WHIRLPOOL OF FATE (LA FILLE DE L'EAU) (director: Jean Renoir; screenwriter: Pierre Lestringuez; cinematographer: Jean Bachelet; cast: Catherine Hessling (Virginia Gudule), Pierre Lestringuez (Jef, uncle), Harold Livingston (Georges Raynal), Pierre…
WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD (director/writer: Gregg Araki; screenwriter: based on the novel by Laura Kasischke; cinematographer: Sandra Valde-Hansen; music: Robin Guthrie/Harold Budd; cast: Shailene Woodley (Kat Connors), Eva Green…
WHITE SHEIK, THE (Sceicco bianco, Lo) (director/writer: Federico Fellini; screenwriter: Michelangelo Antonioni; cinematographer: Arturo Gallea; editor: Rolando Benedetti; music: Nino Rota; cast: Giulietta Massina (Cabiria), Alberto Sordi (Fernando Rivoli), Leopoldo…
WHOLE NINE YARDS, THE (director: Jonathan Lynn; screenwriter: Mitchell Kapner; cinematographer: David Franco; editor: Tom Lewis; cast: Bruce Willis (Jimmy Tudeski), Matthew Perry (Oz Oseransky), Rosanna Arquette (Sophie), Michael Clarke…
WHY WE FIGHT (director/writer: Eugene Jarecki; cinematographers: Étienne Sauret/May Ying Welsh; editor: Nancy Kennedy; music: Robert Miller; cast: Dwight Eisenhower, Sen. John McCain, Gore Vidal, Wilton Sekzer, Chalmers Johnson, Karen…
WILD AT HEART (director/writer: David Lynch; screenwriter: from the novel by Barry Gifford; cinematographer: Frederick Elmes; editor: Duwayne Dunham; music: Angelo Badalamenti; cast: Nicolas Cage (Sailor Ripley), Laura Dern (Lula…
WILD SIDE (director/writer: Donald Cammell; screenwriter: China Kong; cinematographer: Sead Mutarevic; editor: Frank Mazzola; music: Jon Hassell; cast: Christopher Walken (Bruno Buckingham), Steve Bauer (Tony), Anne Heche (Alex Lee/Johanna), Allen…
WIND, THE (director/writer: Victor Seastrom; screenwriters: Frances Marion/adapted from a story by Dorothy Scarborough; cinematographer: John Arnold; editor: Conrad A. Nervig; cast: Lillian Gish (Letty Mason), Lars Hanson (Lige), Montagu…
WINGS OF DESIRE (DER HIMMEL UBER BERLIN) (director/writer: Wim Wenders; screenwriter: Peter Handke; cinematographer: Henri Alekan; editor: Peter Przygodda; music: Jurgen Knieper; cast: Bruno Ganz (Damiel), Solveig Dommartin (Marion), Otto…
WINTER SOLDIER (director: Winterfilm Collective; cast: John Kerry; Runtime: 95; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Winterfilm Collective; New Yorker Films/Milestone Films; 1972) "Unsettling." Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz A long forgotten documentary…