PROOF OF LIFE (director/writer: Taylor Hackford; screenwriters: Tony Gilroy/ inspired by the Vanity Fair article "Adventures in the Ransom Trade" by William Prochnau and by the book "Long March to…

THE CHALLENGE (director: Yuri Ancarani; cinematographers: Ancarani, Luca Nervegna, Jonathan Ricquebourg; editor: Ancarani; music: Lorenzo Senni, Francesco Fantini; cast: Khaled Al-Kaja, Nasser Al-Kaabi, Soul Riders Qatar, Khaled Al-Hammadi; running time:…

PSYCHO SANTA (director/writer: Peter Keir; music: Steve Sessions; cast: Jeff Samford (Ron), Michelle Samford (Jess), Jason Barnes (Santa), Eric Spudic (Josh), Krystal Stevenson (Alice); Runtime: 72; MPAA Rating: NR; producer:…

CHASING AMY director/writer/editor: Kevin Smith; cinematographer: David Klein; cast: Ben Affleck (Holden), Joey Lauren Adams (Alyssa), Jason Lee (Banky), Dwight Ewell (Hooper); Runtime: 113; Miramax Films; 1997) "Not everything worked…

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (director/writer: Paul Thomas Anderson; cinematographer: Robert Elswit; editor: Leslie Jones; music: Jon Brion; cast: Adam Sandler (Barry Egan), Emily Watson (Lena Leonard), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Dean Trumbell), Luis…

CHINATOWN (director: Roman Polanski; screenwriter: Robert Towne; cinematographer: John A. Alonzo; editor: Sam O'Steen; music: Jerry Goldsmith; cast: Jack Nicholson (J.J. Gittes), Faye Dunaway (Evelyn Mulwray), John Huston (Noah Cross),…

PURSUIT TO ALGIERS (director: Roy William Neill; screenwriter: Leonard Lee/from the story "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle; cinematographer: Paul Ivano; editor: Saul A. Goodkind; cast: Basil…

  CIMARRON (director: Wesley Ruggles; screenwriters: novel by Edna Ferber/Howard Estabrook; cinematographer: Edward Cronjager; editor: William Hamilton; music: Max Steiner; cast: Richard Dix (Yancey Cravat), Irene Dunne (Sabra Cravat), Estelle…

QUAI DES BRUMES, LES (PORT OF SHADOWS) (director: Marcel Carné; screenwriters: from the novel by Pierre MacOrlan/Jacques Prévert; cinematographer: E. Schufftan; editor: R. Le Hénaff; music: Maurice Jaubert; cast: Jean…

CLOCKWATCHERS( (director/writer: Jill Sprecher; screenwriter: Karen Sprecher; cinematographer: Jim Denault; editor: Syephen Mirrione; music: Mader; cast: Toni Collette (Iris), Parker Posey (Margaret), Lisa Kudrow (Paula), Alanna Ubach (Jane); Runtime: 96;…