NUMBER, PLEASE?

NUMBER, PLEASE? (director/writer: Hal Roach/Fred Newmeyer; screenwriter: H.M. Walker; cinematographer: Walter Lundin; editor: ; music: Robert Israel; cast: Harold Lloyd (The Boy), Mildred Davis (The Girl), Roy Brooks (The Rival),…

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OBSESSION

OBSESSION ( director/writer: Brian De Palma; screenwriters: from an original story by De Palma & Paul Schrader/Paul Schrader; cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond; editor: Paul Hirsch; cast: Cliff Robertson (Michael Courtland), Geneviève…

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AUSTERIA

AUSTERIA (aka: THE INN) (director/writer: Jerzy Kawalerowicz; screenwriters: Tadeusz Konwicki/Julian Stryjkowski/from the novel by Julian Stryjkowski; cinematographer: Zygmunt Samosiuk; editor: Wieslawa Otocka; music: Leopold Kozlowski; cast: Wojciech Pszoniak (Josele), Franciszek…

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OFF LIMITS

OFF LIMITS (director/writer: Christopher Crowe; screenwriter: Jack Thibeau; cinematographer: David Gribble; editor: Doug Ibold; cast: Willem Dafoe (Sgt. Buck McGriff), Gregory Hines (Sgt. Albaby Perkins), Fred Ward (Sgt. Dix), Amanda…

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AVENTURERA

AVENTURERA (director: Alberto Gout; screenwriters: Álvaro Custodio/Carlos Sampelayo; cinematographer: Alex Phillips; editor: Alfredo Rosas Priego; music: Alberto Domínguez/Antonio Díaz Conde/Agustín Lara; cast: Ninón Sevilla (Elena Tejero), Tito Junco ("Pretty Boy"…

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OKLAHOMA CRUDE

OKLAHOMA CRUDE (director/writer: Stanley Kramer; screenwriter: Marc Norman; cinematographer: Robert Surtees; editor: Folmar Blangsted; music: Henry Mancini; cast: George C. Scott (Mase), Faye Dunaway (Lena Doyle), John Mills (Cleon Doyle),…

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A WOMAN OF PARIS

A WOMAN OF PARIS (director/writer: Charles Chaplin; cinematographers: Roland Totheroh/Jack Wilson; editors: Monta Bell/Charles Chaplin; music: Charles Chaplin/Louis F. Gottschalk (1976); cast: Edna Purviance (Marie St. Clair), Clarence Geldart (Marie's…

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OLEANNA

OLEANNA (director/writer: David Mamet; screenwriter: based on the play by David Mamet; cinematographer: Andrezej Sekula; editor: Barbara Tulliver; music: Rebecca Pidgeon; cast: William H. Macy (John), Debra Eisenstadt (Carol); Runtime:…

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BABY IT’S YOU

  BABY IT'S YOU (director/writer: John Sayles; screenwriter: story by Amy Robinson/Amy Robinson; cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus; editor: Sonya Polonsky; cast: Rosanna Arquette (Jill Rosen), Vincent Spano (Albert 'Sheik' Capadilupo), Joanna…

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