THE PELICAN BRIEF (director/writer: Alan J. Pakula; screenwriter: from the novel by John Grisham; cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt; editors: Tom Rolf/Trudy Ship; music: James Horner; cast: Julia Roberts (Darby Shaw), Denzel…

BIG MIRACLE (director: Ken Kwapis; screenwriters: Jack Amiel/Michael Begler/based on Thomas Rose’s 1989 “Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event”; cinematographer: John Bailey; editor: Cara Silverman;…

PERFECT STRANGERS (director/writer: Larry Cohen; cinematographer: Paul Glickman; editor: Armond Lebowitz; music: Dwight Dixon; cast: Anne Carlisle (Sally), Brad Rijn (Johnny), Ann Magnuson (Malda), Stephen Lack (Lieutenant Burns), John Woehrle…

BIG STAMPEDE, THE  (director: Tenny Wright; screenwriters: story The Land Beyond the Law by Marion Jackson/Kurt Kempler; cinematographer: Ted D. McCord; editor: Frank Ware; cast: John Wayne (Deputy Sheriff John…

PETER AND THE FARM (director: Tony Stone; cinematographer: Nathan Corbin/Tony Stone; editor: Maxwell Paparella; cast: Peter Dunning; Runtime: 91; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Jake Perlin/Tony Stone/Andrew Adair/Melissa Auf der Maur;…

BIRDMAN or (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (director/writer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu; screenwriters: Nicolás Giacobone/Alexander Dinelaris Jr./Armando Bo; cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki; editors: Douglas Crise/Stephen Mirrione; music: Antonio Sanchez; cast: Michael Keaton…

PHANTOMS (director: Joe Chappelle; screenwriter: from the novel phantoms by Dean R. Koontz/Dean R. Koontz; cinematographer: Richard Clabaugh; editor: Randolph Bricker; music: David Williams; cast: Peter O’Toole (Dr Timothy Flyte),…

BLACKBOARDS (Takhté siah) (director/writer: Samira Makhmalbaf; screenwriter: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafori; editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; music: Mohammad Reza Darvishi; cast: Saeed Mohamadi (Saïd), Bahman Ghobadi (Reeboir), Behnaz Jafari (Halaleh), Rafat…

PIANO, THE (director/writer: Jane Campion; cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh; editor: Veronika Jenet; cast: Holly Hunter (Ada), Harvey Keitel (Baines), Sam Neill (Stewart), Anna Paquin (Flora), Geneviève Lemon (Nessie), Kerry Walker (Aunt…

BLACK SLEEP, THE (director: Reginald LeBorg; screenwriters: John C. Higgins/from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams; cinematographer: Gordon Avil; editor: John F. Schreyer; music: Les Baxter; cast: Basil Rathbone (Sir…