NOAH

NOAH (director/writer: Darren Aronofsky; screenwriter: Ari Handel; cinematographer: Matthew Libatique; editor: Andrew Weisblum; music: Clint Mansell; cast: Russell Crowe (Noah), Jennifer Connelly (Naameh), Ray Winstone (Tubal-Cain), Emma Watson (Ila), Anthony…

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ANTICHRIST

ANTICHRIST (director/writer: Lars von Trier; cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle; editor: Anders Refn; music: Handel; cast: Willem Dafoe (He), Charlotte Gainsbourg (She), Storm Acheche Sahlstrom (Nic); Runtime: 109; MPAA Rating: NR;…

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NOISE

NOISE (director/writer: Tony Spiridakis; screenwriters: from the book by Diana Ramsay/Lance Doty; cinematographer: Evan Estern; editor: Charly Bender; music: Paul Riggio; cast: Trish Goff (Joyce Chandler), Ally Sheedy (Charlotte Bancroft),…

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NORA PRENTISS

NORA PRENTISS (director: Vincent Sherman; screenwriters: Richard Nash/Jack Sobell/from an unpublished story by Paul Webster "The Man Who Died Twice"; cinematographer: James Wong Howe; editor: Owen Marks; cast: Ann Sheridan…

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ARABY

ARABY (ARABIA) (directors/writers: João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa; cinematographer: Leonardo Feliciano; editors: Rodrigo Lima/Luiz Pretti; music: Francisco César; cast: Aristides de Sousa (Cristiano), Murilo Caliari (André), José Maria Amorim (Barreto), Gláucia…

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NOSEY PARKER

NOSEY PARKER director/writer/editor: John O'Brien; cinematographer: David Parry; music: Nosey Parkers; cast: Natalie Picoe (Natalie Newman), George Lyford (George Lyford), Richard Snee (Richard Newman), Vida Martin (Vida), Fred Tuttle (Fred);…

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ARRIVAL

ARRIVAL (director: Denis Villeneuve; screenwriters: Eric Heisserer/based on Ted Chiang's 1998 novella Story of Your Life; cinematographer: Bradford Young; editor: Joe Walker; music: Johann Johannsson; cast: Amy Adams (Louise Banks),…

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NOTHING VENTURED

NOTHING VENTURED (NICHT OHNE RISIKO) (director/writer: Harun Farocki; screenwriter: Matthias Rajmann; cinematographer: Ingo Kratisch; editor: Max Reimann; Runtime: 50; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Harun Farocki; Cinema Guild; 2004-Germany-in German with…

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ASCENT, THE

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…

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