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…
AMAZING MR. X, THE (aka: THE SPIRITUALIST) (director: Bernard Vorhaus; screenwriters: based on the story by Crane Wilbur/Muriel Roy Bolton/Ian McLellan Hunter; cinematographer: John Alton; editor: Norman Colbert; music: Alexander…
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 GANGSTER(director: Ridley Scott; screenwriters: Steven Zaillian/based on the New York magazine article The Return of Superfly by Mark Jacobson; cinematographer: Harris Savides; editor: Pietro Scalia; music: Marc Streitenfeld; cast:…
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…
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (director/writer: Michael Hoffman; cinematographer: Oliver Stapleton; editor: Garth Craven; cast: Kevin Kline (Nick Bottom), Michelle Pfeiffer (Titania), Rupert Everett (Oberon), Stanley Tucci (Puck), Calista Flockhart…
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 AMERICAN DREAM (aka: SEE YOU IN HELL, DARLING) (director: Robert Gist; screenwriters: from the novel by Norman Mailer/Mann Rubin; cinematographer: Sam Leavitt; editor: George Rohrs; music: Johnny Mandel; cast:…
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…
AND NOW MIGUEL (director/writer: Joseph Krumgold; screenwriter: from the book by Joseph Krumgold; music: Louis Applebaum; cast: Miguel Chavez; Runtime: 75; MPAA Rating: NR; Milestone; 1953) "It tells me all…