99 ANGELA'S ASHES - good, but not great: FMcCourt's book, 30's-40's coming-of-age in Limerick Ireland poverty was too much for film; great casting thruout; dAParker EWatson RCarlyle JBreen
99 ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS - classical, gothic horror story (faltering mid-section) as econich/whole-earth concern, modern fairy-tale around brain-damaged young man; bWHamilton sEskiThomas dJThomas DBale JHurt
99 AMERICAN MOVIE - Americana; pdPSmith documents Wisconsin's MarkBorchardt's thrashing films into existence along with takes and interviews on family and friends and flashbacks of that life-long obsession.
99 BEST LAID PLANS - EXCELLENT; love story played (shaggy-dog style) as skam turning on presumed wealthy inheritance; misleads, skews, off-the-wall etc; sTGriffin dMBarker ANivola RWitherspoon JBrolin
99 BEYOND THE MAT - good zeitgeist documentary on cruelly-demanding professional wrestling; live and behind the scenes -life-style et cetera; dBBlaustein
99 BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, THE - 'found' film 'documents' terror and deaths of woman and two men documenting backwoods horror-legend; great concept, execution; little stumbling; wdDMyrick/ESanchez cNFredericks HDonahue MWilliams JLeonard; $60k
99 BOWFINGER - consistently zany; talentless filmmaker (sSMartin) and actors make sci-fi film by secretly filming day-to-day situations 'involving' H'wood star EMurphy (brilliant!) he knows nothing about'; dFOz
99 BOYS DON'T CRY - excellent docudrama superfluous to BRANDON TEENA documentary (below); small-town teenager Teena Brandon (HSwank) finds romance (CSevigny) as boy; is murdered following discovery; dKPierce PSaarsgard BSextonIII AFolland AGoranson
99 BRANDON TEENA - Nebraska murder-case documentary; troubled, budding gay is 'outed' in series of cruel, small-town performance-ventures ending in her severe beating and murder; pdcSMuska/GOlafsdottir;
99 CASTLE, THE - well-crafted fun stuff! family overly happy with its 'unsophisticated' tastes has home takeover-threatened for airport expansion and wins case with 'Man's home is his castle'; dBobSitch MCaton ATenney SCurry ASimcoe SLee Australia
99 CITY, THE; LA CIUDAD - four very gritty slices-of-life on the low-end of latino immigrant life in NYC -with real immigrants thruout; sometimes overemotionalized, but overwhelming powerful thruout; cHBosmajian dDRiker
99 DELICATE ART OF THE RIFLE, THE - uneven, hugely funny, lo-budget, tongue-in-cheek nerd-chic/nerd-kitsch film 'walks' student college-theater-stage caretaker DGrant into his 'roomie' sSGrant's reprise of CWhitman's 1969 college massacre
99 DESERT BLUE - entertainment gem; something for everyone; cultural sociology prof and daughter are stranded in 'pop 300' desert Calif 'Baxter' with consequences you 'go along with'; mVNagisetty wdMJFreeman BSextonIII KHudson JHeard CRicci CAffleck SGilbert
99 DICK - Tricky Dick Nixon doesn't deserve such a beating, but an EXCELLENT comedy production thruout anyhow on his Watergate debacle; dwAFleming DHedaya KDunst MWilliams
99 DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS - excellent production thruout; zeitgeist study of relationship between two young, very different slacker/drifter personalities and the close world about them; sdRBohbot/sEZonca EBouchez NRegnier GConin
99 ELECTION - 'something for everyone' social material overrides TV-'situation' plot and characters; teacher MBroderick oversees HS presidency election; smug, over-achieving RWitherspoon, dAPayne
99 FELICIA'S JOURNEY - boy escapes Irish isolation into British army; pregnant girlfriend ECassidy searching for him runs into damaged child grownup as lonely, alienated supervisor of industrial cafeteria -serial killer Bob Hoskins carries the whole; bWTrevor dAEgoyan
99 FIST FULL OF FLIES - over-the-top script, acting and production crudeness of 'daughter in dysfunctional family' works to exceptional realism regarding 'coming of age' sexuality
99 FOLLOWING - stylish, psychological little thriller; bored would-be writer follows people out of boredom; burglar he follows teaches him burglary, turns table on him -with darker purpose; wdcCNolan JTheobald AHaw
99 42 UP - dMApted continues his 'every 7 years' sampling into the lives of 14 Britishers of different backgrounds since their common age 7.
99 GALAXY QUEST - definitely funstuff; starts slow, goes over the top; members of worn-out 'Star Trek' TV program are hi-jacked into corny genre adventure by real alien program admirers under siege of real enemy aliens; dDParisot
99 GENDERNAUTS - wdMTreut focuses her camera on a group of transgendered individuals [intersex -non-clinical] in San Francisco and examines the fluidity of gender as her subjects defy conventional definitions of male and female". (LACMA);
99 GENGHIS BLUES - film documents San francisco's blind blues-singer Paul Pena's romance and musical accomplishment with 'throat singing' here and in Tuva; p/dRoko and Adrian Belic
99 HAPPY TEXAS - just excellently crafted, riotous fun! (straight man)JNortham/(comedy man)SZahn escape crashed criminal transport vehicle, 'become' gay professional pageant producers; dMIllsley WHMacy AWalker IDouglas
99 HARMONISTS (also COMEDIAN H)- excellent WWII romance-type zeitgeist/docudrama chronicles rise and breakup of popular American 30's-style vocal group in Nazi Germany; dJVilsmaier BBecker HFerch UNoethen HSchafmeister MTidof; Germ
99 I STAND ALONE - BRILLIANT! society-brutalized child grows-up into smoldering butcher; in mishap over-protecting his mother-abandoned illegit daughter, voice-over confessional follows jail-release and unemployment; dGNoe PNahon
99 IDEAL HUSBAND, AN - superior thruout; "OWilde's smart comedy about morality sparkles with performances by stellar cast" (KThomas LATimes); sdOParker CBlanchett MDriver REverett JMoore JNortham
99 ILLUMINATA - turn-of-century _opera-buffa/french-farce within Cavelleria_Rusticana-based-play; excellent thruout; sBCole cHSavides mWBolcom dJTurturro KBorowitz SSarandon CWalken BillIrwin RSewell GCates LBassi ATurturro BGazzara BD'Angelo DMcCann
99 IT ALL STARTS TODAY - (Ca Commence Aujourd'hui) - excellent! dBTavernier docudramatizes extreme unemployment/poverty of Fr defunct mining town thru eyes of exceptionally aware and effective grade school director PTorreton
99 JAUNDICED EYE, THE - excellent, HIGHLY INFORMATIONAL DOCUMENTARY; teenager Stephen Mathews marries, father's child, discovers is gay; he AND HIS FATHER spend 4 yrs in jail for child molestation before legal finding of 'insufficient evidence'; wdNonny dela Pena
99 JULIEN DONKEY BOY - overkill, uniquely stylized WHerzogian lamentation on human condition turns (voyeuristically) on seriously dysfunctional family (by 'dad' WHerzog?) and its 'redeeming' work with blind people; dHKorine EBremnner(BRILLIANT!) CSevigny ENeuman
99 JUNK FOOD - blind old lady buying milk opens and closes interposed and contrasting nature of modern, international civilization thru several interrelated incidents of murder and thuggery; dMasashi Yamamoto
99 LAST DAYS, THE - documentary, dJMoll; Hungarian Jews among last to go (1944): five survivors of Auschwitz (mid-teeners) re-visit/live very personal and graphic memories and locales
99 LAST LIEUTENANT, THE - over-age, retired WWI navy lieutenant joins fight against Germans invading Norway; assembles small militia only to be overwhelmed and gives-up anyway; Norway
99 L'ENNUI - very good take on not uncommon sexual relationship: CBerling's mid-age 'intellectual' relationship with SGuillemin's teen-age intellectually disaffected 'earth mother' becomes irrationally obsessive; dCKahn; bAMoravia(La Noia); Fr.
99 LIMEY, THE - nothing production should be low-cost TV filmmaking study with repeated voice-over'ed old-footage; freed criminal TStamp makes bad music mogul PFonda pay for killing his daughter; dSSoderbergh LAWarren LGuzman BNewman JDallesandro
99 MAN OF THE CENTURY - excellently put-together, really funny conceit savaged by critics; tongue-in-cheek sub-musical of 1990's journalist (pwGFrazier) locked in early 20th century persona -reminiscent of Harold Lloyd; pwdAAbraham Susan Egan
99 MANSFIELD PARK - wdPRozema's idiosyncratic take on JAusten book is witty, well-crafted; 'poor cousin' FO'Connor is raised by and 'educates' wealthy family and 'slavery-tainted peers'; JLMiller ANivola EDavidtz HPinter.
99 MINUS MAN - excellent production thruout! -voice-over identifies OWilson as innocently cheerful but civilizationally damaged-and-detached, emotionally uninvolved, serial killer essentially 'helping people'; bLMcCreary cBobbyBukowski sdHFancher JGarofalo BCox MRuehl
99 MY SON, THE FANATIC - 'small', excellently crafted 70's Brit culture clash; son rejects Pakistani father's democracy for 'purer' religion; taxi-driving dad and client prostitute find saner communion; sHKureishi OmPuri RGriffiths SSkarsgard
99 OFFICE SPACE - fun stuff! space-age cubicle/office zeitgeist takes a beating as 'droned' employees try to beat the system; great characterizations with subtle mixture of races; wdMJudge RLivingston JAnniston DHerman ANaidu
99 PHOTOGRAPHER, THE - excellent documentary! doctor surviving Lodz Poland ghetto reads official documents along with B&W motion of today juxtoposed with color stills taken by German accountant stationed there in 1940;
99 PLUNKETT & MACLEANE - grossly underrated, excellently crafted, tongue-in-cheek-squalid, 18th century escapist/romance; debtor nobleman JLMiller goes real highwayman with RCarlyle, takes LTyler with him to America; great anachronistic music CArmstrong sSRoberts d JScott
99 ROSETTA - seriously intrusive direction/cinamatography (Dardenne bros); unrelenting debauched mother, trailer-park poverty bring despairingly unemployed girl EDuquenne to violate befriending boy's trust and job -her to near suicide; Belg/Fr.
99 RUN LOLA RUN - MTV becomes art! -four fast-paced takes on what difference a few real-life seconds can mean; girl saves petit-criminal boy-friend's life (fairy tale ending) after failed delivery of illegal $100,000; mwdTTykwer FPotente
99 RUSHMORE - GREAT! -excellently crafted, sophisticated melding of
superbright nerd/outsider coming-of-age and adult romance; wOWilson/WAnderson dWAnderson mMMothersbaugh JSchwartzman OWilliams BillMurray SCassel
99 SIX WAYS TO SUNDAY - hugely funny 'shaggy dog' story; over-mothered boy (impotent!) becomes local gang's enforcer (great Jewish idiom!); incest, suicide and killing eventually 'free' him; bCPerry(Portrait...) dABernstein cJInwood prod/dsgnTMastropierro NReedus DHarry PAppel ELowensjohn ABrody
99 SPARKLER - small, charming fun; 'trailer' wife catches husband cheating and leaves; meets up with three college-type 'uncertain of persona-self's on way to Las Vegas to win money for $3000 debt; everybody 'learns'
99 SPIKE AND MIKE'S 1999 CLASSIC FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION - just great!!!
99 SPY WHO SHAGGED ME - fun stuff; really raw 007 ('Austin Powers') spoof with FEW flat spots; wMMeyers/MMcCullers dJRoach
99 STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 - (for effects only); 'amusing': an unjustifiable amount of money spent for 'FX' on a story-and-development of 'very small-boy thrills'
99 STIFF UPPER LIPS - over-the-top spoof of turn-of-the-century Brit dramas
99 STRAIGHT STORY, THE - paean to midwest farm country life/people docudrama'd thru aged, infirm Alvin Straight's (RFarnsworth) 300 mile Iowa to Wisconsin visit to sick brother HDStanton by lawnmower; dDLynch SSpacek; veers near cornball, but actually GREAT!
99 SWEET AND LOWDOWN - excellent production thruout; wdWAllen's brilliantly inventive mockumentary chronicles rise and fall of incredibly undisciplined and self-centered legendary jazz-guitarist Emmet Ray (SPenn); SMorton UThurman ALaPaglia GMoll BMarkson and 'talking heads'
99 TEA WITH MUSSOLINI - shamelessly romantic (accordingly flawed) sJMortimer docudrama reconstructs dFZefferelli's coming of age among British lady-expatriots during Il Duce's rise and fall; Cher JDench JPlowright MSmith LTomlin CLucas BWallace
99 THOSE WHO LOVE ME CAN TAKE THE TRAIN - Homosexuality overweights fundamental issues of human relationships -BRILLIANT THRUOUT nevertheless; burial in aJLTrintignant's hometown airs everything about himself and friends; sDThompson dPChereau PGregory VBruni-Tedeschi CBerling VPerez Fr.
99 TITUS - psdJulieTaymor brilliantly fleshes out and smears in and out of Roman and modern civilization Shakespeare's 'too much tragedy and substance for stage' Titus Andronicus; AHopkins JLange HLennix LFraser
99 TUMBLEWEEDS - Terrific, near case-study documentary; puberty-turning daughter KJBrown puts breaks on caring but drifter, responsibility-free-spirited mother JMcTeer; bAShelton waGO'Connor MJPollard; shames hollywood's 'americana' sister release Anywhere But Here;
99 TWIN DRAGONS - fun stuff! -great performance art! -martial arts Jackie Chan separated from his world-reknowned pianist/conductor twin at birth in impossible story; milks every possible situation and line; dubbed; Hong Kong
99 TWIN FALLS, IDAHO - hooker MHicks becomes involved in often mawkish, but ultimately effective inner-dialog/life of Fall siammese twins rejected by mother LAWarren and ultimately separated by failed heart of one; wdM&MPolish real-life twins
99 WAR ZONE - cSMcGarvey dTRoth's debut; ferociously elemental loneliness, incestual perversion and death on ferociously elemental English North Devon seacliffs; fails only at the end; RWinstone TSwinton LBelmont FCunliffe
99 WINSLOW BOY, THE - magnificent thruout; DMamet's direction better than his plays; elderly father risks all to defend son dismissed as cadet from Brit Royal Navy; NHawthorne JNortham RPidgeon GJones GEdwards MPidgeon

