PARADISE NOW (director/writer: Hany Abu-Assad; screenwriter: Bero Beyer; cinematographer: Antoine Héberlé; editor: Sander Vos; cast: Kais Nashef (Said), Ali Suliman (Khaled), Lubna Azabal (Suha), Amer Hlehel (Jamal), Hiam Abbass (Said's…

BATTLE ROYALE (Batoru rowaiaru) (director: Kinji Fukasaku; screenwriters: from the novel by Koushun Takami/Kenta Fukasaku; cinematographer: Katsumi Yanagishima; editor: Hirohide Abe; music: Masamichi Amano; cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara (Shuya Nanahara -…

PARKER KANE (tv) (director: Steve Perry; screenwriter: Peter Lenkov; cinematographer: Jan De Bont; editor: Mark Helfrich; music: Jay Ferguson; cast: Jeff Fahey (Parker Kane), Amanda Pays(Sarah), Stellan Skarsgård (Van Adams),…

BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS, THE (director: Robert Florey; screenwriters: Curt Siodmak/from the story by William Fryer Harvey; cinematographer: Wesley Anderson; editor:Frank Magee; music: Max Steiner; cast: Robert Alda (Conrad Ryler),…

PASSING FANCY (Dekigokoro) (director/writer: Yasujiro Ozu; screenwriter: Tadao Ikeda; cinematographer: Hideo Shigehara/Shojiro Sugimoto; editor: Kazuo Ishikawa; cast: Takeshi Sakamoto (Kihachi), Nobuko Fushimi (Harue), Den Obinata (Jiro), Chouko Iida (Otome), Tomio…

BEAU TRAVAIL( director/writer: Claire Denis; screenwriters: from story by Herman Melville "Billy Budd"/Jean-Pol Fargeau; cinematographer: Agnès Godard; editor: Nelly Quettier; cast: Denis Lavant (Galoup), Michel Subor (Commanding Office Bruno Forestier),…

PATHER PANCHALI (SONG OF THE LITTLE ROAD) (director/writer: Satyajit Ray; screenwriter: based on the novel by Bibhuti Bannerji; cinematographer: Subrata Mitra; editor: Dulal Dutta; cast: Kanu Bannerjee (Hari), Karuna Bannerjee…

BEDEVILLED (director: Mitchell Leisen; screenwriter: Jo Eisinger/story by Jo Eisinger; cinematographer: Freddie Young; editor: Frank Clarke; music: William Alwyn; cast: Anne Baxter (Monica Johnson), Steve Forrest (Gregory Fitzgerald), Simone Renant…

PAYCHECK (director: John Woo; screenwriters: from a strory by Philip K. Dick/Dean Georgaris; cinematographer: Jeffrey L. Kimball; editors: Christopher Rouse/Kevin Stitt; music: John Powell; cast: Ben Affleck (Michael Jennings), Uma…

BEGUILED, THE (director: Donald Siegel; screenwriters: Grimes Grice/John B. Sherry/based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan; cinematographer: Bruce Surtees; editor: Carl Pingitore; music: Lalo Schifrin; cast: Clint Eastwood (Corporal John…