PARIAH

PARIAH (director/writer: Dee Rees; cinematographer: Bradford Young; editor: Mako Kamitsuna; cast: Adepero Oduye (Alike Freeman), Kim Wayans (Audrey Freeman), Charles Parnell (Arthur Freeman), Pernell Walker (Laura), Sahra Mellesse (Sharonda Freeman),…

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BESSIE

BESSIE (TV MOVIE) (director/writer: Dee Rees; screenwriters: story by Dee Rees & Horton Foote/Christopher Cleveland, Bettina Gilois/based on "Bessie: Empress of the Blues," a biography by Chris Albertson; cinematographer: Jeff…

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PARTY, THE

THE PARTY (director/writer: Blake Edwards; screenwriters: Tom & Frank Waldman; cinematographer: Lucien Ballard; editor: Ralph Winters; music: Henry Mancini; cast: Peter Sellers (Hrundi V. Bakshi), Claudine Longet (Michelle Monet),, Kathe…

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PASSIONS

PASSIONS (UVLECHENIYA) (director/writer: Kira Muratova; cinematographer: Gennady Karyuk; editor: Valentina Oleynik; music: Ludwig van Beethoven; cast: Svetlana Kolenda (Violetta), Renata Litvinova (Nurse Lila), Alexei Schevtshenko (Milashevski), Mikhail Demidov(Kasyanov), Vassily Rybakin…

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BEYOND THE SEA

BEYOND THE SEA (director: Kevin Spacey; screenwriters: Paul Attanasio/Lorenzo Carcaterra; cinematographer: Eduardo Serra; editor: Trevor Waite; music: Christopher Slaski; cast: Kevin Spacey (Bobby Darin), Kate Bosworth (Sandra Dee), John Goodman…

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PATTON

PATTON (director: Franklin J. Schaffner; screenwriters: Francis Ford Coppola/Edmund H. North/based on the books Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier's Story by Gen. Omar N. Bradley;…

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BIG CLOCK, THE

BIG CLOCK, THE (director: John Farrow; screenwriters: Jonathan Latimer/from the novel by Kenneth Fearing; cinematographer: John F. Seitz; editor: Gene Ruggiero; music: Victor Young; cast: Ray Milland (George Stroud), Charles…

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PEEPING TOM

PEEPING TOM (director: Michael Powell; screenwriter: Leo Marks; cinematographer: Otto Heller; editor: Noreen Ackland; cast: Carl Boehm (Mark), Moira Shearer (stand-in murder victim, Vivian), Anna Massey (Helen Stephens), Maxine Audley…

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