BLUEBEARD

BLUEBEARD "It's a compromised film that tends to offend everyone but the Nazis." (director/writer: Edward Dmytryk; screenwriters: from the story by Ennio Di Concini/Ennio Di Concini/Maria Pia Fusco/Luciano Sacripanti; cinematographer:…

Continue ReadingBLUEBEARD

PIRATES

PIRATES (director/writer: Roman Polanski; screenwriters: Gerard Brach/John Brownjohn; cinematographer: Witold Sobocinski; editors: Herve de Luze/William Reynolds; music: Philippe Sarde; cast: Walter Matthau(Capt Thomas Bartholomew Red), Damien Thomas (Don Alfonso), Charlotte…

Continue ReadingPIRATES

BODY AND SOUL

BODY AND SOUL (director: Robert Rossen; screenwriter: Abraham Polonsky; cinematographer: James Wong Howe; editor: Robert Parrish; music: Edward Heyman; cast: John Garfield (Charlie Davis), Lilli Palmer (Peg Born), Anne Revere…

Continue ReadingBODY AND SOUL

PLAINSMAN, THE

PLAINSMAN, THE (director: Cecil B. DeMille; screenwriters: Waldemar Young/Harold Lamb/Lynn Riggs/inspired by stories by Courtney Ryley Cooper and Frank J. Wilstach's book Wild Bill Hickok, the Prince of Pistoleers (1926);…

Continue ReadingPLAINSMAN, THE

BORDER FEUD

BORDER FEUD (director: Ray Taylor; screenwriters: Patricia Harper/novel by Joseph O'Donnell; cinematographer: Milford Anderson; editor: Joe Gluck; cast: Al 'Lash' La Rue (Cheyenne Davis), Al 'Fuzzy' St. John(Sheriff Fuzzy Q.…

Continue ReadingBORDER FEUD

PLEASE GIVE

PLEASE GIVE (director/writer: Nicole Holofcener; cinematographer: Yaron Orbach; editor: Robert Frazen; music: Marcelo Zarvos; cast: Catherine Keener (Kate), Amanda Peet (Mary), Oliver Platt (Alex), Rebecca Hall (Rebecca), Ann Morgan Guilbert…

Continue ReadingPLEASE GIVE

BOY

BOY (SHONEN) (director: Nagisa Oshima; screenwriter: Tsutomu Tamura; cinematographers: Seizo Sengen/Yasuhiro Yoshioka; editors: Sueko Siraishi/Keiichi Uraoka; music: Hikaru Hayashi; cast: Fumio Watanabe (Takeo Omura, the father), Akiko Koyama (Takeko Taniguchi,…

Continue ReadingBOY

POINT BLANK

POINT BLANK (director: John Boorman; screenwriters: from the book The Hunter by Richard Stark/Alexander Jacobs/David Newhouse/Rafe Newhouse; cinematographer: Philip H. Lathrop; editor: Henry Berman; music: Johnny Mandel; cast: Lee Marvin…

Continue ReadingPOINT BLANK

POOLHALL JUNKIES

POOLHALL JUNKIES (director/writer: Mars Callahan; screenwriter: Chris Corso; cinematographer: Robert Morris; editor: James E. Tooley; music: Richard Glasser/Charlie Terrell; cast: Mars Callahan (Johnny), Chazz Palminteri (Joe), Rod Steiger (Nick), Michael…

Continue ReadingPOOLHALL JUNKIES