ALMOST FAMOUS   (director/writer: Cameron Crowe; cinematographer: John Toll; editors: Saar Klein/Joe Hutshing; cast: Billy Crudup (Russell Hammond), Frances McDormand (Elaine Miller), Kate Hudson (Penny Lane), Jason Lee (Jeff…

NATHALIE GRANGER (director/writer: Marguerite Duras; cinematographer: Ghislain Cloquet; editor: Nicole Lubtchansky; cast: Jeanne Moreau (Other Woman), Lucía Bosé (Isabelle Granger), Luce Garcia Ville (Teacher), Gérard Depardieu (Salesman), Dionys Mascolo, Nathalie…

  A MAN AND A WOMAN (UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME) (director/writer: Claude Lelouch; screenwriter: Pierre Uytterhoeven; cinematographer: Claude Lelouch; editor: Claude Barrois; music: Francis Lai; cast: Anouk Aimee (Anne…

NEAR DARK (director/writer: Kathryn Bigelow; screenwriter: Eric Red; cinematographer: Adam Greenberg; editor: Howard E. Smith; music: Tangerine Dream; cast: Adrian Pasdar (Caleb Colton), Jenny Wright (Mae), Lance Henriksen (Jesse Hooker),…

AMATEURS, THE (aka: THE MOGULS) (director/writer: Michael Traeger; cinematographer: Denis Maloney; editor: Raúl Dávalos; music: Nic. tenBroek; cast: Jeff Bridges (Andy Sargentee), Tim Blake Nelson (Barney Macklehatton), William Fichtner (Otis),…

THE NEON DEMON (director: Nicolas Winding Refn; screenwriters: story by Nicolas Winding Refn/Mary Laws , Polly Stenham; cinematographer: Natasha Braier; editor: Matthew Newman; music: Cliff Martinez; cast: Elle Fanning (Jesse),…

  AMERICAN BEAUTY   (director: Sam Mendes; screenwriter: Alan Ball; cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall; editors: Tariq Anwar/Chris Greenbury; cast: Kevin Spacey (Lester Burnham), Annette Bening (Caroline Burnham),Thora Birch (Jane Burnham),…

NEVER SAY DIE (director: Elliott Nugent; screenwriters: from a play by William Post/Preston Sturges/Don Hartman/Frank Butler; cinematographer: Leo Tovar; editor: James Smith; music: Charles Bradshaw; cast: Bob Hope (John Kidley),…

AMERICAN SPLENDOR (director/writer: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini; screenwriter: from Joyce Brabner's comic book series Our Cancer Year; cinematographer: Terry Stacey; editor: Robert Pulcini; music: Mark Suozzo; cast: Paul…

NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL (director: Russell Rouse; screenwriter: Clarence Greene/from the book by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer; cinematographer: Edward Fitzgerald; editor: Grant Whytock; music: Josep Mullendore; cast: Broderick Crawford (Charlie…