PENNY SERENADE

PENNY SERENADE (director: George Stevens; screenwriters: Morris Ryskind/Martha Cheavens; cinematographer: Joseph Walker; editor: Otto Meyer; music: W. Franke Harling; cast: Cary Grant (Roger Adams), Irene Dunne (Julie Gardiner Adams), Edgar…

Continue ReadingPENNY SERENADE

BIG MIRACLE

BIG MIRACLE (director: Ken Kwapis; screenwriters: Jack Amiel/Michael Begler/based on Thomas Rose’s 1989 “Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World’s Greatest Non-Event”; cinematographer: John Bailey; editor: Cara Silverman;…

Continue ReadingBIG MIRACLE

PETULIA

PETULIA (director: Richard Lester; screenwriters: from John Haase's novel "Me and the Arch Kook Petulia"/Lawrence B. Marcus/Barbara Turner; cinematographer: Nicolas Roeg; editor: Antony Gibbs; cast: Julie Christie (Petulia Danner), George…

Continue ReadingPETULIA

BIRDMAN

BIRDMAN or (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (director/writer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu; screenwriters: Nicolás Giacobone/Alexander Dinelaris Jr./Armando Bo; cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki; editors: Douglas Crise/Stephen Mirrione; music: Antonio Sanchez; cast: Michael Keaton…

Continue ReadingBIRDMAN

BLACKBOARDS

BLACKBOARDS (Takhté siah) (director/writer: Samira Makhmalbaf; screenwriter: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; cinematographer: Ebrahim Ghafori; editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf; music: Mohammad Reza Darvishi; cast: Saeed Mohamadi (Saïd), Bahman Ghobadi (Reeboir), Behnaz Jafari (Halaleh), Rafat…

Continue ReadingBLACKBOARDS

PICCADILLY

PICCADILLY (director: E. A. Dupont; screenwriter: Arnold Bennett; cinematographer: Werner Brandes; editor: J.W. McConaughy; music: Neil Brand; cast: Anna May Wong (Shosho), Gilda Gray (Mabel Greenfield), Jameson Thomas (Valentine Wilmot),…

Continue ReadingPICCADILLY