QUERELLE

QUERELLE (director/writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; screenwriters: based on the novel Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet/Burkhard Driest; cinematographers: Xaver Schwarzenberger/Josef Vavra; editors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder/Juliane Lorenz; music: Peer Raben; cast:…

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QUIZ SHOW

QUIZ SHOW (director/producer: Robert Redford; screenwriter: Paul Attanasio/from the book Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin; cinematographer: Michael Ballhouse; editor: Stu Linder; music: Mark Isham;…

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CONTEMPT

CONTEMPT (Mépris, Le) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriters: novel A Ghost at Noon (Il Disprezzo) by Alberto Moravia; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editors: Agnès Guillemot/Lila Lakshmanan; music: Georges Delerue; cast: Brigitte Bardot…

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RAGE

RAGE (director/writer: Sally Potter; cinematographer: Steve Fierberg; editor: Daniel Goddard; music: Fred Frith/Sally Potter; cast: Simon Abkarian (Merlin), Patrick J. Adams (Dwight Angel ), Riz Ahmed (Vijay), Bob Balaban (Mr.…

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COVER GIRL

COVER GIRL (director: Charles Vidor; screenwriters: Virginia Van Upp/Marion Parsonnet/Paul Gangelin/based on a story by Erwin Gelsey; cinematographers: Rudolph Mate/Allen M. Davey; editor: Viola Lawrence; music: Carmen Dragon/Morris Stoloff; cast:…

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RAISING ARIZONA

RAISING ARIZONA (director/writer: Joel Coen; screenwriter: Ethan Coen; cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld; editor: Michael R. Miller; cast: Nicolas Cage (H. I. McDonnough), Holly Hunter (Ed), Trey Wilson (Nathan Arizona, Sr.), John…

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RANCHO NOTORIOUS

RANCHO NOTORIOUS (director: Fritz Lang; screenwriters: Daniel Taradash/from a Sylvia Richards novel "Gunsight Whitman"; cinematographer: Hal Mohr; editor: Otto Ludwig; cast: Marlene Dietrich (Altar Keane), Arthur Kennedy (Vern Haskell), Mel…

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CROWN HEIGHTS

CROWN HEIGHTS (director/writer: Matt Ruskin; cinematographer: Ben Kutchins; editor: Paul Greenhouse; music: Mark Degli Antoni; cast: Lakeith Stanfield (Colin Warner), Adriane Lenox (Grace), Nnamdi Asomugha(Carl 'KC' King ), Luke Forbes…

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