CHILD 44

CHILD 44 (director: Daniel Espinosa; screenwriters: Richard Price/based on the novel by Tom Rob Smith; cinematographer: Oliver Wood; editors: Pietro Scalia, Dylan Tichenor; music: Jon Ekstrand; cast: Tom Hardy (Leo…

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QUERELLE

QUERELLE (director/writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder; screenwriters: based on the novel Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet/Burkhard Driest; cinematographers: Xaver Schwarzenberger/Josef Vavra; editors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder/Juliane Lorenz; music: Peer Raben; cast:…

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CHRISTINE

CHRISTINE (director: Antonio Campos; screenwriter: Craig Shilowich; cinematographer: Joe Anderson; editor: Sofia Subercaseaux; music: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans; cast: Rebecca Hall (Christine), Michael C. Hall (George), Tracy Letts (Michael), Maria…

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QUIZ SHOW

QUIZ SHOW (director/producer: Robert Redford; screenwriter: Paul Attanasio/from the book Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin; cinematographer: Michael Ballhouse; editor: Stu Linder; music: Mark Isham;…

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RAGE

RAGE (director/writer: Sally Potter; cinematographer: Steve Fierberg; editor: Daniel Goddard; music: Fred Frith/Sally Potter; cast: Simon Abkarian (Merlin), Patrick J. Adams (Dwight Angel ), Riz Ahmed (Vijay), Bob Balaban (Mr.…

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RAISING ARIZONA

RAISING ARIZONA (director/writer: Joel Coen; screenwriter: Ethan Coen; cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld; editor: Michael R. Miller; cast: Nicolas Cage (H. I. McDonnough), Holly Hunter (Ed), Trey Wilson (Nathan Arizona, Sr.), John…

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COMIC, THE

THE COMIC (aka: BILLY BRIGHT) (director/writer: Carl Reiner; screenwriter: Aaron Ruben; cinematographer: W. Wallace Kelley; editor: Adrienne Fazan; music: Jack Elliott; cast: Dick Van Dyke (Billy Bright), Michele Lee (Mary…

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RANCHO NOTORIOUS

RANCHO NOTORIOUS (director: Fritz Lang; screenwriters: Daniel Taradash/from a Sylvia Richards novel "Gunsight Whitman"; cinematographer: Hal Mohr; editor: Otto Ludwig; cast: Marlene Dietrich (Altar Keane), Arthur Kennedy (Vern Haskell), Mel…

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