NAYAKAN (aka: VELU NAYAKAN) (director/writer: Mani Ratnam; cinematographer: P.C. Sreeram; music: Illaya Raja; cast: Kamal Hassan (Velu Nayakan), Saranya (Neela), Tinnu Anand (Ajit Singh), Janakraj (Selva, Nayakan's best friend), Ratnavelu…
ALL ABOUT EVE (director/writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; screenwriter: from the story "The Wisdom of Eve" by Mary Orr; cinematographer: Milton R. Krasner; editor: Barbara McLean; music: Alfred Newman;…
NEIGHBORS (director: Nicholas Stoller; screenwriters: Andrew J. Cohen/Brendan O'Brien; cinematographer: Brandon Trost; editor: Zene Baker; music: Michael Andrews; cast: Seth Rogen (Mac Radner), Zac Efron (Teddy Sanders), Rose Byrne (Kelly…
ALL THE MARBLES (THE CALIFORNIA DOLLS) (director: Robert Aldrich; screenwriter: Mel Frohman; cinematographer: Joseph Biroc; editors: Irving C. Rosenblum/Richard Lane; music: Frank De Vol; cast: Peter Falk (Harry Sears),…
NEVER CRY WOLF (director: Carroll Ballard; screenwriters: from the book by Farley Mowat/Curtis Hanson/Sam Hamm/Richard Kletter; cinematographer: Hiro Narita; editors: Michael Chandler/Peter Parasheles; music: Mark Isham; cast: Charles Martin Smith…
ALPHAVILLE (ALPHAVILLE, UNE ETRANGE AVENTURE DE LEMMY CAUTION) (director/writer: Jean-Luc Godard; screenwriter: from the novel by Paul Éluard "La Capitale de la douleur"; cinematographer: Raoul Coutard; editor: Agnès Guillemot;…
NEWS FROM HOME (director/writer: Chantal Akerman; cinematographers: Babette Mangolte/Jim Asbell; editor: Francine Sandberg; cast: Chantal Akerman (Voice); Runtime: 86; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Alain Dahan; Criterion Collection; 1976-France-French with English…
A MAN THERE WAS (TERJE VIGEN) (director/writer: Victor Seastrom; screenwriter: Gustaf Molander/from a Henrik Ibsen poem cinematographer: Julis Jaenzen; cast: August Falck (The Lord), Victor Seastrom (Terje Vigen), Edith Erastoff…
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (director/writer: Douglas McGrath; screenwriter: based on the novel by Charles Dickens; cinematographer: Dick Pope; editor: Lesley Walker; music: Rachel Portman; cast: Charlie Hunnam (Nicholas Nickleby), Jim Broadbent (Wackford…
AMELIA (director: Mira Nair; screenwriters: Ron Bass/Anna Hamilton Phelan/based on the books East to the Dawn by Susan Butler and The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell; cinematographer:…