmer;…

A STRAIGHTFORWARD BOY (TOKKAN-KOZO) (director: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriters: Tadao Ikeda/story by Tadao Ikeda, Tadamoto Okubo, Kogo Noda and Yasujiro Ozu/O'Henry story "The Ransom of Red Chief"; cinematographer: Ko Nomura; cast:…

NOTTING HILL   (director: Roger Michell; screenwriter: Richard Curtis; cinematographer: Michael Coulter; editor: Nick Moore; cast: Julia Roberts (Anna Scott), Hugh Grant (William Thacker), Rhys Ifans (Spike), Gina McKee (Bella),…

AT ETERNITY'S GATE (director/writer: Julian Schnabel; screenwriters: Louise Kugelberg/Jean-Claude Carriere; cinematographer: Benoit Delhomme; editors: Louise Kugelberg/Julian Schnabel; music: Tatiana Lisovskaya; cast: Willem Dafoe (Vincent Van Gogh), Rupert Friend (Theo Van…

NUCINGEN HOUSE (LA MAISON NUCINGEN) (director: Raoul Ruiz; cinematographer: Inti Briones; editor: Beatrice Clerrico; music: Jorge Arriagada; cast: Jean-Marc Barr (William Henry James III), Elsa Zylberstein (Anne-Marie), Audrey Marnay (Léonore),…