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…
NOT AS A STRANGER (director/producer: Stanley Kramer; screenwriters: from the book by Morton C. Thompson/Edna Anhalt/Edward Anhalt; cinematographer: Franz Planer; editor: Frederic Knudtson; music: George Antheil; cast: Robert Mitchum (Lucas…
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),…
NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE, THE (director/writer: Mary Harron; screenwriter: Guinevere Turner; cinematographer: Mott Hupfel; editor: Tricia Cooke; music: Mark Suozzo; cast: Gretchen Mol (Bettie Page), Chris Bauer (Irving Klaw), Lili Taylor…
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:…
NOWHERE IN AFRICA(Nirgendwo in Afrika) (director/writer: Caroline Link; screenwriter: from the novel by Stefanie Zweig; cinematographer: Gernot Roll; editor: Patricia Rommel; music: Niki Reiser; cast: Juliane Köhler (Jettel Redlich), Merab…
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…
OASIS (director/writer: Lee Chang-dong; cinematographer: Choi Yeong-taek; editor: Kim Hyun; music: Lee Jae-jin; cast: Sol Kyung-gu (Hong Jong-Du), Moon So-ri (Han Gong-Ju), Ahn Nae-sang (Hong Jong-Il), Ryoo Seung-wan (Hong Jong-Sae),…
ATONEMENT (director: Joe Wright; screenwriters: from a novel by Ian McEwan/Christopher Hampton; cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey; editor: Paul Tothill; music: Dario Marianelli; cast: James McAvoy (Robbie Turner), Keira Knightley (Cecilia Tallis),…
ODD MAN OUT (director: Carol Reed; screenwriters: F.L. Green/ Robert Cedric Sherriff/from book by Green; cinematographer: Robert Krasker; editor: Fergus McDonell; cast: James Mason (Johnny McQueen ), Robert Newton (Lukey),…