COMFORT AND JOY (director/writer: Bill Forsyth; cinematographer: Chris Menges; editor: Michael Ellis; music: Mark Knopfler; cast: Bill Paterson (Alan 'Dicky' Bird), Eleanor David (Maddy), C.P. Grogan (Charlotte ), Patrick Malahide(Colin),…
RABBIT HOLE (director: John Cameron Mitchell; screenwriter: based on the play Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire/David Lindsay-Abaire; cinematographer: Frank G. DeMarco; editor: Joe Klotz; music: Anton Sanko; cast: Nicole Kidman…
CONTRACT KILLER (HITMAN) (SAT SAU JI WONG) (director: Tung Wei; screenwriters: Vincent Kok/Hung-Ka Chan/Kam Fu Cheng/dubbed version-Domonic Muir; cinematographer: Arthur Wong; editor: Cheung Ka Fai; music: Jussi Tegelman; cast: Jet…
RAGE IN HEAVEN (director: W.S. Van Dyke; screenwriters: based on a novel by James Hilton/Edward Chodorov/Christopher Isherwood/ Robert Thoeren; cinematographers: Oliver T. Marsh/George J. Folsey; editor: Harold F. Kress;…
COWARDS BEND THE KNEE (director/writer: Guy Maddin; cinematographer: Guy Maddin; editor: John Gurdebeke; cast: Guy Maddin (Darcy Fehr), Melissa Dionisio (Meta Augustus), Amy Stewart (Veronica/the Ghost), Tara Birtwhistle (Liliom Augustus),…
RAKE'S PROGRESS (NOTORIOUS GENTLEMAN) (director/writer: Sidney Gilliat; screenwriters: Frank Launder/story by Val Valentine; cinematographer: Wilkie Cooper; editor: Thelma Myers; music: William Alwyn; cast: Rex Harrison (Vivian Kenway), Lilli Palmer (Rikki…
CRIMES OF PASSION (director: Ken Russell; screenwriter: Barry Sandler; cinematographer: Dick Bush; editor: Brian Tagg; music: Rick Wakeman; cast: Kathleen Turner (Joanna Crane/China Blue), John Laughlin (Bobby Grady), Anthony Perkins…
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…
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…
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…