98 A CIVIL ACTION - good, solid docudrama; ambulance chaser JSchlichtmann(JTravolta) takes on BeatriceFoods/WRGrace pollution and is 'converted' into activist; bJHarr wdSZaillian RDuvall TShalhoub WHMacy ZIvanek BNorris JLithgow KQuinlan
98 A SIMPLE PLAN - (bSBSmith) ransom money found in plane crash tour-de-force develops into 'morality play'; excellent performances/dSRami; BPaxton BBThornton BFonda BBriscoe GCole BABaker
98 ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE - superior thruout; abused-youth couple VKartheiser/NGWagner(dies) comes of age under abused-youth MGriffith/JWoods criminal tutelage bELittle sCLandon/SChin dLClark LDPhillips; drugs/violence
98 AUTUMN SUN - shamlessly contrived romance (but still 'intelligent'): Jewish well-to-do accountant woman and gentile picture framer meet thru personals dEMignogna NAleandro FLuppi JLuz CRossetto Argentina
98 BABE: PIG IN THE CITY - excellent, tho darker and more 'Hollywoodized mishap'-laden sequel to Babe; JCromwell MSzubanski
98 BEST MAN: 'BEST BOY' [1970] AND ALL OF US 20 YEARS LATER - dIWohl sequel profiles immediate family of retard -documents his life in a home for mentally disadvantaged; bar mitzvah (manipulated) brings family together
98 BROTHER - powerful, dystopian take on dystopian impact of Western democracy on 'new' Russia; excellent production (some discontinuities); become-dark-angel army dischargee 'removes' St Petersburg 'bad elements'; goes on to Moscow wdABabalabanov SBodrov
98 BUFFALO 66 - well-crafted; cruelly despairing, family-dysfunctioned (overdone) loser-son finds measure of self-esteem thru resurrecting love with another 'outsider' (w)dVGallo CRicci BGazzara AHuston
98 BUTCHER BOY - small-town Irish take on supersharp 12-yr-old rowdy of alcoholic Da, demented Ma coming-of-age in a 'not so rational' world he can't understand; bPMcCabe wdNJordan mEGoldenthal; EamonnOwens SRea FionaShaw
98 CELEBRATION, THE - large, well-to-do, extended family gathers for father's 60th birthday with unexpected unearthing of family (and larger society) secrets and corruption wdTVinterberg Denmark
98 CENTRAL STATION - old-maid letter-writer 'become callous to life' experiences 'life-reaffirmation' by helping 10-yr old boy reconnect with father; dWSalles FMontenegro; Brazil
98 COUSIN BETTE - GREAT FUN gothic pot-boiler; 'ugly cousin' Bette gets back at everyone; wHBalzac mSBoswell dDMcAnuff JLange EShue HLaurie BHoskins AYoung
98 CRUISE, THE - documentary ($140k): tagging along with irrepressible tour guide (Timothy 'Speed' Levitch); monologue studded with lovingly ideosyncratic observations on everything New York -past and present dBMiller
98 CUBE - slow-starting, really GREAT little horror film (awful dialog/acting) turns on bureaucracy having mindlessly developed purposeless, horrifying machine; dVNatali Canada
98 DANCER TEXAS POP 81 - 'small Everyman film'; great, overall production GEM; 4 hi-school (m) graduates aim to futures; 2 in LA, 2 in town.
98 DANCING AT LUGHNASA - Irish family of five sisters, illegit son and one brother undergo complete disintegration in WWII-prophetic 1936; bBFriel sFMcGuiness dPO'Connor MStreep KBurke MGambon SThompson CMcCormack BBrennan
98 DARK CITY - underrated, great horror/scifi effects (conjured flat-earth) put to good story use; m(GHolst Planets?) dAlexProyas RufusSewell JenniferConnelly KSutherland WHurt CFriel; Australia;
98 DECEIVER - wdJ&JPate Bros TRoth CPenn MRooker RZellwger -funstuff (Coen Bros Blood Simple) psychological pacing/murder/twists turning on lie detector
98 DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PT III, THE - excellent documentary; extensive 'punk' interviews indicting parents and society for youth-abuse resulting in the 90's 'gutter-punk'; pSWilder dPSpheeris' best
98 DIDN'T DO IT FOR LOVE - dMTreut documents 'undisciplinable' EvaNorvind's multi/country/life/activity/professions: Nordic film-bombshell (Mex), SM madam (NY), intellerati centrum (Fr?), degrees in human sexuality and psych (NYU)
98 FALLEN - wNKazan dGHoblit DWashington JGoodman DSutherland EmbethDavidtz JGadolfini EKoteas; Horror/thriller with great twists: invisible fallen angel devils detective.
98 FARM, THE -ANGOLA, USA - excellent, walk-thru documentary with long-term inmate interviews on largest, maximum security prison by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus
98 GADJO DILO - no real story, but interesting peak into current Romanian Gypsy life and music wpTGatlif RDuris RHartner ISerban
98 GENERAL, THE - good, solid docudrama on Dublin 80's gangster Martin Cahill; dJBoorman BGleeson ADunbar JVoight MDoyleKennedy Brit
98 GOD SAID, HA - excellent, sophisticated, very funny; wdJSweeney stages recent episodes in her life regarding her and and her brother's cancers and family relations (among other) during that period
98 HANNAH - dRSchwabenitzsky Elfi Eschke JHentsch AZirner political thriller/romance NOTABLE because Hollywood doesn't know how to make such GOOD (b) films cheaply (w/o FX) Austrian
98 HENRY FOOL - masterpiece auteur psychological something-for-everyone' sprawl (subject 'integrity'); philosophical knight-errant drifter sets local things 'right as can be' (in screwed-up world) wdpHHartley TJRyan JUrbaniak PPosey MPorter
98 HINTERLAND - (L'ARRIERE PAYS) subtly subdued autobiographical; TV actor (dJNolot) revisits home of childhood in Sp-border France, relives past and unearths more withheld, the whole with subtle underplay of his own homosexuality
98 INHERITORS, THE - excellent; 30's German farmers zeitgeist; dying, unmarried farmer bequeaths it to 10 peasant workers with harrowing consequences wdSRuzowitsky SSchwarz SRols LRudolph JGschnitzer UWildgruber Germany
98 JINNAH - 1st rate docudrama; lawyer Mohammed Ali Jinnah as major force in freeing India from England with statehood for Pakistan; pdJDehlavi sAAhmed/Dehlavi CLee/RLintern JFox MAitken SKapoor SShah
98 JUNK MAIL - excellently crafted many-twist low-life thriller/romance growing out of crime-gone-wrong wJHalberg wdPSletaune RSkjaerstad Norway
98 KURT AND COURTNEY - NBroomefield's excellent commentary on society and the entertainer's in general and K&C's in particular (parallel Wild Man Blues)
98 LITTLE VOICE - great characterization, riotously funny (and dark) fairy tale; 'dead Dad' hang-ups detonate MCaine's discovery of 'famous-songstresses' impersonator; JHorrocks BBlethyn JBroadbent EMcGregor Brit.
98 LOVE IS THE DEVIL - EXCELLENT! -not 'film', but a very internal, Francis Bacon-style art construction ON film of the British painter's persona, mentality and cruelly rejectionist view of mankind
98 MARIUS AND JEANETTE - excellent production; broadly sophisticated, rollicking characterization; early-40's star-crossed couple' romance in near-slum Marseille neighborhood, ; wdRGuediguian AAscaride GMeylan PRoberts JBoudet
98 MRS. DALLOWAY - bVWoolf sEAtkins dMGorris VRedgrave NMcElhone RGraves terrific 'interior' film; don't bother if you don't 'speak V Woolfian'
98 MOON OVER BROADWAY - ChrisHegedus&DAPennebaker on KLudwig's MOON OVER BUFFALO dTomMoore CBurnett PhillipBosco: good, over-the-shoulder documentary on Broadway play becoming work-in progress
98 MY NAME IS JOE - gut-level reality (however 'filmic') on alcoholism, drugs and unemployment in trying to stay alive in lower-class Glasgow; wdKLoach PMullan; subtitled
98 OFF THE MENU: THE LAST DAYS OF CHASEN'S - excellent documentary: just what it says by SSBerman/RPulcinis
98 OPPOSITE OF SEX, THE - great dialog/performances! -very funny, well-scripted shaggy-dog story turns on 1-dimensional, 16yr-old REALLY BAD runaway girl turning everything she touches into shit wdDRoos CRicci LKudrow MDonovan
98 PARADISE LOST - pdJBerlinger/BSinofsky document the seriously biased 'small town' trial of three teen-age boys found guilty of the 'black witchcraft' murder of three smaller boys; some egregious voyeurism
98 PHOENIX - great/'UNSAVORY' 'bad detectives' tale; RLiotto's only flaw of gambling leads to far more serious problems; great casting/direction (except for egregiously incongruent AHuston); wERichey dDCannon ALaPaglia DBaldwin JPiven TNoonan
98 PIECES D'IDENTITIE - (Tattered Identity) modern village/tribal king searching for daughter 15-years gone to Belgium to become doctor reexperiences profound subtleties in Congo independence from Belgium; (Fr)Congo/Zaire
98 RAT - Mark Lewis' documentary on NY City rats; ostensibly light humor is a really EXCELLENT study on their numbers, sociology and our (humans) intercommunion with them
98 SALTMEN OF TIBET - excellent and intimate documentary on primitive (very) yak herders during their annual trek exchanging yaks for salt with an aside of encroaching civilization dUlrikeKoch
98 SMOKE SIGNALS - very near modern Amerind folkloric masterpiece; tongue-in-cheek yet uncompromising slice-of-life; wShermanAlexie dChrisEyre GaryFarmer AdamBeach EvanAdams TantooCardinal
98 STILL BREATHING - beats standard 'too hip' Hollywood romances all to hell! shaky start; works anyhow! dJRobinson JGoins BFraser
98 TANGO - GREAT musical production/sets/DANCING! -mLSchifrin pVStoraro; weak story-within-story sprawl (immigracion, los desparecidos, West side story) needed more wdCSaura constraint
98 THIEF, THE - very Russian, 'peripheral' take on human condition, on the small stuff of which we are constituted; 1946, husbandless mother romanced by on-the-move thief masquerading as officer
98 UN AIRE DE FAMILLE - excellent stagecraft/characterization; bitter-sweet miniature on human condition thru one family's weekly Friday get-together wJPBacri/AJaoui dCKlapisch JPBacri AJaoui JPDarroussin CFrot CMaurier WYaranoff French
98 UNMADE BEDS - beautifully profiling documentary ('rescripted' interview material) on four distinct-personality-type real people 'looking for love' in New York city; dNBarker Brit
98 VELVET GOLDMINE - great all-around MTV (early 70's British glam) production overrides weak, bloated, overly long story-line premising 'Oscar Wilde sensitivities'. wdTHaynes JRMeyers EMcGregor Tcollette CBale EIzzard MFeast
98 WACO: THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT - terrific documentary on Waco's Koresh and Branch Davidians; 'religious misled' they may have been, but this government's 'handling of the situation' is a high point in American 'cowboy' mentality
98 WAKING NED DEVINE - excellent Brit Isle comedy; Ned Devine holds winning lottery ticket -but he's dead so villagers substitute from one of their own; wdKJones IBannen DKelly FFlanagan SLynch JNesbitt
98 WESTERN - excellent fun stuff; shaggy-dog fable-style story puts disparate male pair on the road (on foot) out of love; Spaniard always finds it, loses at the end; Russian 'loser' finds it; dMPoirier SLopez SBourdo EVitali MMatheron; French (Breton)
98 WILD MAN BLUES - excellent commentary on society, the entertainer's in general and Allen's in particular; bittersweet and sour.

