THE COWARD (KAPURUSH) (director/writer: Satyajit Ray; screenwriter: story "Janaiko Kapurusher Kahini" by Premendra Mitra; cinematographer: Soumendu Roy; editor: Dulal Dutta; music: Satyajit Ray; cast: Soumitra Chatterjee (Amitabha Roy), Haradhan Bannerjee…

RAN (director/writer: Akira Kurosawa; screenwriter: based on William Shakespeare's play King Lear; cinematographers: Asakazu Nakai/Takao Saitô/Masaharu Ueda; editor: Akira Kurosawa; music: Tôru Takemitsu; cast: Tatsuya Nakadai (Lord Hidetora Ichimonji), Akira…

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;…

RATCATCHER (director/writer: Lynne Ramsay; cinematographer: Alwin Kuchler; editor: Lucia Zucchetti; cast: William Eadie (James), Tommy Flanagan (Da), Mandy Matthews (Ma), Lynne Ramsay, Jr. (Anne Marie), Michelle Stewart (Ellen), Leanne Mullen…

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…

READ MY LIPS (Sur mes lèvres) (director/writer: Jacques Audiard; screenwriter: Tonino Benacquista.; cinematographer: Matthieu Vadepied; editor: Juliette Welfing; music: Alexandre Desplat; cast: Vincent Cassel (Paul Angeli), Olivier Gourmet (Marchand), Olivier…

  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…

REBECCA (director/writer: Alfred Hitchcock; screenwriters: Robert E. Sherwood/Joan Harrison/Michael Hogan, Philip MacDonald/from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier; cinematographer: George Barnes; editor: Hal C. Kern; music: Franz Waxman; cast: Laurence…

DARJEELING LIMITED (director/writer: Wes Anderson; screenwriters: Roman Coppola/Jason Schwartzman; cinematographer: Robert Yeoman; editor: Andrew Weisblum; music: from the films of Satyajit Ray and Merchant Ivory; cast: Owen Wilson (Francis Whitman),…

RED BARRY (directors: Ford Beebe/Alan James; screenwriters: Norman S. Hall/Ray Trampe/Will Gould-comic strip; cinematographer: Jerome Ash; editors: Louis Sackin/Alvin Todd/Saul A. Goodkind; cast: Buster Crabbe (Red Barry), Frances Robinson (Mississippi),…