BAD SLEEP WELL, THE

BAD SLEEP WELL, THE (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (director/writer: Akira Kurosawa; screenwriters: Shinobu Hashimoto/Eijirô Hisaita/Ryuzo Kikushima/Hideo Oguni/from the book by Ed McBain; cinematographer: Yuzuru Aizawa; editor: Akira Kurosawa; music:…

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ONLY SON, THE

ONLY SON, THE (HITORI MUSUKO) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriters: Tadao Ikeda/Masao Arata/short story by Yasujiro Ozu; cinematographer: Shojiro Sugimoto; music: Senji Itô; cast: Chishu Ryu (Professor Okubo), Tomoko Naniwa (Okubo's…

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BALLS OF FURY

BALLS OF FURY (director/writer: Robert Ben Garant; screenwriter: Thomas Lennon; cinematographer: Thomas Ackerman; editor: John Refoua; music: Randy Edelman; cast: Dan Fogler (Randy Daytona), Christopher Walken (Feng), George Lopez (Rodriguez),…

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OPEN CITY

OPEN CITY (ROMA, CITTA APERTA) (director: Roberto Rossellini; screenwriters: Federico Fellini/Sergio Amedei; cinematography: Ubaldo Arata; editor: Eraldo De Roma; cast: Anna Magnani (Pina), Aldo Fabrizi (Priest, Don Pietro), Marcello Pagliero…

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BANGER SISTERS, THE

BANGER SISTERS, THE (director/writer: Bob Dolman; cinematographer: Karl Walter Lindenlaub; editor: Aram Nigoghossian; music: Trevor Rabin; cast: Goldie Hawn (Suzette), Susan Sarandon (Lavinia/Vinnie), Geoffrey Rush (Harry), Erika Christensen (Hannah Kingsley),…

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ORPHAN

ORPHAN (director: Jaume Collet-Serra; screenwriters: David Johnson/from the story by Alex Mace; cinematographer: Jeff Cutter; editor: Tim Alverson; music: John Ottman; cast: Vera Farmiga (Kate Coleman), Peter Sarsgaard (John Coleman),…

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