97 WITMAN BOYS, THE - wdJSzasz AFogarassi SGergely MMorgenstern Hungarian 2 bros sub-gothic horror story excellent 1914 village feel
97 WINGS OF THE DOVE, THE - bHJames sHossein Amini mEShearmur dISoftley HBonham-Carter LRoche AllisonElliott dazzlingly faithful(?) rendering loses momentum last 5 mins
97 WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY - dCedricKlapisch GaranceClavel lost cat a device for 20's shy girl to blossom 'exploring' dynamic Bastille neighborhood Fr
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97 WHEN WE WERE KINGS - (rumble in the jungle) pDSonnenberg dTHackford dLeon Gast MAli(Cassius Clay) Geo Foreman James Brown BBKing NMailer GPlimpton Spike Lee '72Championship Kinshasa documentary
97 WINNER, THE - sWRiss(A Darker Purpose) dACox VD'onofrio RDeMornay MMadsen DLindo BillyBobThornton charasmatic(&suicidal) loner/innocent serves 'god righting fucked-up things in Las Vegas'
97 WASHINGTON SQ - bHenry James dAgnieszka Holland JJLeigh AFinney BChaplin MSmith quirky but faithful to book; better than The Heiress
97 WAITING FOR GUFFMAN - (fictional Blaine,MO 'stool capital of the world' annual festival) mlHShearer&CGuest(both SPINAL TAP) waELevy wdCGuest LArquette BobBalaban PPosey
97 UMM KULTHUM: A VOICE LIKE EGYPT - wpdMichalGoldman documentary (Egypt) covers 20th cent idiom and revolution thru (vehicle) voice of singer
97 TWIN TOWN - Use of Swansea in 'rage against civilization' (conceit) vs 'what used to be'
97 TITANIC - wdJCameron ('Romeo and Juliet on a sinking boat') LDiCaprio KWinslet BillyZane KBates - great effects; needless story/directing, but some still some good scenes
97 TANGO LESSON, THE - wdSPotter PabloVeron self-indulgent, compositionally AWFUL film (eg 'Jewishness'? -from out of nowhere); GREAT dancing!
97 STAR MAPS - wdMArleta DSpain EFigueroa KJorden MVelez LysaFlores flawed/crude sprawl of actor-wannabe hustler covers lot of territory
97 SICK: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST - dKDick documents the life of writer/performance artist defying pain of debilitating cystic fibrosis through masochistic acts with the help of his [painfully superior] wife" (LAT)
97 SHINE - (rehab of 'pianist' DHelfgott) pJScott sJSardi dSHicks GRush NTaylor AMueller-Stahl LRedgrave JGielgud Googie Withers $4.5 Australia
97 SHALL WE DANCE - bMSuo wdKojiYakusho Jap (mores exploration) ballroom dancing changes salary-man's meaning of life
97 SALUT COUSIN - Algerians in Paris, expositional: 'trying to make it's Fr
97 ROMY AND MICHELLE'S - sRobinSchiff dDavidMirkin LisaKudrow MiraSorvino hi-school reunion adult fairy tale
97 NIL BY MOUTH - cRonFortunato mEricClapton wdGOldman RWinstone KBurke(Oldman sis) CCreed-Miles LMorse JForman terrific fly-on-wall semi-autobiographical raging SELondon tight-knit family low-lifes
97 MRS BROWN - (HER MAJESTY) dJMadden JDench BillyConnelly Antony Sher Brit
97 MONDO - bJMGLeClezio dTony Gatlif Ovidiu Balan adult fairy tale (cum music): charasmatic N Afican orphan(?)'s appearance brings 'happiness' to Fr Med town; disappears as inexplicably?.
97 MESSAGE TO LOVE - (Isle of Wight love-in 70) dpMurray Lerner
97 LOVE SERENADE - wdShirleyBarrett AU funny/near-fairy-tale; thesis: 'love is ALL; fettered dies'
97 LONG WAY HOME, THE - pHier MarkHarris documentary: 1945-48 Jewish experience formation of Israel.
97 LOLITA - excellent production for screenplay (difficult) very interior novel; 'Everyman' HHumbert's romantic idealization of nymphet fails him, her feet (and his) mired in very human clay; bVNabokov dALynne JIrons DSwain MGriffith FLangella
97 LILIES - s"les Feluettes"MMBouchard dJGreyson all male cast 'conceit'; homosexual murder story resolved (in prison) thru re-enacting FrCan (Pasolini'd be jealous!)
97 KULL -
97 KISSED - wdLStopkewich Molly Parker Peter Outerbridge a take on 'non-pathological, transcendental' necrophilic lovesong BritCol
97 KISS OR KILL - wdBillBennett FrancisO'Connor MattDay CHaywood BOtto Australia richly false-lead-twisted road film; scam-artist boy-girl 'not so bad after all'
97 INTIMATE RELATIONS - wd??? Julie Walters Rupert Graves English real-50's-case-based chaotic sexual relationship: mother, daughter, innocent slacker
97 IN THE COMPANY OF MEN - wdNLaBute harsh; rare '90's zeitgeist' interpersonal dialog, ethics etc; vehicle: young MBA types
97 I CAN'T SLEEP - Claire Denis (CHOCOLAT) racial: man's inhumanity to man turns on African immigrant's estrangement in Paris
97 HAMSUN - dJTroell MvonSydow GhittaNorby Norway truly multi-dimensional and monumental production thruout with Hamsun's Nazi disposition as vehicle
97 GUY - wKirbyDick dMLindsay-Hogg VD'Onofrio lovestory conceit: film-making female-and-camera dogs innocent young man and makes his life miserable -followed by turnabout.
97 GUMMO - wdHarmonyKorine aimless(?) (?)disgust-testing, promoted-voyeur/observer/filmic documentary(?) on ignorantly cruel, aimless, underbelly, young Xenia OH losers (WHerzog done better?)
97 FULL MONTY, THE - wSBeaufoy mADudley dPCattaneo RCarlyle TWilkinson MAddy Brit unemployeds go Chippendale Brit
97 FIRE - wdDeepaMehta broad coverage of modern, mid-class India life turning on mores, alienation and (aside) lesbianism; Ind
97 FETISHES - dNBroomfield (Heidi) 'business of sado-masochism' documentary
97?ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA - final Bolivian 9 months good minor historical rerelease?
97 EAST SIDE STORY -
97 DEATHMAKER - lawyer-psychologist interviews serial/sex JDaumer-type killer; German
97?DEATH IN FIVE VOICES - (GESUALDO) dWHerzog documentary Ger
97 DAYTRIPPERS - dGreg Mottola Hope Davis Stanley Tucci Parker Posey alienation w/gay 2ndary
97 DAS BOOT - (director's cut) JProchnow dWPetersen Holland
97 COSI - d?Louis Nowra crazies put on 'Fan Tutti'
97 COMRADES: ALMOST A LOVE STORY - sIvyHo dPeterChan MaggieCheung LeonLai really engaging SPRAWL of modern Chinese, near-misses romance romance -very near overkill with development and breadth
97 CHASING AMY - wdKevin(CLERKS)Smith 'anthropology' naturalness of young, open-ended sexual expression $250k
97 CAREER GIRLS - dMLeigh Katlin Cartlidge Lynn Steadman two successful yng women in romantically nostalgic re-meet over undergrad days Brit
97 BREAKDOWN - 'kidnapped wife' thriller
97 BOOGIE NIGHTS - mMPenn wdPaul Anderson MWahlberg JMoore BReynolds DCheadle JCReilly WHMacy HGraham NParker PSHoffman Hollywoodized but excellent take on '80's pornofilm bus
97 BEAUMARCHAIS, THE SCOUNDREL - dEMolinaro Fabrice Luchini potboiler roll of pre-french-revn playwright
97 APOSTLE - THE wdRDuvall JuneCarterCash FarrahFawcett MirandaRichardson BillyBobThornton gospel americana; preacher-on-lam goes apostle to make good and gets caught
97 A BROTHER'S KISS - wdSZRosenfeld NChinlund MRaynor RPerez MTomei CMoriarty JPierce JDanowsky bad-old-bro good-bro love-hate EHarlem 'melodrama'
97?A TICKLE IN THE HEART - Epstein Bros klezmorim americana documentary re-release?
97 A SELF MADE HERO - dJacquesAudiard brilliant 'construction': ignorant, innocent WWI officer imposterage becomes window on introspection and the human condition; French

96?ZERO KELVIN - b"Larsen"PeterTutein sLarsLundholm sdHansMolland Greenland fur trappers 1925; Norway;
96 UNZIPPED - (dress designer Isaac Mizrahi profile) dDouglas Keeve
96 RICHARD III - (ca 1939) sIMcKellen sdRLoncraine ABening JBroadbent RDowneyJr NHawthorne KScottThomas Msmith JWood $8M Brit
96 TREES LOUNGE - (slacker) wdSBuscemi ALaPaglia EBracco MRogers MImperioli
96 TRAINSPOTTING - (joys, appeal and resurrection from drugs) Glasgow?
96 THROWING DOWN - dLawrence O'Neill
96 THAT THING YOU DO - (Beatles variation) wdTHanks mHShore TEScott LTyler JSchaech SZahn EEmbry THanks
96 SWEET NOTHING - wLeeDrysdale dGaryWinick MImperioli MSorvino PCalderon
96 SMALL WONDERS - (primary grades violin teacher) dAlan Miller Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras
96 SMALL FACES - dGilles MacKinnon Scottish Glasgow?
96 SLING BLADE - (McCloud/KHauser?) wdBillyBob Thornton RDuvall JWWalsh
96 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY - dAng Lee sEThompson ARickman KWinslet HGrant Eng
96 SECRET AGENT - (study in characters) bJConrad BHoskins PArquette RWilliams JBroadbent GDepardieu
96 RIDICULE - (in Fr monarchy period piece study) sRWaterhouse dPLeconte CBerling FArdant JRochefort JGodreche BGiraudeau Fr
96 QUIET ROOM, THE - wdRolfD de Heer para-clinical take: child's response to impending divorce.
96 PRIMAL FEAR - RGere but only for the performance of Edward Norton as 'killer ex-altar-boy'
96 PHARAOH'S ARMY - dRobby Henson Chris Cooper Patricia Clarkson Kris Kristofferson
96 MICHAEL - wEphron&PDexter,JQuinlan dNEphron Bob Hoskins JTravolta AMcDowell WHurt JStapleton RPastorelli
96 MARIAN - dPVaclav Communist Czech late 70-80's 'velvet rev'n'; unkept child (gypsy) becomes 'Borstal' ward-of-state, eventually hopeless, beaten, sociopath/suicide
96 MAN WITH A PLAN - wdJohnO'brien FredTuttle Tunbridge, VT Friendly, Renewable Environment, Dinky (FRED)
96 LUST AND REVENGE - sdPCox NHope GDobrowolska CKarvan VEagger CHaywood Aust/NZ?
96 LOSING CHASE - dKBacon(wife)KSedgewick BBridges HMirren
96 LONG KISS GOODNIGHT - dRHarlin GDavis SJackson
96 LAND AND FREEDOM - dKLoach Brit
96 KNOCKS AT MY DOOR - nuns in ElSalvador/Nicaragua type rebellion pdAlejandro Sademan Venezuela
96 KINGPIN - dFarrellyBros RQuaid WHarrelson VAngel BillMurray
96 JUDE THE OBSCURE - bTHardy sHAmin dMWinterbottom CEggleston KWinslet LCunningham RGriffiths JWhitefield
96 JANE EYRE - dFranco Zeffirelli Charlotte Gainsbourg William Hurt
96 I SHOT A MAN IN LAS VEGAS - JStockwell JGarofalo
96 HOUSE BUILT ON SAND - Russian (re Burnt by The Sun)
96 HEIDI FLEISS - dNBroomfield INagy
96 HAMLET - dKBranagh JLemon(awful!) BCrystal DJacobi JChristy CHeston KWinslet RWilliams
96 FLIRT - wdHalHartley 3 'views'; 3rd filmically fatal
96 FARGO - (true) Coen Bros William Macy Frances Dormand
96 EXECUTIVE DECISION - Kurt Russell Steven Seagal Halle Berry
96 DESOLATION ANGELS - wdTMcCann
96 DADETOWN - dRuss Hexter completely fictitious 'documentary' of change-over death of 1-industry town
96 CYCLO - Vietnam
96 COLD COMFORT FARM - dJSchlesinger
96?CHAMPAGNE SAFARI - (Charles Bedeaux) dGeoUnger
96 CHAIN REACTION - MFreeman KReeves
96 CELLULOID CLOSET -
96 CELESTIAL CLOCKWORK - incredibly charming, really sophisticated take on Rossini's Cenerentolla (Cinderella) dFinaTorres AriadnaGil ArielleDombasle EvelyneDidi
96 CAUGHT - dRobertM Young EJOlmos MariaConchitaAlonso StevenShaub Arie Verveen
96 BWANA - dImanolUribe MariaBarranco AndresPajares racial: man's inhumanity to man
96 BOUND - wdWachowskiBros JenniferTilly GinaGershon JoePantolino JohnRyan (low-key)lesbian rip-off of 'straight' world
96 BOTTLE ROCKET - dWAnderson Wilson Bros; loser/slacker/innocents talk selves into becoming 'really intelligent robbers'; become 'gang that couldn't shoot straight'
96 BIG NIGHT - dSTucci TShalhoub MDriver IHolm IRossellini trying to make it
96 ANGELS AND INSECTS - bASByatt (Morpha Eugenia) dP&BHaas MRylance KScott-Thomas PKensit JKemp DHenshall
96 301-302 - Korean (conceit) gourmet cooking vs bulimia disorder (goes cannibal)

95 THINGS TO DO IN DENVER (WHEN YOU'RE DEAD?) - wSRosenberg dGFleder AGarcia CWalken CLloyd WForsythe WNunn TWilliams JWarden SBuscemi FBalk GAnwar
95 TALES FROM THE HOOD - wdpRCundieff/DScott horror/black moral tales
95 SONS OF THE SHARK - dAgnesMerlet LudovicVandendaele ErickDaSilva disaffected/abandoned child veritŠ
95 SISTER, MY SISTER - (JGenet THE MAIDS) s(and play)WKesselman cARow(p)e dNMeckler JWalters JRichardson JMay SThursfield
95 SEVEN - dDavidFincher BPitt Freeman KSpacey
95 SAFE - JMoore's innocent inability to cope with meaningless excesses of civilization -everything from 'lifestyle and the quality of life' to 'philosophy', ultimately takes her into complete sensory deprivation; sdTHaynes cANepomniaschy
95 RHYTHM THIEF - wdMHarrison JAndrews EDaniels KCorrigan KFlynn
95 OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS - (rel'97) bTCapote dDRocksavage narrationBKingdom LBluteau AThomson DSpeck(boy) meets 'southern gothic' alienation-and-remorse (human condition?)
95 NOBODY WILL SPEAK OF US WHEN WE'RE DEAD - superior production of 'in memoriam' dark-comedy fable: spoiled wife of brain-dead toreador hits unbelievable bottom -learns mother-in-law's lesson; dADiazYanes VAbril FLuppi PBardon Sp
95 MEET THE FEEBLES - Peter Jackson NZ
95 MARTHA AND ETHEL - pBEttinger dJJohnstone
95 INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA - Quay Bros MRylance
95 HEAT - "meticulously controlled, completely involving crime melodrama (wdMMann) about a relentless cop pursuing a master criminal. The dark end of the street doesn't get much more inviting than this" (LAT); APacino RDeNiro VKilmer
95 FUN - dRafael Zelinsky RHumphrey AWitt
95 FEAST OF JULY -
95?FEAR - wCCrowe dFoley MWahlberg WPetersen AMilano ABrenneman; daughter RWitherspoon rebels w/REALLY BAD GUY
95 CITY OF LOST CHILDREN - uneven fantasy about mad scientist DEmilfork aging prematurely because incapable of dreaming; thugs supply him with city kids for a lab on offshore rig where infiltrates their slumber and grabs dreams for himself; dp:JPJeunet/MCaro Fr.
95 BABE - nDick King-Smith dCNoonan aJHenson mAWestlake (Saint-Saens) JCromwell MSzubanski NZ
95 A LITTLE PRINCESS - bFHBurnett sRLaGravenese &EChandler dACuaron LMatthews EBron LCunningham
95 12 MONKEYS - dTGilliam MStowe BWillis BPitt
95 1-900 - dTheo van Gogh Dutch

