PHONE BOOTH

PHONE BOOTH (director: Joel Schumacher; screenwriter: Larry Cohen; cinematographer: Matthew Libatique; editor: Mark Stevens; music: Harry Gregson-Williams; cast: Colin Ferrell (Stu Shepard), Forest Whitaker (Capt. Ramey), Katie Holmes (Pamela McFadden),…

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BLACKHAT

BLACKHAT (director/writer: Michael Mann; screenwriter: Morgan Davis Foehl; cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh; editors: Joe Walker, Stephen Rivkin, Jeremiah O’Driscoll, Mako Kamitsuna; music: Harry Gregson-Williams, Atticus Ross, Leo Ross; cast: Chris Hemsworth…

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PICKUP ALLEY

PICKUP ALLEY (INTERPOL) (director: John Gilling; screenwriters: John Paxton/short story by A.J. Forrest; cinematographer: Ted Moore; editor: Richard Best; music: Richard Bennett; cast: Victor Mature (Charles Sturgis), Anita Ekberg (Gina…

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BLACK WIDOW

BLACK WIDOW (director/writer: Nunnally Johnson; screenwriter: from the novel Fatal Woman by Patrick Quentin; cinematographer: Charles G. Clarke; editor: Dorothy Spencer; music: Leigh Harline; cast: Ginger Rogers (Carlotta 'Lottie' Marin),…

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PIRATE RADIO

  PIRATE RADIO (aka: THE BOAT THAT ROCKED)   (director/writer: Richard Curtis; cinematographer: Danny Cohen; editor: Emma E. Hickox; cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman (the Count), Bill Nighy (Quentin), Rhys Ifans…

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BLUE SUNSHINE

BLUE SUNSHINE (director/writer: Jeff Lieberman; cinematographer: Don Knight; editor: Brian Smedley-Aston; music: Charles Gross; cast: Zalman King (Jerry Zipkin), Deborah Winters (Alicia Sweeney), Robert Walden (Dr. David Blume), Ray Young…

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BONJOUR TRISTESSE

BONJOUR TRISTESSE (director: Otto Preminger; screenwriter: from the novel by Francoise Sagan/Arthur Laurents; cinematographer: Georges Perinal; editor: Helga Cranston; music: Georges Auric; cast: Deborah Kerr (Anne Larson), David Niven (Raymond),…

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