COMFORT AND JOY (director/writer: Bill Forsyth; cinematographer: Chris Menges; editor: Michael Ellis; music: Mark Knopfler; cast: Bill Paterson (Alan 'Dicky' Bird), Eleanor David (Maddy), C.P. Grogan (Charlotte ), Patrick Malahide(Colin),…
RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (director: Norman Foster; screenwriters: Waldo Salt/based on the story "Rachel" by Howard Fast; cinematographer: Maury Gertsman; editor: Les Millbrook; music: Roy Webb; cast: Loretta Young (Rachel),…
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…
RAINBOW OVER TEXAS (director/writer: Frank McDonald; screenwriter: from a magazine story by Max Brand/Gerald Geraghty; cinematographer: Reggie Lanning; editor: Charles Craft; music: Gordon Forster/Morton Scott; cast: Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers),…
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),…
RAMPARTS OF CLAY (Remparts d'argile) (director/writer: Jean-Louis Bertuccelli; from the book Change at Shebika by Jean Duvignaud; cinematographer: Andréas Winding; editor: Francois Ceppi; cast: Leila Schenna (Rima, Young Woman), the…
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…
RARE EXPORT: A CHRISTMAS TALE (director/writer: Jalmari Helander; screenwriter: JalmanHelander; cinematographer: Mika Orasmaa; editor: Kimmo Taavila; music: Juri Seppa/Miska Seppa; cast: Onni Tommila (Pietari), Jorma Tommila (Rauno), Per Christian Ellefsen…
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…
RAW NERVE (director/writer: David A. Prior; screenwriter: Lawrence L. Simone; cinematographer: Andrew Parke; editor: Tony Malanowski; music: Greg Turner; cast: Glenn Ford (Captain Gavin), Traci Lords (Gina Clayton), Jan-Michael Vincent…