BACKTRACK

BACKTRACK (CATCHFIRE) (director/writer: Dennis Hopper; screenwriters: from a story by Rachel Kronstadt Mann/Anne Louise Baradach; cinematographer: Edward Lachman; editor: Wendy Phifer Mate; cast: Dennis Hopper (Milo), Jodie Foster (Anne Benton),…

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ONE MINUTE TO ZERO

ONE MINUTE TO ZERO (director: Tay Garnett; screenwriters: Andrew Solt/William Wister Haines/Milton Krims; cinematographer: William E. Snyder; editor: Robert Belcher; music: Victor Young; cast: Robert Mitchum (Col./Brig.Gen Steve Janowski), Ann…

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BAD MANNERS

  BAD MANNERS (director: Jonathan Kaufer; screenwriter: based on the play by David Gilman "Ghost in the Machine"; cinematographer: Denis Maloney; editor: Robin Katz; music: Ira Newborn; cast: David Strathairn…

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ON THE BOWERY

ON THE BOWERY (director: Lionel Rogosin/writer; cinematographer: Richard Bagley; editor: Carl Lerner; music: Charles Mills; cast: Ray Salyer, Gorman Hendricks, Frank Matthews; Runtime: 65; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Lionel Rogosin;…

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BAND OF OUTSIDERS

BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Bande à part) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriter: from the novel "Fool's Gold" by Dolores Hitchens; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editors: Françoise Collin/Dahlia Ezove/Agnès Guillemot; music: Michel Legrand; cast:…

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OPERA JAWA

OPERA JAWA (aka: REQUIEM FOR JAVA) (director/writer: Garin Nugroho; screenwriters: Armantono/based on “The Abduction of Sita,” from the Hindu epic “The Ramayana; cinematographer: Teoh Gay Hian; editor: Andhy Pulung; music:…

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BARBARY COAST

BARBARY COAST director: Howard Hawks; screenwriters: Charles MacArthur/Ben Hecht; cinematographer: Ray June; editor: Edward Curtiss; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Miriam Hopkins (Mary Rutledge), Edward G Robinson (Louis Chamalis), Joel McCrea…

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