QUARTET

QUARTET (directors: Ken Annakin, (segment "The Colonel's Lady"), Arthur Crabtree (segment "The Kite"), Harold French (segment "The Alien Corn"), Ralph Smart (segment "The Facts of Life"); screenwriters: R.C. Sherriff; W.…

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CHRISTMAS, AGAIN

CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (director/writer: Charles Poekel; cinematographer: Sean Price Williams; editor: Robert Greene; cast: Kentucker Audley (Noel), Craig Butta (Bluetooth Man), Maria Cantillo (Nighttime Customer), Hannah Gross (Lydia), Ben Webster (The…

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QUICK CHANGE

QUICK CHANGE (directors: Howard Franklin/Bill Murray; screenwriter: based on a Jay Cronley novel/Howard Franklin; cinematographer: Michael Chapman; editor: Alan Heim; music: Randy Edelman; cast : Bill Murray (Grimm), Geena Davis(Phyllis),…

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CLASH BY NIGHT

CLASH BY NIGHT (director: Fritz Lang; screenwriters: David Dortort/Alfred Hayes/from play by Cliffort Odets; cinematographer: Nick Musuraca; editor: George J. Amy; cast: Barbara Stanwyck (Mae Doyle D'Amato), Paul Douglas (Jerry…

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RABBIT HOLE

RABBIT HOLE (director: John Cameron Mitchell; screenwriter: based on the play Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire/David Lindsay-Abaire; cinematographer: Frank G. DeMarco; editor: Joe Klotz; music: Anton Sanko; cast: Nicole Kidman…

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CODE UNKNOWN

  CODE UNKNOWN (Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages)   (director/writer: Michael Haneke; cinematographer: Jürgen Jürges; editors: Andreas Prochaska/Karin Hartusch/Nadine Muse; cast: Juliette Binoche (Anne), Thierry Neuvic (Georges), Sepp…

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RAGE IN HEAVEN

  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;…

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COMIC, THE

THE COMIC (aka: BILLY BRIGHT) (director/writer: Carl Reiner; screenwriter: Aaron Ruben; cinematographer: W. Wallace Kelley; editor: Adrienne Fazan; music: Jack Elliott; cast: Dick Van Dyke (Billy Bright), Michele Lee (Mary…

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RAKE’S PROGRESS

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…

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CONVERSATION, THE

CONVERSATION, THE (director/writer: Francis Ford Coppola; cinematographer: Bill Butler; editor: Walter Murch; cast: Gene Hackman (Harry Caul), John Cazale (Stanley), Allen Garfield (William P. "Bernie" Moran), Frederic Forrest (Mark), Cindy…

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