NAMESAKE, THE

  THE NAMESAKE (director: Mira Nair; screenwriters: Sooni Taraporevala/based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri; cinematographer: Frederick Elmes; editor: Allyson Johnson; music: Nitin Sawhney; cast: Kal Penn (Gogol Ganguli), Tabu…

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ALVAREZ KELLY

ALVAREZ KELLY (director: Edward Dmytryk; screenwriters: Franklin Coen/Elliott Arnold (uncredited)/Dan Taradash (uncredited); cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald; editor: Harold F. Kress; music: John Green; cast: William Holden (Alvarez Kelly), Richard Widmark (Col.…

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NARGESS

NARGESS (director/writer: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad; screenwriter: Fereydoun Jeyrani; cinematographer: Hossein Djafarian; editor: Shirin Vahidi; music: Mohammad Reza Aligholi; cast: Atefeh Razavi (Nargess), Abolfazl Poorarab (Adel), Farimah Farjami (Afagh), Reza Karam Rezai…

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A MAN VANISHES

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,…

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NAZARIN

NAZARIN (director/writer: Luis Buñuel; screenwriters: from the book by Benito Perez Galdos/Julio Alejandro/Emilio Carballido; cinematographer: Gabriel Figueroa; editor: Carlos Savage; music: Rodolfo Halffter; cast: Francisco Rabal (Father Nazario), Marga López…

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AMEN

  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…

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AMERICAN PIE

  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…

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