DROP, THE

THE DROP (director: Michael R. Roskam; screenwriter: Dennis Lehane/based on the Dennis Lehane short story “Animal Rescue”; cinematographer: Nicolas Karakatsanis; editor: Christopher Tellefsen; music: Marco Beltrami; cast: Tom Hardy (Bob…

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DUMPLIN’

DUMPLIN' (director: Anne Fletcher; screenwriter: Kristin Hahn/adapted from the novel by Julie Murphy; cinematographer: Elliot Davis; editor: Emma E. Hickox; music: Jake Monaco; cast: Danielle Macdonald (Willowdean Dickson/Dumplin'), Jennifer Aniston…

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EAST OF EDEN

EAST OF EDEN (director: Elia Kazan; screenwriters: from the novel by John Steinbeck/Paul Osborn; cinematographer: Ted McCord; editor: Owen Marks; music: Leonard Rosenman; cast: James Dean (Cal Trask), Julie Harris…

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EIGHT MEN OUT

EIGHT MEN OUT (director/writer: John Sayles; screenwriter: from the book by Eliot Asinof; cinematographer: Robert Richardson; editor: John Tintori; music: Mason Daring; cast: John Cusack (George 'Buck' Weaver), Clifton James…

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ERASERHEAD

ERASERHEAD(director/writer/editor: David Lynch; cinematographers: Frederick Elmes/Herbert Cardwell; cast: Jack Nance (Henry Spencer), Charlotte Stewart (Mary X), Allen Joseph (Mr. X), Judith Anna Roberts (Beautiful Girl Across the Hall), Jeanne Bates…

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EXODUS

EXODUS (director: Otto Preminger; screenwriters: Dalton Trumbo/from the novel by Leon Uris; cinematographer: Sam Leavitt; editor: Louis Loeffler; music: Ernest Gold; cast: Paul Newman (Ari Ben Canaan), Eva Marie Saint…

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FAHRENHEIT 9/11

FAHRENHEIT 9/11 (director/writer/producer: Michael Moore; cinematographer: Michael Desjarlais; editors: Kurt Engfehr/Christopher Seward/T. Woody Richman; music: Jeff Gibbs; Runtime: 116; MPAA Rating: R; producers: Jim Czarnecki/Kathleen Glynn; Lions Gate Films; 2004)…

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FESTIVAL

FESTIVAL (director: Murray Lerner; screenwriter: conceived by Murray Lerner; cinematographer: Francis Grumman, Murray Lerner, Stanley Meredith, George Pickow; editor: Howard Alk; Runtime: 87; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Murray Lerner; Janus:…

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