CONTRACT KILLER (HITMAN) (SAT SAU JI WONG) (director: Tung Wei; screenwriters: Vincent Kok/Hung-Ka Chan/Kam Fu Cheng/dubbed version-Domonic Muir; cinematographer: Arthur Wong; editor: Cheung Ka Fai; music: Jussi Tegelman; cast: Jet…
RAGE IN HEAVEN (director: W.S. Van Dyke; screenwriters: based on a novel by James Hilton/Edward Chodorov/Christopher Isherwood/ Robert Thoeren; cinematographers: Oliver T. Marsh/George J. Folsey; editor: Harold F. Kress;…
COWARDS BEND THE KNEE (director/writer: Guy Maddin; cinematographer: Guy Maddin; editor: John Gurdebeke; cast: Guy Maddin (Darcy Fehr), Melissa Dionisio (Meta Augustus), Amy Stewart (Veronica/the Ghost), Tara Birtwhistle (Liliom Augustus),…
RAKE'S PROGRESS (NOTORIOUS GENTLEMAN) (director/writer: Sidney Gilliat; screenwriters: Frank Launder/story by Val Valentine; cinematographer: Wilkie Cooper; editor: Thelma Myers; music: William Alwyn; cast: Rex Harrison (Vivian Kenway), Lilli Palmer (Rikki…
CRIMES OF PASSION (director: Ken Russell; screenwriter: Barry Sandler; cinematographer: Dick Bush; editor: Brian Tagg; music: Rick Wakeman; cast: Kathleen Turner (Joanna Crane/China Blue), John Laughlin (Bobby Grady), Anthony Perkins…
RANDY RIDES ALONE (director: Harry Fraser; screenwriter: Lindsley Parsons; cinematographer: Archie Stout; editor: Carl Pierson; cast: John Wayne (Randy Bowers), Alberta Vaughn (Sally Rogers), George "Gabby Hayes" Hayes (Marvin Black/Matt…
CRUISE, THE director: Bennett Miller; cinematographer: Bennett Miller; editor: Michael Levine; cast: Timothy "Speed" Levitch; Runtime: 76; Artisan Entertainment; 1998) "The documentary works so well because Speed's for real..."( Reviewed…
THE RAVEN (director/writer: James McTeigue; screenwriter: Ben Livingston/Hannah Shakespeare; cinematographer: Danny Ruhlmann; editor: Niven Howie; music: Lucas Vidal; cast: John Cusack (Edgar Allan Poe), Luke Evans (Detective Fields), Brendan Gleeson…
DADDY LONGLEGS (aka: GO GET SOME ROSEMARY) (director/writer: Josh and Benny Safdie; cinematographers: Brett Jutkiewicz/Josh Safdie; editors: Josh and Benny Safdie/Brett Jutkiewicz/Ronald Bronstein; cast: Ronald Bronstein (Lenny), Sage Ranaldo…
REAL GLORY, THE (director: Henry Hathaway; screenwriters: Jo Swerling/Robert Presnell, Sr./based on a novel by Charles L. Clifford; cinematographer: Rudolph Maté; editor: Daniel Mandell; music: Alfred Newman; cast: Gary Cooper…