ESTHER

ESTHER (director/writer: Amos Gitai; screenwriter: Stephan Levine; cinematographer: Henri Alekan; editor: Sheherazade Saadi; cast: Shmuel Wolf (beggar-narrator), Simone Benyamini (Esther), Zare Vartinyan (Ahasverus), Mohammed Bakri (Mordecai), Juliano Merr (Haman), David…

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FAT CITY

FAT CITY (director: John Huston; screenwriter: from the book by Leonard Gardner/Mr. Gardner; cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Marvin Hamlisch; cast: Stacy Keach (Bill Tully), Jeff Bridges…

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FIGHTING

FIGHTING (director/writer: Dito Montiel; screenwriter: Robert Munic; cinematographer: Stefan Czapsky; editors: Jake Pushinsky/Saar Klein; music: Jonathan Elias/David Wittman; cast: Channing Tatum (Shawn MacArthur), Terrence Howard (Harvey Boarden), Luis Guzmán (Martinez),…

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FIXER, THE

THE FIXER (director: John Frankenheimer; screenwriters: Dalton Trumbo/from the novel by Bernard Malamud; cinematographer: Marcel Grignon; editor: Henry Berman; music: Maurice Jarre; cast: Alan Bates (Yakov Bok), Carol White (Raisl…

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FOURTH WAR, THE

THE FOURTH WAR (director: John Frankenheimer; screenwriters: from the novel by Stephen Peters/Kenneth Ross; cinematographer: Gerry Fisher; editor: Robert F. Shugrue; music: Bill Conti; cast: Roy Scheider (Jack Knowles), Jurgen…

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