94 WHAT HAPPENED WAS - wdTNoonan TNoonan KSillas
94 TOM AND VIV - (TSEliot) Miranda Richardson Willem Dafoe
94 SPANKING THE MONKEY - wdDORussel JDavies AWatson CGallo BHendricksen
94 SHALLOW GRAVE - pAMacDonald wJHodge dDBoyle mSBoswell KFox CEccleston EMcGregor Scottish
94 SELLING OF A SERIAL KILLER - documentary on the prosecutorial and journalistic sensationalist hype surrounding trial of serial killer Aileen Wuornos; pdNBroomfield
94 SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA - Vietnam
94 RED - wKPiesiewicz wdKKieslowski IJacob JLTrintignant
94 RED ROCK WEST - dJohn Dahl NCage DHopper LFlynn-Boyle
94 PULP FICTION - wdQTarantino JTravolta SLJackson UThurman HKeitel TRoth APlummer MdeMedeiros VRhames EStoltz RArquette CWalken BWillis
94 PROFESSIONAL, THE - (LEON) - shameless justice-be-done defies question; prof. killer JReno is stuck with precocious NPortman (teaches him to read) orphaned by drug-psychopathic DEA chief GOldman; saves her and dies offing ALL badies; mESerra wdLBesson DAiello
94 PRINCESS CARABOO - wJWells wdMAustin cFFrancis PCates JBroadment WHughes KKline JLithgow SRea
94 PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT - gay stage-show group TStamp HWeaving GPierce 'take the show on the road' (bus) into the backroads of Australia; a wild, greatly funny romp; dSElliot
94 PLACE IN THE WORLD -
94 PHILADELPHIA - wRNyswaner dJDemme JRobards MSteenbergen ABanderas THanks DWashington Vawter(Wooster group)
94 NATURAL BORN KILLERS - sQTarantino dOStone WHarrelson JLewis RDowney jr TLJones
94 NAKED GUN 33 1/3 (FINAL INSULT) - DZucher prod, LNielsen PPresley GKennedy OJSimpson FWard
94?NAKED - dMLeigh (too fine and esoteric a character study about a really cruel social misfit?)
94 MADNESS OF KING GEORGE (III) - sABennett mGFenton cADunn dNHytner NHawthorne HMirren IHolm ADonohoe RGraves REverett
94 LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER first-rate Jackie Chan 'chinese opera'!!!
94 LAST SEDUCTION - wSBarancik mJVitarelli dJDahl LFiorentino PBerg BPullman
94 LAMERICA - dGAmelio; "two Italian racketeers go to post-communist Albania to set up fictive firm and pocket the grants. Looking for a stooge, they discover the real Albania, an echo of post-WW2 Italy" (amcin). It.
94 LADYBIRD LADYBIRD - wdKLoach CRock; British consulate's paradocumentary of 'mother declared unfit'-her fight with social services to retain custody of children and her humanity
94 LA VIE DE BOHEME - bHMuger dAKaurismaki MPellonapaa JPLeaud SFuller LMalle
94 IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN) - pM&VCecchi Gori bASkameta mLEBacalov cFDiGiacomo dMRadford MTroisi PNoiret APavignano FScarpelli Italy $4M
94 I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT - wdMLBemberg; most-desired, unmarried middle-age morose-about-love MMastroianni falls in love with horseback-riding midget and loves him too, but leaves him to 'be with her own' when traveling circus goes thru town; Argentina
94 HIGHWAY PATROLMAN - sLO'Brien dACox RSosa; novitiate Mexican highway patrolman discovers impossibility (dystopian) of 'adhering to the straight and narrow'
94 HEAVENLY CREATURES - two teen-age girl-friends kill one of their mothers; dPJackson MelanieLynskey KateWinslett; NZ
94 HAWK THE - HMirren
94 GOOD MORNING VIET NAM - dBLevinson
94 GERMINAL - bEZola cYAngelo dCBerry GDepardieu
94 DECEMBER BRIDE - Irish
94 DEAD MOTHER, THE - wd UllosBros KarraElejalde Lio AnaAlvarez; zany black-humor, 'CoenBros go existential'; burglar kills mother, assumes role for grown-up daughter gone crazy; Spanish
94 DANGEROUS REMEDIES - wSMain&PWells cLNarby eDCoulson mPScholesJWard-Lealand LChappell KSmith CCurtis KMills MHurst
94 CRUMB - 'dTZwigoff's documentary about underground cartoonist RCrumb deals with his work and also with effect of family in shaping character. Crumb and two brothers complete picture of man who draws because it makes the madness of his life manageable' (LAT)
94 CRONOS -
94 COLONEL CHABERT - bHBalzac d(c?)YAngelo ADusollier FArdant GDepardieu
94 BULLETS OVER BROADWAY - wWAllen DWiest JCusack TUllman JTilley CPalmininteri
94 BROWNING VERSION - sTRattigan GScacchi MModine AFinney
94 BLACK HARVEST - Australia (Papua) RConnolly RAnderson
94 BARCELONA - wdWStillman TNichols CEigeman MSorvino TBergen
94 ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE - sJBernstein sdTShadyac saJCarrey SYoung CCox TLoc
94 A PLACE IN THE WORLD -

93 WAR ROOM, THE - ChrisHegedus&DAPennebaker over-the-shoulder documentary on Clinton campaign for presidency; JCarville; GStephanopoulos
93 THIS BOY'S LIFE - bTobiasWolfe dMCaton-Janes LDecaprio RDeniro
93 STRICTLY BALLROOM - highlights filmmaker's flair for mixing flashy visuals with song-and-dance elements, both conventional and reinvented (LAT); dBLuhrman Australian
93 ROMPER STOMPER - sdGWright JMcKenzie RCrowe DPollack
93 REMAINS OF THE DAY - bKIshiguro sRJhabvala dJIvory AHopkins EThompson
93 RAINING STONES - wdKloach
93 OLIVIER OLIVIER -
93 MAP OF THE HUMAN HEART - dVWard Leung Binoche?
93 MAN IN A UNIFORM - dD Wellington TMcCamus Canada
93 MAN BITES DOG - Belvaux ABonzel BPoelvoorde Belgium
93 LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE - bLEsquivel dAArau
93 LEOLO - JCLauzon Canada
93 LATCH(M)O DROM - dpAGatlif traces current gypsy music from India/Pakistan thru Near East, Central Europe and Spain
93 KING OF THE HILL - Soderburgh
93 IRON MONKEY - makes it where (this writer thinks) Crouching Tiger failed: real versus plodding: FUN! FUN! FUN! See it! See it! See it! dYuenWoPing YuRong-Guang DonnieYen JeanWang TsangSze-Man YuenShun-Yi JamesWong YenYee- 93 HOUSE OF ANGELS - dCNutley
93 HARD BOILED - JWoo
93 HANDGUN - fMSpiller wdWRansick TWilliams PSchulze SCassel
93 GUILTY AS SIN - dSLumet RMornay DJohnson
93 GROUNDHOG DAY - dHRamis BMurray AMcDowell
93 FRAUDS - PCollins
93 FRANZ KAFKA'S WONDERFUL LIFE - REGrant
93 FALLING DOWN - MDouglas
93 ENCHANTED APRIL - bEVon Armen sPBarnes dMNewell MRichardson JPlowright AMolin Jlawrence PWalker AFI
93 DANGEROUS GAMES - HKeitel (not seen)
93 CRUSH - dAlison Maclean Marcia Harden, Donogh Rees, Caitlin Bossley William Zappa NZ
93 CONJUGAL BED, THE - dMDaneliuc GDinica
93 BY THE SWORD? - dJKagan ERoberts FAbrams
93 BUM RAP - dDIrom CWasson BBaker ALewis
93 BEING AT HOME WITH CLAUDE - pRene-Daniel Dubois dJean Beaudin Roy Dupuis Quebec
93 BAD LIEUTENANT - dAFerrara HKeitel
93 BAD BOY BUBBY - wdRolfDeHeer NHope flawed, over-the-top, black-humored, ALL-encompassing rage against humanity/civilization (with sermons) turning on antithetical Kaspar Hauser-type (includes related Man of Flowers organist) Australia
93 40 M2 - German(Turk)
93 32 SHORT PIECES ABOUT GLENN GOULD - quasi-documentary; mJSBach's (32) Goldberg Variations; dFGirard

92?CHE ORA E? (WHAT TIME IS IT) - dEScola? MTroisi MMastroianni
92 WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD - bEMForster CSturridge, HBonham-Carter JDavis RGraves Guidelli HMirren
92 UNFORGIVEN - sDWebb pdCEastwood GHackman MFreeman RHarris
92 TOTO LE HEROS -
92 STATION - SRubini SRubini
92 SIMPLE MEN - HHartley RBurke WSage
92 RESERVOIR DOGS - SKubrick's 'The Killing' redux; Five brutal thieves meet in an LA warehouse after a jewel robbery blows up around them; over-the-top script/direction (QTarantino), but some great performances; HKeitel TRoth SBuscemi CPenn MMadsen LTierney (???)
92 PROOF - IWinkler? GMoorhouse HWeaving RCrowe GPicot
92 ORLANDO - bVWoolf wdSPotter QCrisp(Elizabeth I) TSwinton
92 LAWS OF GRAVITY - cJDeSegonzac dwpNGomez PGreene ATrese EFalco AField PSchulzie $38k
92 LAST OF MOHICANS - JFCooper MMann DDLewis MStowe
92 L'ELEGANT CRIMINALE - JAuteuil (Lacenaire)
92 JUMPING AT THE BONEYARD - AArquette TRoth DVanase
92 GUNCRAZY - dTDavis? DBarrymore JLeGros
92 FAREWELL CHINA - wdClara Law Chinese
92 DRACULA, BRAM STOKER'S - dFFCopola GOldman WRyder KReeves
92 DELICATESSEN - dp's JPJeunet/MCaro DPinon(also DIVA)
92 DAMAGE - dLMalle LCaron JIrons JBinoche MRichardson
92 BROTHER'S KEEPER - pdJBerlinger/BSinofsky (NY Delbert Ward bros documentary) AFI
92 BELLE EPOQUE - bRAzcona sGPrat mADuhamel cJLAlcaine dFTrueba FGomez MVerdu JSanz
92 BARAKA - wdRFricke
92 APOCALYPSE THEN - d(sister)
92 ADJUSTER - AEgoyan EKoteas AKhanjian
92 A MIDNIGHT CLEAR - WWharton KGordon EHawke GSinese AGross PBerg FWhaley GMcGinley

91?OAK THE - dLPintilie Maia Morgenstern RVasilescu Romainian
91 WAJDECK'S MOTHER'S FRIEND'S SON - ABarkus ZDinev DGould RChepin ABarkus AFI
91 SLACKER - RLinklater
91 SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - THarris JDemme JFoster AHopkins SGlenn
91 RIFF-RAFF - dKLoach RCarlysle EMcCourt RTomlinson Eng
91 RAMBLING ROSE - wCWillngham dRBolton EBernstein MCoolidge LDern RDuvall DLadd LHaas
91 PARIS IS BURNING -
91 ONCE AROUND - MS Marmo LHellstrom RDreyfuss HHunter DAiello LSanGiacomo GRowlands
91 MISTER JOHNSON - JCary BBeresford PBrosnan EWoodward MEziashi
91 LOVERS THE - dVArande VAbaril JSanz MVerdu
91 LIFE IS SWEET - MLeigh JBroadbent
91 LET HIM HAVE IT - PMedak CEccleston PReynolds Tbell EAtkins CHolman MElphick MMcGann
91 IL CAPITANO - JTroell AReini MHeiskanan BMarklund AVierikko AFI
91 FOOTMAN (IL PORTABORSE) - DLuchetti SOrlando NMoretti GBrogi AFI
91 DELUSION - CColpaert JMetzler JRubin KSecor GOshman Dutch
91 CLOSE TO EDEN - dNMikhalkov Bayaertu Badema VGostukhin
91 BAXTER - 'the human condition' and the makings of a psychopath as conjectured by a dog experiencing the inhumanities of man to man- the dog stuck with obeying his master and also suffering accordingly; dJBoivin/dFDriancourt?
91 ARMOR OF GOD II - dJChan

90 YUM, YUM, YUM: A TASTE OF CAJUN AND CREOLE COOKING - LBlank
90 WILD AT HEART - for WDafoe and LDern performances; wsBGifford dDLynch DLadd HD Stanton IRosellini CGlover; snake-leather hood NCage and sexy blond LDern elude gallery of grotesques from underbelly of New Orleans and vicinity
90 TWISTER - AFI MRobinson Almereyda DMcDermott SAmis CWoodard HD Stanton CGlover
90 MIAMI BLUES - ABaldwin JJ Leigh
90 MATCH FACTORY GIRL, THE - dAkiKaurismaki
90 LIFE AND NOTHING BUT - wdBTavernier PNoiret SAzuema?
90 INTERNAL AFFAIRS - RGere AGarcia NTravis "An evil LA police officer toys with a division investigator of his case" (LATimes)
90 GOODFELLAS - bNPelaggi (Wise Guys) dMScorsese's "'50s through the '80s bravura look at the lower levels of the New York Mafia through the eyes of Irish-Italian 'wise guy' RLiotta; decaying modern morality, comic chutzpah and violence"(LAT); RDeNiro JPesci PSorvino
90 FRESHMAN, THE - MBroderick MBrando BertParks Komodo dragon
90 EDWARD SCISSORHANDS - fairytale ask for resilience with people that are 'different'; mad scientist VPrice dies before he gives constructed man JDepp real hands; Avon Lady DWiest educates him into her family with greatly misunderstood consequences; dTBurton WRyder AArkin
90 BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES - bTWolfe dBDePalma BWills THanks MGriffith
90 BASHU - Persia
90 AFTER DARK MY SWEET - JThompson MJarre JFoley JPatric RWard BDern

