PATSY, THE (director/writer: Jerry Lewis; screenwriter: Bill Richmond; cinematographer: W. Wallace Kelley; editor: John Woodcock; music: Jack Brooks/David Raksin; cast: Jerry Lewis (Stanley Belt/Singers of the Trio), Ina Balin (Ellen…

BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER (director/writer: Christopher Bell; screenwriters: Alexander Buono/Tamsin Rawady; cinematographer: Alexander Buono; editor: Brian Singbiel; music: Dave Porter; Runtime: 93; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Mr. Buono/Ms. Rawady/Jim Czarnecki; Magnolia…

PECKER (director/writer: John Waters; cinematographer: Robert Stevens; editor: Janice Hampton; music: Stewart Copeland; cast: Edward Furlong (Pecker), Christina Ricci (Shelley), Lili Taylor (Rorey), Mary Kay Place (Joyce), Martha Plimpton (Tina),…

BIG MIRACLE (director: Ken Kwapis; screenwriters: Jack Amiel/Michael Begler/based on Thomas Rose’s 1989 “Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event”; cinematographer: John Bailey; editor: Cara Silverman;…

THE PERFECTION (director/writer: Richard Shepard; screenwriters: Nicole Snyder/Eric Charmelo; cinematographer: Vanja Cernjul; editor: David Dean; music: Paul Haslinger; cast: Allison Williams (Charlotte), Logan Browning (Elizabeth), Steven Weber (Anton), Alaina Huffman…

BIG STAMPEDE, THE  (director: Tenny Wright; screenwriters: story The Land Beyond the Law by Marion Jackson/Kurt Kempler; cinematographer: Ted D. McCord; editor: Frank Ware; cast: John Wayne (Deputy Sheriff John…

PERSONS UNKNOWN (TV) (director: George Hickenlooper; screenwriter: Craig Smith; cinematographer: Richard Crudo; editor: Suzanne Pettit; music: Ed Tomney; cast: Joe Mantegna (Jim Holland), Kelly Lynch (Amanda), Naomi Watts (Molly), J.T.…

BIRDMAN or (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (director/writer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu; screenwriters: Nicolás Giacobone/Alexander Dinelaris Jr./Armando Bo; cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki; editors: Douglas Crise/Stephen Mirrione; music: Antonio Sanchez; cast: Michael Keaton…

THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (LE FANTOME DE LA LIBERTE) (director/writer: Luis Bunuel; screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriere; cinematographer: Edmond Richard; editor: Helene Plemianikov; cast: Michel Piccoli (Second Prefect), Julien Bertheau (First Prefect),…

BLACKBOARDS (Takhté siah) (director/writer: Samira Makhmalbaf; screenwriter: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafori; editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; music: Mohammad Reza Darvishi; cast: Saeed Mohamadi (Saïd), Bahman Ghobadi (Reeboir), Behnaz Jafari (Halaleh), Rafat…