BLACKOUT (CONTRABAND) (director/writer: Michael Powell; screenwriters: Emeric Pressburger/Brock Williams; cinematographer: Freddie Young; editor: John Seabourne; cast: Conrad Veidt (Capt. Anderson),Valerie Hobson (Mrs. Sorenson), Joss Ambler (Lieutenant Commander Ashton RNR), Raymond…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
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…
REAL GLORY, THE (director: Henry Hathaway; screenwriters: Jo Swerling/Robert Presnell, Sr./based on a novel by Charles L. Clifford; cinematographer: Rudolph Maté; editor: Daniel Mandell; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Gary Cooper…
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…
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (director/writer: Nicholas Ray; screenwriters: Irving Shulman/Stewart Stern/from a Nicholas Ray story; cinematographer: Ernest Haller; editor:William H. Ziegler; cast: James Dean (Jim Stark), Natalie Wood (Judy), Sal…