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…
AMARILLY OF CLOTHESLINE ALLEY(director: Marshall Neilan; screenwriters: Belle K. Maniates (novel)/Frances Marion; cinematographer: Walter Stradling; cast: Mary Pickford (Amarilly Jenkins), Norman Kerry (Gordon Phillips), William Scott (Terry McGowan), Kate Price…
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…
AMERICAN ANIMALS (director/writer: Bart Layton; screenwriter: ; cinematographer: Ole Bratt Birkeland; editors: Nick Fenton/Chris Gill; music: Anne Nikitin; cast: Barry Keoghan (Spencer Reinhard), Evan Peters(Blake Lipka), Jared Abrahamson (Eric Borsuk),…
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…
AMERICAN PSYCHO (director/writer: Mary Harron; screenwriters: based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis/Guinevere Turner; cinematographer: Andrzej Sekula; editor: Andrew Marcus; cast: Christian Bale (Patrick Bateman), Willem Dafoe (Donald Kimball),…
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…
AN ACTOR'S REVENGE (aka: REVENGE OF A KABUKI ACTOR) (aka: YUKINOJO HENGE) (director: Kon Ichikawa; screenwriters: Natto Wada/Daisuke Ito/Teinosuke Kinugasa/from the original story by Otokichi Mikami; cinematographer: Setsuo Kobayashi;…
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…
ANCHORS AWEIGH (director: George Sidney; screenwriter: from an idea by Natalie Marcin/Isobel Lennart; cinematographers: Robert Planck/Charles Boyle; editor: Adrienne Fazan; music: George Stoll; cast: Gene Kelly (Joe Brady), Frank Sinatra…