NO RESERVATIONS

  NO RESERVATIONS   director: Scott Hicks; screenwriter: Carol Fuchs/based on the screenplay "Mostly Martha" by Sandra Nettelbeck; cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh; editor: Pip Karmel; music: Philip Glass; cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones…

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ARARAT

ARARAT (director/writer/producer: Atom Egoyan; cinematographer: Paul Sarossy; editor: Susan Shipton; music: Mychael Danna; cast: Elias Koteas (Ali, actor playing Jevdet Bey), David Alpay (Raffi), Charles Aznavour (Edward Saroyan), Eric Bogosian…

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NOSTALGHIA

NOSTALGHIA (director/writer: Andrei Tarkovsky; cinematographer: Giuseppe Lanci; editor: Erminia Marani; cast: Oleg Jankovsky (Andrei Gortchakov), Erland Josephson (Domenico), Domiziana Giordano (Eugenia), Patrizia Terreno (Gortchakov's wife), Laura De Marchi (chambermaid), Delia…

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ARROWHEAD

ARROWHEAD (director/writer: Charles Marquis Warren; screenwriters: from a novel by W. R. Burnett "Adobe Walls"; cinematographer: Ray Rennahan; editor: Frank Bracht; music: Paul Sawtell; cast: Charlton Heston (Ed Bannon), Jack…

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A SENSE OF LOSS

A SENSE OF LOSS(director: Marcel Ophüls; cinematographer: Simon Edelstein; editor: Marion Kraft; cast: Bernadette Devlin (Herself), Ian Paisley (Himself); Runtime: 135; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Marcel Ophüls; Cinema 5; 1972-Switzerland/USA)…

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NO WAY OUT

NO WAY OUT (director: Roger Donaldson; screenwriters: Gregory Goodell/Robert Garland/based on the novel The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing ; cinematographer: John Alcott; editor: Neil Travis/John Hoy; music: Maurice Jarre…

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ASSASSIN, THE

THE ASSASSIN (NIE YIN NIANG) (director/writer: Hou Hsiao-Hsien; screenwriters: T'ien-wen Chu, Tien-Wen Chu, Cheng Ah, Hai Meng Hsieh; cinematographer: Mark Lee Ping-Bin; editors: Liao Ching-sung, Pauline Huang Chih-chia; music: Lim…

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A STRANGER IN TOWN

A STRANGER IN TOWN (director: Roy Rowland; screenwriters: Isobel Lennart/William Kozlenko; cinematographer: Sidney Wagner; editor: Elmo Veron; music: Daniele Amfitheatrof/Nathaniel Shilkret; cast: Frank Morgan (John Josephus Grant), Richard Carlson (Bill…

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