88?WALKER (W Walker Nicaragua)
88 VANISHING GSluizer BPDonnadieu JBridges; Holland
88 TROUBLEMAKER Luxembourg ABausch
88 THIN BLUE LINE dEMorris PGlass RAdams David ???
88 SALAAM BOMBAY MNair
88 POWAQQATSI GReggio PGlass
88 PELLE THE CONQUEROR MA Nexo BAugust MVon Sydow $3.5m
88 MAICOL Ital MBrenta STessarolo
88 FLY II CWalas EStolz DZuniga
88 CHOCOLAT dCDenis EChaulet
88 BUSTER CCollins
88 ANGUISH AGaudi hotel

87 TIN MEN - dBLevinson (the singer!)? RDreyfuss DDiVito
87 THY KINGDOM COME - AThomas
87 TAMPOPO - wdp"Juzo Itami's satire on the culinary and sexual habits and customs of the Japanese framed as mock-Western. A beleaguered widow sees her failing ramen noodle restaurant rescued by gallant noodle adventurer who make her soup best in East". (LAT)
87 STEPFATHER wDEWestlake dJRuben TO'Quinn SHack
87 SHADEY SWilson PSaville ASher KHelmond PMacnee
87 ROBOCOP ferocious and very funny take on robot cop in Detroit setting things right; dPVerhoeven PWeller NAllen
87?RAT BOY dSLocke
87 RADIUM CITY Ottowa Illinois (big error of Down's syndrome inclusion!)
87 PREDATOR JMcTiernan ASchwarzenegger JVentura
87 KITCHEN TOTO HHooks African
87 HANDFUL OF DUST EWaugh CSturridge JWilby KScott RGraves
87 HAIL HAIL THackford CBerry BDiddley Little Richard KRichards
87 GLASS MENAGERIE TWilliams PNewman JWoodward JMalkovich KAllen
87 DIRTY DANCINGPSwazey
87 GAP-TOOTHED WOMEN LBlank
87 DARK EYES dNMikhalkov adapts AChekov tales; SLoren MKeller ESofanova MMastroianni; Italy
87 BROKEN NOSES dBWeber AMinsker
87 BAGDAD CAFE PAdlon MSagebrecht JPalance

86 WANNSEE Conf
86 VAGABOND AVarda SBonnaire
86 TURTLE DIARY RHoban GBurgon HPinter GJackson BKingsley
86 THERESE ACavalier
86 SOMETHING WILD dJDemme MGriffin JDaniels RLiotta
86 RUNNER Iran
86 ROOM WITH A VIEW EM Forster IMerchant JIvory RP Jhabala MSmith DElliott SCallow JSands DD Lewis
86 RISE AND FALL OF THE BORSHT BELT
86 MONA LISA NJordan BHoskins CTyson
86 MARIA CHAPDELAINE GCarle CLaure NMancuso PCursi
86 JAMES JOYCE'S WOMEN FFlanagan
86 HOUR OF THE STAR Brazil
86 HOME OF THE BRAVE LAnderson
86 FLY, THE "This remake of the 1958 horror movie about a reckless scientist -whose molecules get scrambled with a house fly's- far surpasses it" (LAT); bGLangelaan sJClavell dDCronenberg JGoldblum GDavis
86 FAREWELL ILLUSIONS Danish
86 EXTREMITIES WMastrosimone RYoung FFawcett JRusso DScarwid AWoddard
86 DOWN BY LAW JJarmusch JLurie TWaites RBegnini
86 BLUE VELVET - "hypnotic tale of curious lad in apple-cheeked, sunny, all-American Lumberton who is led by severed ear into a nightmarish maze of perversion, voyeurism and crime" (lat); wdDLynch KMacLachlan IRossellini LDern DHopper DStockwell BDourif
86 AT CLOSE RANGE Thompson/J Foley) JFoley SPenn CWalken

85 WITNESS PWeir HFord KMcGillis
85 WHITE NIGHTS THackford Hines MBarishnikov GPage JSkolomowski TTharp Spectre Petipas
85 WETHERBY dDHare VRedgrave IHolm
85 SHOAH CLanzmann 2 parts
85 SALVADOR OStone JWood JBelushi MMurphy JSavage
85 RUNAWAY TRAIN AKurosawa EBunker AKonchalovsky JVoight RMornay
85 PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE PReubens TBurton PW Herman
85 OFFICIAL STORY LPuenzo
85 MY LIFE AS A DOG "AGlanzelius as a loveable, clumsy and slightly befuddled kid in a small village in 1950's Sweden, who's suddenly confronted with the reality of his mother's impending death from TB" (AMCIN); bRJonsson dLHallstrom
85 MAKIOKA SISTERS Tanizaki(bk) KIchikawa
85 LOUIE BLUIE TZwigoff HArmstrong
85 LA TRAVIATA GVerdi FZeffirelli PDomingo TStrata
85 KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN - political prisoner RJulia and 'flaming gay' WHurt (carries the film!) are accessed each other's persona in Brazilian prison cell; often uneven, but still powerful, tour de force conceit-production LSchrader VBabenco
85 HUEY LONG KBurns doc
85 HEIMAT EReitz
85 DANCE WITH A STRANGER dMNewell SDelaney MRichardson IHolm REverrett (R Ellis; last hanging '51)
85 COLONEL REDL ISzabo KM Brandauer AMueller-Stahl
85 ANTONIO GAUDI dTeshigahara's "stunning homage to the Catalan architect whose buildings -Art Nouveau carried to glorious extremes, are every bit as undulating as the sand dunes in his Woman in The Dunes" (LAT)
85?ANGEL Gk hom
85?AMAGI PASS jap
85?AMADEUS sPShaffer F(Salieri) Abramson THulce

84 UTU dGeoff Murphy Anzac Wallace NZ Maori
84 UNDER THE VOLCANO "last hours of alcoholic British consul -impossible romantic -marriage crushed, soul rotting, on Day of The Dead in Mexico; AFinney performance of sodden, magnificent grandeur" (LAT); bMLowrey dJHuston JBisset
84 THIS IS SPINAL TAP - 'mockumentary' on Brit rock group; waCGuest dRReiner MMcKean HShearer Naisbitt FDrescher BCrystal AHuston
84 TERMINATOR JCameron ASchwarzenegger
84 STREETS OF FIRE dWHill's "spectacular, r&r-fueled pulp classic roars at you ... with the radio going full blast. MParre as enigmatic loner who comes back to town to save former gal-pal DLane from clutches of sinister biker chieftain WDafoe" (AMCIN)
84 STREET-WISE TWaits CMcCall ME Mark MBell *SEVENTEEN
84 STRANGER THAN PARADISE JLurie JJarmusch EBalint Screaming Jay Hawkins
84 STOP MAKING SENSE JDemme Talking Heads DByrne
84 SECRET HONOR PBHall "plays RNixon as Lear, Macbeth, Blanche duBois and Krapp poring over every last tape, howling at his enemies, weeping, brandishing a revolver, hurling himself over the abyss of self-pity and madness" (lat); pDFreed dRAltman
84 REPO MAN dACox EEstevez(Sheen) HDStanton KRussell JWarder
84 PASSAGE TO INDIA, A bEMForster AGuiness
84 ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA - mEMoriccone cTDelliColli dSLeone; pastiche of vignettes on (roughly) first fifty years making America; RDeNiro JWoods EMcGovern BYoung TWeld JPesci DAiello
84 METROPOLIS - remake with music by GMoroder AAnt PBenatar of 1926 film with dFLang BrigitteHelm RudolphKlien-Rogge;
84 LIFE AND TIMES OF HARVEY MILK dRSchmiechen
84 KILLING FIELDS, THE wBRobinson dRJoffe SWaterson HNgor
84 GREMLINS wCColumbus dJDante ZGalligan PCates HAxton JReinhold
84?GREYSTOKE, THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES HHudson CLambert RRichardson
84 BURROUGHS [William]: THE MOVIE dHBrookner TSouthern AGinsberg JCurtis
84 BLOOD SIMPLE: "[a] state of fear and confusion that follows an act of murder" (lat): paced shaggy-dog thruout; Texas bar-owner DHedaya hires dishonest detective EEWalsh to kill cheating wife FMcDormand and employee JGelt; pdJ&ECoen
84 ANGELO MY LOVE RDuvall & Bros
84 AND THE SHIP SAILS ON FFellini PBausch
84 AMERICAN HEART dMBell JBridges EFurlong

83 VIDEODROME - "private cable entrepeneur JWoods stumbles on outlaw station broadcasting snuff porn and hypnotizing its viewers into sociopathic and violent hallucinations; his mind begins to crumble" (LAT); dDCronenberg
83 SMITHEREENS SSeidelman SBerman
83 SILKWOOD dMNichols MStreep Cher KRussell CTNelson DScarwid FWard
83 RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE DVigne GDepardieux
83 MEANING OF LIFE TJones MPython
83 MARLENE M Schell
83 L'HOMME AU CHAPEAU DE SOIE M & M Linder
83 KING OF COMEDY MScorsese RDeniro JLewis SBernhard
83? GREY FOX RFarnsworth
83 FLASH DANCE sJBruckheimer Hornaday/dance dALyne(Fatal Attraction) JBeal
83 DIVA JJ Beineix WFernandez DPinon; La Wally Catalani
83 CARMEN - dCSaura's "flamenco dance film draws back-stage parallels to Prosper Merimee's ballad of jealousy and murder; master Antonio Gades and Laura del Sol whirl to Bizet's score with dazzling flashy foot and camera work" (LAT)
83 CANE TOADS: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY - "A chronology of bizarre biological blunders is described as the documentary Monty Python would have made for National Geographic" (LAT) dMLewis
83 BALLAD OF NARAYAMA SImamura
83 A NOS AMOURS dMPialat SBonnaire

82 YOL YGuney Turkish
82 WASN'T THAT A TIME Weavers
82 VICTOR VICTORIA dBEdwards JAndrews RPreston JGarner
82 THING, THE bJCampbell's Who Goes There; dJCarpenter KRussell WBrimley DClennon (see same with JArness'51)
82 SOPHIE'S CHOICE dAPakula KKline PMacNichol
82 QUARTET bJRhys Merchant/wJhabvala/dJIvory MSmith ABates IAdjani AHiggins; 1927, Paris, English money, expatriates, love, adultery, morals, mores, morality and irresolution
82 ONE FROM THE HEART sABernstein/Coppola setsDTavoularis cVStoraro dFCoppola FForrest TGarr RJulia NKinski LKazan HDStanton; masterpiece fairy tale production: life, love and not understanding either in Las Vegas: Greek chorus CGayle/TWaits
82 NIGHT SHIFT HWinkler MKeaton
82 MOONLIGHTING JSkolomowski JIrons Polish workers stranded working illegally(?) in London during Solidarity strikes
82 KOYAANISQATSI - "takes it's title from a Hopi Indian word meaning, among other things, life out of balance, and in an astonishing symphony of sound (PGlass) presents a view of America as a dream turning into a nightmare" dGReggio/RFricke (LAT)
82 FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH - "Introduced bright, fresh talent on both sides of the camera but seems like a movie with ambitions cut down to fit the rigid box office formula that dictates as much sex and nudity as a R rating can sustain and decrees that teenagers never have anything in mind but sex. Even so, it's worth seeing Jennifer Jason Leigh as a Valley girl and Sean Penn as a boisterous air-head surfer." (LAT)
82 EATING RAOUL daPBartel and MWoronov discover killing 'alternative sex' aficionados as finance source of dream restaurant; fall in with small-time crook ABeltran and end up eating him along the way
82 DIVA - in-love-with-voice of (real life) soprano WHigginsFernandez who 'does not record', postman FAndrei makes secret recording; bootlegging, murder, police and surrealism follow; dJJBeineix great near-'shaggy-dog story'; Fr.
82 DEATHTRAP funstuff double-play mystery; dSLumet MCaine CReeve DCannon IWorth HJones
82 DANTON "dAWajda'fervent drama of the Reign of Terror and the battle between Danton (GDepardieu) and Robespierre (WPoszniak) has more than a few contemporary reverberations: It was his first film after Man of Iron and the subsequent crushing of the Solidarity movement in Poland" (LAT)
82 COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN - "dreams, hero-worship, waste and ambivalence among members of the Jimmy Dean fan club ... where all emotions are scalpeled, dreams lanced, illusions stripped bare" (lat) pEGraczyk dRAltman KBlack SDennis Cher KBates
82 BURDEN OF DREAMS LBlank *FITZCUARALDO CKinski
82 BLADE RUNNER PKDick's Do Androids-' "One of the great 80's movies. Set in a dystopian LA enveloped in high-tech shimmer, blanketed in darkness, rain and gadgetry -a mix of gaudy Wonderland and City of Night" (LAT); dRScott HFord DHannah RHauser

