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:…
COMFORT AND JOY (director/writer: Bill Forsyth; cinematographer: Chris Menges; editor: Michael Ellis; music: Mark Knopfler; cast: Bill Paterson (Alan 'Dicky' Bird), Eleanor David (Maddy), C.P. Grogan (Charlotte ), Patrick Malahide(Colin),…
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;…
CONTRACT KILLER (HITMAN) (SAT SAU JI WONG) (director: Tung Wei; screenwriters: Vincent Kok/Hung-Ka Chan/Kam Fu Cheng/dubbed version-Domonic Muir; cinematographer: Arthur Wong; editor: Cheung Ka Fai; music: Jussi Tegelman; cast: Jet…
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.…
COWARDS BEND THE KNEE (director/writer: Guy Maddin; cinematographer: Guy Maddin; editor: John Gurdebeke; cast: Guy Maddin (Darcy Fehr), Melissa Dionisio (Meta Augustus), Amy Stewart (Veronica/the Ghost), Tara Birtwhistle (Liliom Augustus),…
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…
CRIMES OF PASSION (director: Ken Russell; screenwriter: Barry Sandler; cinematographer: Dick Bush; editor: Brian Tagg; music: Rick Wakeman; cast: Kathleen Turner (Joanna Crane/China Blue), John Laughlin (Bobby Grady), Anthony Perkins…
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…
CRUISE, THE director: Bennett Miller; cinematographer: Bennett Miller; editor: Michael Levine; cast: Timothy "Speed" Levitch; Runtime: 76; Artisan Entertainment; 1998) "The documentary works so well because Speed's for real..."( Reviewed…