BEYOND, THE

BEYOND, THE (THE SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH) (E TU VIVRAI NEL TERRORE-L'ALDILA) (director/writer: Lucio Fulci; screenwriters: story by Dardano Sacchetti/Dardano Sacchetti/Giorgio Mariuzzo; cinematographer: Sergio Salvati; editor: Vincenzo Tomassi; music: Walter…

Continue ReadingBEYOND, THE

PASSIONS

PASSIONS (UVLECHENIYA) (director/writer: Kira Muratova; cinematographer: Gennady Karyuk; editor: Valentina Oleynik; music: Ludwig van Beethoven; cast: Svetlana Kolenda (Violetta), Renata Litvinova (Nurse Lila), Alexei Schevtshenko (Milashevski), Mikhail Demidov(Kasyanov), Vassily Rybakin…

Continue ReadingPASSIONS

BIG BOUNCE, THE

BIG BOUNCE, THE (director: George Armitage; screenwriter: Sebastian Gutierrez/from the novel by Elmore Leonard; cinematographer: Jeffrey Kimball; editors: Brian Berdan/Barry Malkin; music: George S. Clinton; cast: Owen Wilson (Jack Ryan),…

Continue ReadingBIG BOUNCE, THE

PATTON

PATTON (director: Franklin J. Schaffner; screenwriters: Francis Ford Coppola/Edmund H. North/based on the books Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and A Soldier's Story by Gen. Omar N. Bradley;…

Continue ReadingPATTON

PEEPING TOM

PEEPING TOM (director: Michael Powell; screenwriter: Leo Marks; cinematographer: Otto Heller; editor: Noreen Ackland; cast: Carl Boehm (Mark), Moira Shearer (stand-in murder victim, Vivian), Anna Massey (Helen Stephens), Maxine Audley…

Continue ReadingPEEPING TOM

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