RING, THE

RING, THE (director: Gore Verbinski; screenwriters: Ehren Kruger/from a novel by Kôji Suzuki/from the 1998 screenplay of Hiroshi Takahashi's "Ringu"; cinematographer: Bojan Bazelli; editor: Craig Wood; music: Hans Zimmer; cast:…

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DONOVAN’S REEF

DONOVAN'S REEF (director: John Ford; screenwriters: short story by Edmund Beloin/James Edward Grant/Frank S. Nugent; cinematographer: William H. Clothier; editor: Otho Lovering; music: Cyril Mockridge; cast: John Wayne (Michael Patrick…

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DREAMS

  DREAMS (aka: YUME)   (director/writer: Akira Kurosawa; cinematographers: Takao Saito/Mashaharu Ueda; editor: Tome Minami; music: Shinichiro Ikebe; cast: Akira Terao (Principal character in all but the first two sketches),…

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DROP ZONE

DROP ZONE (director: John Badham; screenwriters: story by Tony Griffin & Gus Manos/John Bishop/Peter Barsocchini; cinematographer: Roy H. Wagner; editor: Frank Morriss; music: Hans Zimmer; cast: Wesley Snipes ( Pete…

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DUNKIRK

DUNKIRK (director/writer: Christopher Nolan; cinematographer: Hoyte van Hoytema; editor: Lee Smith; music: Hans Zimmer; cast: Tom Hardy (Farrier), Kenneth Branagh (Commander Boltan), Mark Rylance (Mr. Dawson), Tom Glynn-Carney (Peter), Cillian…

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EAST OF SUMATRA

EAST OF SUMATRA (director: Budd Boetticher; screenwriter: from the novel by Louis L'Amour/Frank Gill Jr./Jack Natteford; cinematographer: Clifford Stine; editor: Virgil Vogel; music: Joseph Gershenson; cast: Jeff Chandler (Duke Mullane),…

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