RANDY RIDES ALONE (director: Harry Fraser; screenwriter: Lindsley Parsons; cinematographer: Archie Stout; editor: Carl Pierson; cast: John Wayne (Randy Bowers), Alberta Vaughn (Sally Rogers), George "Gabby Hayes" Hayes (Marvin Black/Matt…
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (director: Josef von Sternberg; screenwriters: from the novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor by Dostoyevsky/Joseph Anthony/S.K. Lauren; cinematographer: Lucien Ballard; editor: Richard Cahoon; music: R.H. Bassett/Louis Silvers;…
THE RAVEN (director/writer: James McTeigue; screenwriter: Ben Livingston/Hannah Shakespeare; cinematographer: Danny Ruhlmann; editor: Niven Howie; music: Lucas Vidal; cast: John Cusack (Edgar Allan Poe), Luke Evans (Detective Fields), Brendan Gleeson…
CRUISE, THE director: Bennett Miller; cinematographer: Bennett Miller; editor: Michael Levine; cast: Timothy "Speed" Levitch; Runtime: 76; Artisan Entertainment; 1998) "The documentary works so well because Speed's for real..."( Reviewed…
REAL GLORY, THE (director: Henry Hathaway; screenwriters: Jo Swerling/Robert Presnell, Sr./based on a novel by Charles L. Clifford; cinematographer: Rudolph Maté; editor: Daniel Mandell; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Gary Cooper…
DADDY LONGLEGS (aka: GO GET SOME ROSEMARY) (director/writer: Josh and Benny Safdie; cinematographers: Brett Jutkiewicz/Josh Safdie; editors: Josh and Benny Safdie/Brett Jutkiewicz/Ronald Bronstein; cast: Ronald Bronstein (Lenny), Sage Ranaldo…
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (director/writer: Nicholas Ray; screenwriters: Irving Shulman/Stewart Stern/from a Nicholas Ray story; cinematographer: Ernest Haller; editor:William H. Ziegler; cast: James Dean (Jim Stark), Natalie Wood (Judy), Sal…
THE DARK (director: Craig Pryce; screenwriter: Robert Cooper; cinematographer: Michael Storey; editor: Michael Todd; music: Alun Davies/Paul Zaza/Guy Zerafa; cast: Stephen McHattie(Dr. Gary "Hunter" Henderson), Neve Campbell (Deputy Jesse Donovan),…
RED CLIFF (CHI BI) (director/writer: John Woo; screenwriters: Khan Chan/Kuo Cheng/Sheng Heyu; cinematographers: Lu Yue/Zhang Li; editors: Angie Lam/Yang Hongu/ Robert A. Ferretti; music: Tarô Iwashiro; cast: Tony Leung (Zhou…
THE DARK TOWER (director: John Harlow; screenwriters: based on the play by George S. Kaufman & Alexander Woollcott/Reginald Purdell/Brock Williams; cinematographer: Otto Heller; editor: Terence Fisher; music: Jack Beaver; cast:…