81 ZOOT SUIT mDValcez wdLValdez DValdez EJOlmos TDaly
81 VERNON FLORIDA USA documentarian EMorris looks at some of the nuttier types in small-town Vernon Florida
81 TIME BANDITS dTGilliam RRichardson SConnery SDuvall (M Python)
81 S.O.B. dBEdwards RPreston JAndrews; "vicious attack on the Hollywood power brokers who some would say have bottom-lined creativity out of the industry."
81 ROAD WARRIOR MelGibson
81 PORKY'S Bob Clark CMitchell DMonahan KCattrall AKarras
81 POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE cSNykvist dRRafelson JNicholson JLang; (see 1946 original)
81 POLYESTER JWaters Divine THunter
81 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN (sung by Arthur Tracy) BPeters SMartin
81 MEPHISTO Klaus Mann (Thomas bro) ISzabo KM Brandauer
81 LOLA dRFassbinder reworks Blue Angel; AMueller-Stahl BarbaraSukova BrigitteMira
81 LILI MARLENE - song by Norbert Schultze after WWI poem The Song of a Young Sentry by German soldier Hans Leip; dRFassbinder HSchygulla GGianni MFerrer BMira ;
81 HOWLING, THE DWallace's bad brush with psychopath sends her and husband CStone off to a 'retreat' (of werewolves!) at suggestion of psychiatrist PMacnee; JCarradine
81 GALLIPOLI PWeir MGibson MLee
81 FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN dKReisz JIrons LMcKern
81 EXCALIBUR dJBoorman NTerry RWagner NWilliamson
81 DAS BOOT JProchnow WPetersen
81 COUP DE TORCHON (Clean Slate) white 'human condition'-sensitive cop becomes sword-of-god to WAfr village low-lifers at the edge of WWII; JThompson Pop 1280 dBTavernier JFoley PNoiret IHuppert
81 CHARIOTS OF FIRE - "Scottish missionary who won't race on Sunday and a Jewish Cambridge student who never stops racing- and their special purgatory and triumph at the 1924 Olympics" (LAT); sCWelland mVangelis HHudson
81 CELESTE - EMatis is faithfully patient servant in profile of JArndt's rich, effete and self-indulgent Marcel Proust; dPAdlon
81 ATLANTIC CITY - dLMalle BLancaster SSarandon

80?WALTZING POLICEMEN - short
80 THEME - Russian GPanilov
80 TAXI ZUM KLOS - autobiographical in which philandering kindergarten teacher wdFrankReploh struggles to work out a stable relationship with monogamous stay-at-home lover;
80 STARDUST MEMORIES - 'wdWAllen gives us himself as a neurotic, lady-killing, famed director-comic besieged by fans and hangers-on per Fellini's 8 1/2 -a very bitter showy, self-revealing film'; CRampling TRoberts MChristineBarrault JHarper (LAT)
80 SHINING (THE) - dSKubrick reworks "wSKing's tale about possession by demonic hotel, little boy with ESP and [possessed] alcoholic writer-father (JNicholson) in masterpiece of cold, paranoid composition"; wife SDuvall, SCrothers, Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" (LAT)
80 RAGING BULL - "... DeNiro's ... portrayal of the champion boxer LaMotta is created deeply from within ... black-and-white, cMChapman. ... impeccable period piece and ... expression of the Italian-American experience" (LAT); dMScorsese
80 POPEYE - sJFeiffer dRAltman SDevall RWilliams
80 LA CAGE AUX FOLLES - EMolinaro UTognazzi MSerrault
80?IDI AMIN DADA - dBShroeder
80 GLORIA - "fugitive son of a Mob accountant whose family has been wiped out by the Mob's killers flees them through the New York streets aided by a tough moll GRowlands dJCassavetes BHenry" (LAT)
80 GODS MUST BE CRAZY Botswana JUys Marius Weyers(*Kafka)
80 GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS LBlank
80 ELEPHANT MAN - "story of grotesquely deformed John Merrick/Merrit (JHurt) shown compassion for the first time in his life by eminent Brit doctor (AHopkins)" (lat); dDLynch
80 BREAKER MORANT dBBeresford EWoodward CTingwell
80 AIRPLANE outrageous comedy wdZuckerBros RHays JHaggerty LBridges LNielsen PGraves RStack

79 ROSE BMidler (Janis Joplin)
79 RAONI JP Duttilleux Amazon
79 OBLOMOV bGoncharov dMikhalkov Russian
79 NOSFERATU WHerzog KKinski IAdjani BGanz
79 MEATBALLS dIReitman BillMurray
79 LIFE OF BRIAN - just great Monty Python! -variation on 'The Passion of Christ' -some stuff now 'politically incorrect' with respect to some mentally disabled etc but still great;
79 KILLER OF SHEEP - "CBurnett made this beautiful and anguished documentary-like account of several days in the life of an LA slaughterhouse worker (wonderfully played by Henry Gayle-Sanders) and his family. Poetic and powerful". (LAT)
79 DRACULA dBalderston-Deane sEGorey setsJBadham LOlivier FLangella (Tod Browning BLugosi)
79 CHINA SYNDROME dJBridges JFonda JLemmon
79 APOCALYPSE NOW (and) REDUX (re-release) - both releases: towering productions thruout; disparate additions in REDUX release, however, divulge dFCoppola's rage not seen in essentially integral initial release; sMHerr MBrando MSheen DHopper RDuvall
79 ALIEN dRScott SWeaver YKotto JHurt IHolm HD Stanton

78 WOYZECK excellent and faithful rending of 1850 Georg Buchner's Wozzeck; military and scientific arrogance driving the honest and simple soldier insane; dWHerzog KKinski EMattes
78 WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN "one of the more interesting and impassioned of the period's wave of Vietnam War films; RNolte caught between evil, the road and death when he stumbles into heroin-smuggling scheme" (lat); bRStone (Dog Soldiers) dKReisz MMoriarty RSharkey TWeld
78 SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE - "dRDonner's movie of the Superman legend; Krypton's destruction, his boyhood in Smallville, journalistic endeavors and clashes with the perfidious Lex Luthor (GHackman?); grandly scaled but tongue in cheek and fast-paced; CReeve MKidder" (LAT) MBrando
78 STRAIGHT TIME bEBunker (No Beast So Fierce)
78 SHOUT, THE bRGraves sMAustin/(d)JSkolomowski ABates JHurt SYork TCurry gothic madness, dark powers and sex, but weak screenplay turning on man with 'power to kill' with his shout
78 PIRANHA JSayles KWynn BDillman BSteele
78 MIDNIGHT EXPRESS OStone AParker (BHayes)BDavis JHurt DQuaid PSmith
78 MARTIN (present-day Pittsburgh Dracula) GRomero JAmplas LMaazel
78 MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN dRFassbinder HSchygulla
78 IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS dRFassbinder VSpengler German
78 GETTING STRAIGHT HFord RBush DHoffman GBusey HD Stanton (?70)
78 GATES OF HEAVEN EMorris
78 ERASERHEAD DLynch JNance
78 DRIVER, THE dWHill's "homage to JPMelville and the Euro crime film sports car chases to rival Bullitt and The French Connection" (amcin); RO'Neal BDern IAdjani
78 DAWN OF THE DEAD GRomero DEnge KForee
78 BOYS FROM BRAZIL GPeck JMason

77 THREE WOMEN dJAltman JCromwell? JRule SDuvall SSpacek
77 SORCERER dWFriedkin's remake of (Fr)dHClouzot's Wages of Fear; 4 disparate desperados end up in jungle village, see delivering explosives to 'off' burning oil well as way out; flabby ending; RScheider BCremer FRabal
77 PROVIDENCE mBHerman sDMercer dJLosey; "JGielgud stars as a brilliant, Machiavellian writer who hallucinates his last novel using his family members" (amcin); DBogarde EBurstyn DWarner
77 LAST WAVE, THE dPWeir's more interesting and audacious Australian films confronts Melbourne lawyer RChamberlain with aborigine DGupilil accused of slaughter ... layers of culture, spirituality and darkness the lawyer can never fathom; (lat)
77 KILLER OF SHEEP - an incredibly great documentary-quality film takes a slice-of-life look at the idle-mind poverty of daily life in 1970s Watts (Los Angeles) -should be seen by everyone; dCharles Burnett
77 KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE
77 JULIA LHellman (Scoundrel Time) dFZinneman VRedgrave JFonda
77 DEMON SEED 77 CITIZENS BAND/HANDLE WITH CARE JDemme
77 A SPECIAL DAY dEttore Scola SLoren MMastorianni; suicidal homosexual has unexpected interlude with SLoren whose husband is out celebrating Facist parade with the children; Italy

76 TAXI DRIVER - "RDeNiro is riveting in the title role as a deeply disturbed exMarine who takes a job as a Manhattan cabbie and becomes progres- sively enraged at all that he witnesses" (LAT); mBHerman wPSchrader dMScorsese JFoster GWallace CShepard HKeitel PBoyle?
76 STAY HUNGRY "an offbeat little piece of contemporary Deep South naturalism. The subject: muscle-building" (lat) ; dRRafelson ASchwarzenegger fiddles SFields JBridges
76 OMEN [see DAMIEN]GPeck L Remick "are unknowing parents of the little son of Satan (HStephens)"
76 MISTER KLEIN dJLosey; art dealer(ADelon) buys WWII fleeing Jews' artworks until discovering Nazis looking for someone by same last name; enigmatic ending: commits self (being/becoming Jewish?) to boarding death-camp train.
76 MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH MTrevis DBowie RTorn
76 I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME wdRFassbinder VZeplichal
76 COUSIN, COUSINE - dTdePlantier JCTachella VLanoux MCBarrault
76 CARRIE - wSKing SSpacek AIrving JTravolta EBuckley PLaurie

75 SMILE - sJBelson dMRitchie; "BDern MKidd BFeldon GLewis are group of civic boosters desperately trying to stage a teenage beauty pageant in Sant Rosa Calif" (AMCIN); NPryor AO'Toole MGriffith DDugan
75 ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW - "The outrageous camp musical spoofing horror movies, starring Tim Curry, continues to amuse audiences" (LAT); SSarandon TCurry
75 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - bKKesey MForman JNichols BDourif LFletcher DDiVito WSampson; see 'Titicut -'
75 MOTHER KUSTER'S TRIP TO HEAVEN - Mutter Kuster Fahrt zum Himmel dRFassbinder BrigitteMira
75 LOVE AND DEATH - "Plays like an extended vaudeville sketch whose humor is based most often on a fine mismating of then and now in which Allen casts himself as a coward caught up in the Napoleonic Wars. Diane Keaton costars" (LAT)
75 LOST HONOR OF KATHERINA BLUM - bHeinrich Boll dVSchlondorff Angela Winkler
75 GREY GARDENS - pdMaysles Bros; shamelessly voyeuristic take on (Grey Gardens estate wealth gone) Edith Bouvier [JKennedy, aunt,cousin] Beale Sr,Jr on stage for camera
75 DOG DAY AFTERNOON - "two wildly inept bank robbers take the bank workers hostage to barter their way out -are all trapped in a citywide, grotesque carnival of crime and punishment; based on real events; humor, humanity intensity; wFPierson dSLumet APacino JCazale CSarandon CDurning" (LAT)
75 DAY OF THE LOCUST,THE - "bNWest's spare and surreal and mean Hollywood novel about the people on the fringes in the golden glutted '30's: dreamers, swindlers and the doomed "(LAT); sWSalt dJSchlesinger DSutherland KBlack WAtherton GPage BMeredith BBarry
75 DERSU UZALA(THE HUNTER) - (biographical with Dersu -himself?) dKurosawa bVKArseniev
75 DEATH RACE 2000 - sRThom cBGriffith dPBartel DCarradine SStallone MGibson MWaronov
75 BARRY LONDON - WM bThackeray dSKubrick RO'Neal MBerenson PMcGee
75?BARBARSHOP - Cassevetes short

74 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - THooper MBurns GHansen
74 PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE - BDePalma PWilliams
74 PARALLAX VIEW - "Impetuous reporter WBeatty's hunt for a political assassin turns more and more terrifying as each successive layer of corruption and right-wing insanity is unpeeled" (amcin); dAPakula PPrentiss, WDaniels HCronyn
74 GODFATHER PART 2 - dFFCoppola follows APacino as he consolidates power in the Las Vegas gambling world of late 50s , while simultaneously flashing back to father RDeNiro's brutal induction into the Mafia in 1900's Sicily and NY."
74 [FLESH FOR] FRANKENSTEIN AWharhol's? dPMorrisey JDallesandro MVanVooren UdoKier AJuerging SZelenovic (BKarloff 1932)
74 DARK STAR
74 CYCLE, THE dHMershadi DMehrjui Iran
74 CHINATOWN wRTowne daRPolanski JNicholson FDunaway DLadd JHillerman BYoung; roman-a-clef: Los Angeles water/land-manipulator Mulholland

73 WESTWORLD - futuristic thriller; adults indulge robot-serviced fantasies in theme park, but robots go awry; dMCrichton YBrynner RBenjamin JBrolin
73 WALKING TALL BPusser JD Baker EHartman
73 SOYLENT GREEN - "Future cop Heston tries to track down a minor politician's killer and uncovers the ultimate horror of mankind's new place in the food chain. With Edward G.Robinson in the final film role" (LAT).
73 SLEEPER dWAllen
73 SHAFT IN AFRICA
73 LONG GOODBYE wRChandler dRAltman SHayden NinaVanPallen EGould ArtieJohnson ASchwarzeneggar
73 ICE MAN COMETH American Film Theater EO'Neill FMarch LMarvin BDillman JBridges
73 HARDER THEY COME PHenzell JCliff Jamaica
73 EXORCIST bpsWBlatty dWFriedkin EBurstyn JMiller MvonSydow LBlair(voice: McCambridge) LJCobb WO'Malley
73 ENTER THE DRAGON BruceLee ChuckNorris JohnSaxon truely balletic kung fu Hong Kong
73 ELECTRA-GLIDE BLUE - "at once the story of a man's discovery of himself, a murder mystery and a tragic comment on contemporary America. It's an all-stops-out, razzle-dazzle kind of film that constantly overreaches yet commands attention and even involvement -at least part of the way. RBlake stars as an Arizona motorcycle cop who dreams of making detective" (LAT) dWGuerico
73 DRACULA AWHARHOL'S pCPonti dPMorrisey JDallesandro UKier VDeSica RPolanski
73 DISTANT THUNDER SRay SChatterji
73 DAY OF THE JACKAL dFZinneman JFox
73?COLD DAY IN THE PARK dRAltman SDennis MBurns MMurphy JGarfieldJr
73 BADLANDS dTMalick SSpacek MSheen
73 AGUIRRE (Lope de), THE WRATH OF GOD (Zorn Gottes) 1560 Pizarro-following Spanish crazy KKinski seeks El Delorado up the Amazon; dWHerzog $700k; Germ
73 A BRIEF VACATION RSalvatori CZavattini VDeSica FBolkan

