COCKFIGHTER

COCKFIGHTER (director: Monte Hellman; screenwriters: Charles Willeford/from a novel by Mr. Willeford novel; cinematographer: Néstor Almendros; editor: Lewis Teague; music: Michael Franks; cast: Warren Oates (Frank Mansfield), Harry Dean Stanton…

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QUERELLE

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:…

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QUIZ SHOW

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;…

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RAGE

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.…

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RAISING ARIZONA

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…

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RANCHO NOTORIOUS

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…

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