NAYAKAN (aka: VELU NAYAKAN) (director/writer: Mani Ratnam; cinematographer: P.C. Sreeram; music: Illaya Raja; cast: Kamal Hassan (Velu Nayakan), Saranya (Neela), Tinnu Anand (Ajit Singh), Janakraj (Selva, Nayakan's best friend), Ratnavelu…
A MAN VANISHES (NINGEN JOHATSU) (director/writer: Shohei Imamura; screenwriter: Koji Numata/story by Akiyuki Nosaka; cinematographer: Kenji Ishiguro; editor: Matsuo Tanji; music: Toshiro Mayazumi; cast: Yoshie Hayakawa (Fiancee of Oshima Tadashi,…
NEIGHBORS (director: Nicholas Stoller; screenwriters: Andrew J. Cohen/Brendan O'Brien; cinematographer: Brandon Trost; editor: Zene Baker; music: Michael Andrews; cast: Seth Rogen (Mac Radner), Zac Efron (Teddy Sanders), Rose Byrne (Kelly…
AMEN (director/writer: Costa-Gavras; screenwriter: Jean-Claude Grumberg/from the play "The Deputy" by Rolf Hochhuth; cinematographer: Patrick Blossier; editor: Yannick Kergoat; music: Armand Amar; cast: Ulrich Tukur (Kurt Gerstein), Mathieu…
NEVER CRY WOLF (director: Carroll Ballard; screenwriters: from the book by Farley Mowat/Curtis Hanson/Sam Hamm/Richard Kletter; cinematographer: Hiro Narita; editors: Michael Chandler/Peter Parasheles; music: Mark Isham; cast: Charles Martin Smith…
AMERICAN PIE (director: Paul Weitz; screenwriter: Adam Herz; cinematographer: Richard Crudo; editor: Priscilla Nedd-Friendly; cast: Jason Biggs (Jim), Shannon Elizabeth (Nadia), Alyson Hannigan (Michelle), Chris Klein (Oz), Natasha Lyonne…
NEWS FROM HOME (director/writer: Chantal Akerman; cinematographers: Babette Mangolte/Jim Asbell; editor: Francine Sandberg; cast: Chantal Akerman (Voice); Runtime: 86; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Alain Dahan; Criterion Collection; 1976-France-French with English…
A MONSTER CALLS (director: J.A. Bayona; screenwriter: Patrick Ness/from the novel written by Ness/orinal idea by Siobhan Dowd; cinematographer: Oscar Faura; editors: Bernat Vilaplana, Jaume Marti; music: Fernando Velazquez; cast:…
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (director/writer: Douglas McGrath; screenwriter: based on the novel by Charles Dickens; cinematographer: Dick Pope; editor: Lesley Walker; music: Rachel Portman; cast: Charlie Hunnam (Nicholas Nickleby), Jim Broadbent (Wackford…
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (director: Otto Preminger; screenwriters: John D. Voelker/Wendell Mayes/from the book by Robert Traver; cinematographer: Sam Leavitt; editor: Louis Loeffler; music: Duke Ellington; cast: James Stewart…