72 WHAT'S UP DOC? "Director Peter Bogdanovich, writers, Buck Henry, Robert Benton and David Newman, and stars Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand in a sometimes labored, often amusing stab at reviving the spirit of screwball comedy" (LAT)
72 SUPERFLY RO'Neal 72 SAVE THE TIGER SShagan JLemon JGilford
72 PLOT AGAINST HARRY MRoemer MPriest
72 PINK FLAMINGOS dJWaters Divine EMassey
72 PAYDAY dDDuke's "blistering, rarely-seen protrait of country music stars [RTorn] of 70's" (amcin)
72 MEAN STREETS wdMScorsese RDeNiro HKeitel precedent-setting but crude slice-of-life take on budding NY mafiosi
72 GODFATHER, THE bMPuzo dFFCoppola RDuvall RDeniro DKeaton APacino JCaan SHayden
72 FELLINI ROMA
72 EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX AND WERE AFRAID TO ASK bDrDavidReuben dWAllen GeneWilder
72 CRIES AND WHISPERS IBergman LUllman IThulin BAndersen

71 WALKABOUT culture-clash parable questions value of civilization; Australian bro and sis are lost in the desert and saved by native on his 'walkabout' dNRoeg DGulpilil JAgater LJohn
71 VANISHING POINT 'Delaney and Bonnie (Raitt) and Friends' dRSarafian CleavonLittle DJaeger; BNewman in tour-de-force, 'determined' auto-and-drugs delivery outmaneuvering cops into eventual suicide;
71 THX 1138 dGLucas DPleasance RDuvall and girlfriend escape from 1984 of the future;
71 MILLHOUSE: A WHITE COMEDY EDeAntonio *Nixon
71 LAST PICTURE SHOW bLMcMurtry dPBogdanovich CShepard CLeachman JBridges EBurstyn RQuaid TBottoms BJohnson; nostalgia-plus in dying, late'50's, dusty, wind-blown town
71 HEAT pAWarhol dPMorrisey JDallesandro Sylvia Miles
71 GET CARTER dMHodges MCaine
71 GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS bGBassini vVDeSica DSanda
71 FRENCH CONNECTION dWFriedkin GHackman RScheider FRey; heavy-duty drug shipment chase-and-bust;
71 EL TOPO AJodorowski
71?DUSTY AND SWEETS
71 COUNT YORGA VAMPIRE RQuarry Quayle?
71 CLOCKWORK ORANGE wABurgess dSKubrick MMcDowell PMcGee ACorri
71 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE - "sJFeiffer's American male sexual adventuring and impotence dMNichols (with an edge of romantic despair). Ann-Margret AGarfunkel CBergen and JNicholson as would be stud" (LAT)
71 BANANAS dWAllen JMcKay HCosell SStallone

70 WHERE'S POPPA? - grim, but really funny black humor wherein mind-failing mother living in the past intrudes on every aspect of NY lawyer son's trying to find love and get on with life; dCReiner GSegal RGordon RLiebman TvanDevere RReiner
70 SORROW AND PITY, THE - Max Ophuls documents Nazi occupation of Paris and France
70 MIDNIGHT COWBOY JO'Herlihy WSalt JSchlesinger FNeal HNeilson JVoight DHoffman BVaccaro Viva Aqua?
70 LITTLE BIG MAN "great, picaresque westren about lone survivor of Little Big Horn massacre: a savage, heart-rending tale of majestic civilization and its slaughter and slow decay" (lat); wTBerger s/wCWillingham DHoffman ChiefGeorge;
70 JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR mALWebber sTRice dNJewison TNeely(Jesus) DBowie(Pilate)
70 I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER sRAnderson dGCates MDouglas GHackman EParsoms
70 FIVE EASY PIECES - "JNicholson as drifter who has forsaken his family of gifted musicians to work as an oil field roughneck; odyssey of self-discovery, touching on rootlessness and dissatisfactions of contemporary life" (LAT); wAJoyce dBRafelson KBlack SAnspach
70 CONFORMIST, THE - damaged and repressed (molested-child, aristocratic-family), pre-WWII fascist callaborator prof JTrintignant 'just wants to be like everyone else' -denounces fascists after war; brilliantly surreal thruout; bAMoravia cVStoraro dBBertolucci DSanda
70 BREWSTER McCLOUD dRAltman's 'crie de coeur' allegory; angel SKellerman helps BCort build wings to fly out of the human condition, but his loss of innocence to SDuvall fails her; wildly satirical, great pathos; MMurphy SKeach WWindom, Houston Astrodome
70 BREWSTER McCLOUD 'crie de coeur' about the loss of innocence and death in a fucked-up world; "whimsical, extravagantly satiric farce about a flying boy in the Houston Astrodome" (lat); dRAltman BCort SDuvall MMurphy SKellerman SKeach WWindom

69 WILD BUNCH dSPeckinpah WHolden RRyan EBorgnine WOates SMartin LQJones AArau EO'Brien JSanchez BJohnson
69 THEY SHOOT HORSES DON'T THEY HMcCoy JFonda GYoung RButtons APerkins
69 TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE dAPolonsky RBlake RRedford KRoss
69 PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE bMSpark dRNeame MSmith
69 FELLINI SATYRICON - "bPetronius' ancient Rome in all its sybaritic splendor and foulness--as imagined and visualized (through the filter of the '60s, in their highest decadence - dFFellini); an eerie mixture of excess and serenity ... a tragic sense of life's impermanence" (LAT)
69 COLOSSUS, THE FORBIN PROJECT MCaine?
69 BURNed (Queimada) "MBrando stars as William Walker in this real-life saga about 19th century British imperialists who instigate a slave revolt in the Caribbean" (LAT) mEMoriconne dGPontecorvo (CEastwood)
69 BOB AND CAROL AND TED AND ALICE dPMazursky EGould DCannon RCulp NWood
69 BLUES ACCORDING TO LIGHTENING HOPKINS LBlank

68 YELLOW SUBMARINE - great fun animated music by The Beatles! dGDunning;
68 TARGETS dPBogdanovich BKarloff(WHPratt) TO'Kelly; loosely based on Charles Whitman's sniper spree from Univ of Texas bell -tower.
68 SWIMMER, THE bJCheever dFPerry "follows BLancaster on metaphoric journey swimming from backyard pool to backyard pool, headed towards a home that may no longer exist" (amcin); 'Death Of A Salesman' -on the beach (LAT)
68 ROMEO AND JULIET WShakespeare FZeffirelli MYork OHussey BRobinson
68 PRODUCERS, THE WShawn AMostel GWilder
68 PRETTY POISON compulsive liar APerkins is paroled to a small town where secret-agent fantasy life fuels romance with budding cheerleader (liar/fire-bug sociopath) TWeld; disastrous results -broadside on modern society; sLSempleJr dNBlack BGarland
68 PHANTOM INDIA LMalle
68 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - "z-budget horror classic about a lot of radiation-drenched zombie cannibal corpses plaguing the countryside around Pittsburgh, and their bickering, terrorized victims, pinned down in an isolated farmhouse" (lat); dGRomero
68 BOSTON STRANGLER serial killer AlbertDeSalvo docudrama; sEAnhalt dRFleisher TCurtis HFonda
68 BARBARELLA - "Jane Fonda [brings] a wide-eyed innocence to her sexy space traveler" (LAT); dRVadim JCForest JFonda JPLaw DHemmings
dRVadim JCForest JFonda JPLaw DHemmings UTognazzi?
68 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - great vision and production by a movie-making idiosyncrat, but what does it all mean? -supernatural black slab (evolving deliberative capability?), flawless computer (HAL) goes crazy? -spacemen whizzing thru space/time warps? dSKubrick KDullea

67 TITICUT FOLLIES FWiseman; Bridgewater Mass insane asylum; see 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'
67 WAIT TIL DARK - 'Terrifying thriller in which AHepburn protrays a blind woman terrorized by drug dealers who break into her home'(LAT); pMFerrer AArkin
67 MARAT/SADE - Peter Brook's film transcription of his fiery, legendary staging of Peter Weiss' play, in which the Marquis de Sade' presents a mad-house re-creation of the assassination of French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat. Brilliant, incandescent, truly spine-tingling; it also introduced then-unknown Glenda Jackson as Charlotte Corday. With Ian Richardson.(LAT)
67 IN COLD BLOOD - "the senseless murder of a Kansas family and the relentless pursuit, capture and execution of their killers, Perry Smith (RBlake), Dick Hickock (SWilson). A film that manages to be bleak, violent and sentimental all at once, shot in cold evocative monochrome by Hall, and based and TCapote's classic of reportage". sdRBrooks bTCapote dRBrooks(LAT)
67 GRADUATE, THE - wCWillingham/BHenry use young California college graduate DHoffman's confusion as broadside on artificialities of '60 well-to-do life: ABancroft seduction, KRoss romance; dMNichols' songs by Simon/Garfunkel
67 DON'T LOOK BACK DAPennebaker London 1965; interesting for BobDylan's hippie-representative take on reporting, politics, his music etc
67 COOL HAND LUKE dSRosenberg GKennedy PNewman SMartin
67 BONNIE AND CLYDE - "dArthurPenn beautifully re-creates the Midwest Depression '30--and then blows it all to hell in an astonishing crescendo of violence. A modern masterpiece; WBeatty FDunaway GHackman EParsons MJPollard GWilder" (LAT).

66 WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? - "RBurton and ETaylor in the movie adaptation of EAlbee's most famous play; a bitchy O'Neillish Walpurgisnacht in academia; dMNichols GSegal SDennis" (LAT)
66 HUNGER KHamsun PLagerqvist HCarlsen POscarsson GLindblom
66 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST MATHEW PPasolini
66 BLOW-UP - "Michelangelo Antonioni's puzzle-story about appearances, illusion and modern alienation takes place in a pop'60s London unlike any other shown at the time: It has a chilly beauty, and the people in it seem vaguely narcotized, disconnected drifters. In the midst of this curious ennui, a callous photographer who keeps snapping away at everything, churning out images, believes he may accidentally have witnessed a murder. Obsessively he tries to blow up the photographic clues. It's an ingenious central notion-based on a Julio Corazar story-and an icily brilliant film. The cast includes David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles and the mid-'60s Yardbirds. Herbie Hancock wrote the score". (LAT)

65 WEST SIDE STORY - "choreography to the staging and music, Romeo and Juliet re-imagined as (RBeymer and NWood) of New York City street gangs; movie of the mLBernstein Broadway musical, dRWise RMoreno RTamblyn GChakiris" (LAT)
65 TOKYO OLYMPIAD - uncut version of KIchikawa's splendid, distinctive documentary on the 1964 Olympics; an extraordinary record of the grace, valor and concentration of the greatest athletes of the time
65 REPULSION RPolanski CDeneuve
65 CAT BALLOU rollicking, light musical western; land-baron's hired killer(LMarvin) offs rancher for water rights; daughter(JFonda) goes trainrobber; hires killer's shootist-drunkard-bro(LM) to off him; dESilverstein
65 BATTLE OF ALGIERS - dGPontecorvo on "the time of the inner-city uprising that became known as 'the battle of Algiers', Nov 1, '54 - Oct 7 '57" (LAT); non-professional thousands and action indistinguishable from the real thing; waSaadiYacef JMartin, Brahim Haggiag; Fr.
65 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS dVMinelli GGershwin GKelly LCaron

64 ZULU wdCyril Enfield SBaker JHawkins UJacobson MCaine S Baker MCaine Mongo etc; Buthelezi: 'Inkata Freedom Party'
64 PUMPKIN EATER dJClayton ABancroft
64 POINT OF ORDER EDe Antonio JMcCarthy HUAC SErvin? RWelch
64 ORGANIZER, THE - dMMonuicelli MMastroianni; law professor undertakes unionizing Turin textile workers; Italy
64 MY FAIR LADY bAJLerner mFLoewe GBShaw' Pygmalion sAJLerner dGCukor p&costumes CBeaton AHepburn RHarrison SHalloway WHyde-White GCooper
64 LILITH dRRossen; over-the-top "nameless dread, weird poetics, fevers of sex and loneliness"; asylum attendant WBeatty becomes mad himself falling in love with nymphomaniac patient JSeburg; RWalker
64 HARD DAY'S NIGHT - the Beatles -a mindless romp -what else is there to say?
64 FOR A FIST FULL OF DOLLARS dSLeone mEMoriconi GianMariaVolonte CEastwood YOJIMBO
64 FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (A) The Western, shot in Italy, based on Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (with a mercenary for hire destroying his warring employers in a corrupt town), improbably became a huge worldwide hit and the progenitor of an entire sub- genre, the spaghetti Western. The director is Sergio Leone, the star Clint Eastwood, the head villain is by Glan Maria Volonte, and the hypnotic music is by Ennio Morricone. The combination still sizzles. (LAT)
64 DOCTOR STRANGELOVE 'nuclear holocaust imagined as a nightmare comedy; SKubrick's terrifyingly hilarious, hip massterpiece, with a triple-role tour de force by PSellers (lat); SHayden KWynn

63 8 1/2 -OTTO E MEZZO 'Fellini-Iike director' MMastroianni tries to escape chaos of his life at a health spa -mistresses, producers and surreal fantasies; mNRota CCardinale AAimee BSteele
63 TOM JONES "bHFielding's classic picaresque novel about a lusty foundling, traveling through the wanton excesses and hypocrisies of 18th-century England, becomes a big tongue-in cheek social comedy extravaganza" (LAT); sJOsborne. dTRichardson AFinney SYork DWarner EEvans HGriffith JGreenwood
63 THIS SPORTING LIFE - "miner [AFinney] becomes amateur soccer star and becomes tragically involved with troubled widow -linked emotional and physical violence in player's life" (LAT) ; wDStroey dLAnderson RRoberts
63 SERVANT, THE sHPinter dJLosey "weak aristocrat (JFox) gradually finds life taken over by his insinuating manservant (DBogarde)";
63 LORD OF THE FLIES bWGolding dPBrooks; English schoolboys air-crashed and stranded on tropical island go savage in absence of civilizing social forces.
63 HUD - Based on Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By," "Hud" was intended as a modern western moral fable with an idolatrous teen-ager (Brandon DeWilde) forced to choose between good (Melvyn Douglas as his upright granddad) and evil (Paul Newman, as his womanizing bounder of a brother). Unfortunately, Newman makes such a rapaciously attractive cowboy rascal that the movie sometimes subverts itself. Martin Ritt directs Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.'s script; the cast (including Patricia Neal as a salty housekeeper) is excellent; and master cinematographer Howe makes the sky seem, hot and endless." (LAT)
63 DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, THE Howard Keel
63 8 1/2 mNRota dFFellini MMastroianni AAimee CCardinale?

