MONGOL

MONGOL (director/writer: Sergei Bodrov; screenwriter: Arif Aliyev/from the works of Lev Gumilyov; cinematographers: Rogier Stoffers/Sergei Trofimov; editors: Valdís Óskarsdóttir/Zach Staenberg; music: Tuomas Kantelinen; cast: Tadanobu Asano (Temudjin), Honglei Sun (Jamukha),…

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MONSTER, THE

THE MONSTER (director/writer: Roland West; screenwriters: from the play by Crane Wilbur/Albert Kenyon/C. Gardner Sullivan/Willard Mack; cinematographer: Hal Mohr; editor: A. Carle Palm; cast: Lon Chaney (Dr. Ziska), Gertrude Olmstead…

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55 DAYS AT PEKING

55 DAYS AT PEKING (director: Nicholas Ray; screenwriters: from the book 55 Days At Peking by S. Edwards/Robert Hamer/Philip Yordan/Bernard Gordon; cinematographer: Jack Hildyard; editors: Robert Lawrence/Magdalena Paradell; music: Dimitri…

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8MM

  8MM (director: Joel Schumacher; screenwriter: Andrew Kevin Walker; cinematographer: Robert Elswit; editor: Mark Stevens; cast: Nicolas Cage (Tom Welles), Joaquin Phoenix (Max California), Catherine Keener (Amy Welles), James Gandolfini…

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MOONRISE KINGDOM

MOONRISE KINGDOM (director/writer: Wes Anderson; screenwriter: Roman Coppola; cinematographer: Robert Yeoman; editor: Andrew Weisblum; music: Alexandre Desplat; cast: Bruce Willis (Captain Sharp), Edward Norton (Scout Master Ward), Bill Murray (Mr.…

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MOROCCO

MOROCCO (director: Josef von Sternberg; screenwriters: from the book and play Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny/Jules Furthman; cinematographers: Lee Garmes/Lucien Ballard (uncredited); editor: S.K. Winston; music: Karl Hajos; cast: Gary…

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ABOVE AND BELOW

ABOVE AND BELOW (director/writer: Nicolas Steiner; cinematographer: Markus Nestroy; editor: Kaya Inan; music: John Gurtler, Jan Miserre, Lars Voges; cast: Edward “Lalo the Godfather” Cardenas, Cynthia “Cindy” Goodwin, Richard “Rick”…

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