ELEGY OF A VOYAGE

    ELEGY OF A VOYAGE (Elegiya dorogi) (director/writer: Alexander Sokurov; cinematographer: Aleksandr Degtyaryov; editor: Sergei Ivanov; music: Frédéric Chopin/Gustav Mahler; cast: Alexander Sokurov (Narrator); Runtime: 48; MPAA Rating: NR;…

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ESTHER

ESTHER (director/writer: Amos Gitai; screenwriter: Stephan Levine; cinematographer: Henri Alekan; editor: Sheherazade Saadi; cast: Shmuel Wolf (beggar-narrator), Simone Benyamini (Esther), Zare Vartinyan (Ahasverus), Mohammed Bakri (Mordecai), Juliano Merr (Haman), David…

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FAT CITY

FAT CITY (director: John Huston; screenwriter: from the book by Leonard Gardner/Mr. Gardner; cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall; editor: Walter Thompson; music: Marvin Hamlisch; cast: Stacy Keach (Bill Tully), Jeff Bridges…

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FIGHTING

FIGHTING (director/writer: Dito Montiel; screenwriter: Robert Munic; cinematographer: Stefan Czapsky; editors: Jake Pushinsky/Saar Klein; music: Jonathan Elias/David Wittman; cast: Channing Tatum (Shawn MacArthur), Terrence Howard (Harvey Boarden), Luis Guzmán (Martinez),…

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FOOLISH WIVES

FOOLISH WIVES (director/writer: Erich von Stroheim; screenwriters: Marian Ainslee/Walter Anthony; cinematographers: William Daniels/Ben Reynolds; editor: Arthur Ripley; cast: Rudolph Christians (Andrew J. Hughes), Miss Du Pont (Helen Hughes), Maude George…

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