62 VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (Greenwich? Midwich? Cuckoos school-teacher GSanders saves human life from super-bright, mind-reading children of extra-terrestrials who impregnated women of English village one day in which no seems to know what happened
62 MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE bRCondon sGAxelrod dJFrankenheimer; FSinatra unravels LHarvey's 'starting to act strange'; Korean War brainwashing, control-freak mother ALansbury, right-wing pres-candidate hubby JGregory (Sen JMcCarthy)
62 LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER, THE bASillitoe dTRichardson TCourtney MRedgrave AMcCowen JFox
62 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA - "beautiful, near-godlike PO'Toole as the tortured Man Who Would Not Be King [TELawrence] in dDLean's absolute masterpiece" (AMCIN); cFYoung/NRoeg sRBolt AGuiness AQuinn AKennedy OSharif JFerrer JHawkins AQuayle
62 EXTERMINATING ANGEL - cGFigueroa dLBunuel's toweringly surreal excoriation of how religion and the church leads us all to slaughter; SilviaPinal ClaudioBrook
62 BILLY BUDD - bHMelville PUstinov(3) RRyan TStamp

61 YOJIMBO - adrift, out of work samurai enters town sinking under two warring gangs; thru various offers to 'join each against the other', and other ploys and much swordplay, he 'cleans up the town'; dAKurosawa
61 VIRIDIANA - dLBunuel criticizes Spain's "sexual, religious and social hypocrasies. Novice nun SPinal drives her perverted uncle FRabal to lust and suicide; atoning for her sin by helping the poor, the poor prove just as depraved" (LAT); FRey
61 INNOCENTS, THE - dJClayton HJames TCapote JClayton DKerr
61 IL POSTO - "wistful and humane study of alienation in the workplace; non-professional actor SPanzeri plays provincial boy angling for 'a job for life' at large industrial firm -office messenger begins his awkward climb up corporate ladder" (LAT)
61 GUNS OF NAVARONE - WWII commando raid thriller set on Greek coast; bAMacLean sCForeman dJLeeThompson GPeck AQuinn DNiven RHarris SBaker IPappas
61 EL CID - "dAMann sPYordan/BBarzman adapt Racine's tragedy, with predictably gargantuan, hell-for-leather results. Sophia Laren, Raf vallone and Geraldine Page offer classy support while Charlton Heston plays an indomitable hero" (LAT)
61 DEAD ON ARRIVAL - dRudolphMate Field EO'Brien NBrand
61 BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ - RStroud Frankenheimer BLancaster KMalden TRitter BField EO'Brien NBrand

60 TUNES OF GLORY - dRNeame JMills AGuiness
60 TIME MACHINE - bHGWells RodTaylor YMimieux SCabot take "Victorian-times ride into apocalyptic future battle between selves, Eloi and Morlocks".
60 SAVAGE INNOCENTS, THE - bHRuesch Top of the World dNRay AQuinn PO'toole
60 ELMER GANTRY - "bSLewis' muckraking novel about a hypocritical, hell-raising evangelist ... roaring carny huckster, BLancaster ... JSimmons SJones AKennedy DJagger wdRBrooks cJAlton" (LAT)
60 BELL' ANTONIO, IL - dMBolognini CCardinale MMastroianni; Sicilian Casanova rendered impotent by beautiful wife's purity; Italy

59 ARAYA - 1959 dwMargotBenecerraf's poetic essay documents profoundly routine lives of salineros workers working Venezuelan salt marsh since 16th century discovery -worsening at industrialization; excellent, but not for everyone
59 BREATHLESS - dJLGodard's film about restless, shoot-from-the-hip pretty but stylish Paris thief JPBelmondo and vapid American girl Jean Seberg who casually betrays him; Fr
59 EYES WITHOUT A FACE - first rate film; "poetic horror film about a demented doctor (PBrasseur) determined to restore his daughter's disfigured face" mMJarre (LAT) cESchufftan dGFranju; Fr.
59 400 BLOWS dFTruffaut JP Leaud
59 FIRES ON THE PLAIN KIchikawa's film portrays demoralized Japanese forces in the Philippines at the end of WWII who turn to cannibalism to survive. Although a participant in his army's many degradation, Tamura is also a man apart; already doomed by tuberculosis, he is not possessed of the same desperate will to live. He retains a proud, sad memory of what it was to be human -until his last illusions are dispelled. (LAT) 58 HORSE'S MOUTH, THE bJCary dRNeame AGuiness LtKije
58 FLY, THE dKNeumann VPrice POwens HMarshall
58 BLOB, THE Steve McQueen
58 A GIRL CALLED ROSEMARIE - excellent thruout; real-life-based MMonroe-type Rosemarie Nitribitt (Nadja Tiller) beds her feral but uncruel way up mid-50's WGerman capitalist recovery, falls in love with client and is eventually murdered; dRThiele pBEichinger

57 WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION - "courtroom melodrama with triple-reverse surprise ending; accused TPower, seemingly heartless wife MDietrich, wily barrister CLaughton and his nurse ELancaster; bAChristie dBWilder" -LAT
57 PATHS OF GLORY sCWillingham&JThompson dSKubrick AMenjou KDouglas RMeeker GMacready TCarey
57 FIRE DOWN BELOW RHayworth RMitchum JLemon ANewley (song) TeriSouthern
57 FACE IN THE CROWD, A - arrogantly high-riding AGriffith is tumbled from presidential candidacy in grim satire of presidential elections and its constituency; wBSchulbergs dEKazan PNeal
57 ENEMY BELOW, THE dDickPowell CJurgens RMitchum
57 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI - s/wCWillingham AGuiness

56 FORBIDDEN PLANET - (aft Shakespeare's Tempest?) WDisneyFX WPidgeon LNielsen AFrancis EHolliman
56 DIABOLIQUE SSignoret
56 BAD SEED (THE) - "Despite a then-obligatory Hollywood ending, Mervyn LeRoy's film was pretty strong stuff, with Nancy Kelly and little Patty McCormack re- creating their stage roles as a mother distraught by her inexplicably evil daughter." (LAT)

55 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE - wSStern dNRay NWood JDean SMineo DHopper JBackus
54 ON THE WATERFRONT - "dEKazan's masterpiece about union corruption on the docks, about the underbelly of the American dream-a movie classic" (LAT); sBSchulberg mLBernstein vBKaufman MBrando EMSaint KMalden LJCobb RSteiger
54 M HULOT's HOLIDAY - JTati
54 CAINE MUTINY - bHWouk dEDmytryk LNolan HBogart FMacMurray VJohnson
54 A STAR IS BORN - "JGarland is rising star discovered by JMason, as a matinee idol on the skids" (LAT); wMHart mHArlen dGCukor
53 JULIUS CAESAR dJMankiewicz MBrando JGielgud JMason DKerr GGarson
52 WHITE SHEIK dFFellini MAntonioni GMassina
52 UMBERTO D deSica's usual "man's inhumanity to man" (unresolved again); post WWII inability of Italian government to increase pensions is played 'amusingly with tears' thru the difficulties of retired old man (philology real ex-professor CBattisti) and his dog;
52 SINGING IN THE RAIN GKelly DO'Conner DReynolds
52 MEMBER OF THE WEDDING "JHarris is 12-year old girl traumatized by the approach of puberty and her older brother's impending wedding; EWaters as family cook, with BdeWilde as owlish next-door neighbor" (AMCIN); bCMcCullers dFZinnemann
52 CRIMSON PIRATE BLancaster
51 THING, THE bJCampbell JArness
51 STREETCAR NAME DESIRE - "bTWilliams' steam modern classic. A fragile and promiscuous traditional sensibility (VLeigh) confronts the sweaty, triumphant, proletarian vulgarity of the modern south (MBrando)" (LAT); dEKazan KHunter KMalden
51 RIVER bRGodden fJRenoir
51 PLACE IN THE SUN "MClift delivers arguably his finest performance as a tormented young man in love with socialite ETaylor, but still weighed down by his past fling with factory girl sWinters" (AMCIN); bTDreiser(An American Tragedy) dGStevens
51 DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - MRennie
50 SUNSET BOULEVARD - "A failing screenwriter WHolden hooks up with a fading silent movie goddess GSwanson she keeps him in her mansion with her butler-director EvonStroheim and a glorious, decayed past; dwBWilder" (LAT)
50 SHANE - "classic western, archetypal tale of rootless lone gunman Shane ALadd who finds brief respite on Starrett family (VHeflin BB Dewilde JArthur) farm -only to be sucked into range war led by malevolent hired killer JPalance" (amcin); bJSchaefer dGStevens ECookJr
50 CYRANO bERostand dMGordon JFerrar
50 ASPHALT JUNGLE (THE) - "paradigm for heist thrillers that followed it; dJHuston's saga (bWRBurnett) of robbery gone awry, dooming most of its participants; SHayden SJaffe JHagen LCalherm JWhitmore MMonroe" (LAT)
49 WHITE HEAT mMSteiner dRaoulWalsh JCagney
49 THIRD MAN mAKaras(3rd man' theme) bGGreene dCReed OWelles JCotten AValli THoward
48 PEARL (THE) - adaptation of JSteinbeck novella: a semi-"wish fulfillment" parable about the tragedies wreaked on the poor by a sudden windfall (a huge pearl). dFernandez collaborated on the script with Steinbeck. Also with Armendariz and photographed by the nonpareil Figueroa. (LAT)
48 BICYCLE THIEF, THE **** classic, Italian, post-WWII neo-realism chronicles father's failure to find bicycle critical to family survival and stolen from him; wdVdeSica LMaggiorani EStaiola; It

47 RED SHOES HC Andersen BEasdale MPowell MShearer AWalbrook LMassine RHelpmann
47 MONSIEUR VERDOUX CChaplin x4 (OWelles) MarthaRaye WilliamFrawley human/war crimes allegory on French, real-life marry-for-money killer Landru.
47 JOUR DE FETE Jacques Tati
46 POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE "aimless drifter JGarfield is drawn int a net of murder when he falls for platinum bombshell LTurner at husband CKellaway's roadside diner" (AMCIN); bJCain sNBusch dTGarnett
46 KILLERS (THE) - It starts with the end -a death- and backtracks through interweaving stories to reveal the lies and betrayals that led to the opening scene. The script by Anthony Veiller (with uncredited help from John Huston) takes its first 10 minutes from Hemingway's short story and then spirals into a noir netherworld depicted by director RSiodmak; Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Jeff Corey, ADekker SLevene WConrad JWhitmore (LAT)
46 JOLSON STORY mJLewis dAGreen LParks (voice NBrooks) WDemarest EKeyes
45 PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY - "Oscar Wilde's cautionary tale of the portrait that ages while its subject sins and debauches with impunity, realized with sophistication and irony"; dALewin HHatfield GSanders ALansbury DReed PLawford (LAT)
45 HANGOVER SQUARE - LCregar is mild-mannered but supersensitive composer turns raving killer when sonically attacked; pseudo-Wellesian angles, Germanic shadows, tracking shots, British accents; mBHerrmann dJBrahm LDarnell GSanders (LAT)
45 CHILDREN OF PARADISE (LES ENFANTS du PARADIS) - "An ambitious Balzacian period epic, done under the noses of the occupying Nazis without proper resources, is one of the cinema's miracles. Jacques Prevert's great screenplay is full of wan romanticism, biting poetry, spicy comedy. He and director Marcel Carne set a fatal temptress (Arletty) among four men: a melancholy genius of a mime (Jeann-Louis Barrault), a clownish tragedian (Pierre Brasseur), a cold count (Louis Salou) and a Villon-style psychopath (Marcel Herrand). The result is rich, sublime, unforgettable. (The phrase "Children of Paradise" refers to the poor people who sit in the cheap theater seats, high above, rowdily applauding the spectacles below.)" (LAT)
45 BRIEF ENCOUNTER "seemingly happily-married woman CJohnson gets a piece of grit in her eye at the train station; married doctor THoward helps remove it -heart-breaking portrait of lost love and longing ever put on film" (amcin); sNCoward dDLean
44 DOUBLE INDEMNITY - "adultery, insurance and murder; EGRobinson is bloodhound of an insurance investigator, and FMcMurray and BStanwyck his lovers caught in a web of their own amorality and deception" (LAT); bJCaine dBWilder sRChandler
44 ARSENIC AND OLD LACE - "Frank Capra called this adaptation of the Broadway hit comedy a "mugger's paradise" and that it was. The entire cast seems to have become temporarily unhinged. It's Joseph Kesselring's "black comedy" about two dear old maiden aunts who poison lonely bachelors with their elderberry wine and the even more heinous murders who mix in with them. The frantic actors include Cary Grant (his most energetic performance), Josephine Hull and Jean Adair (of the stage play), Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson and Edward Everett Horton." (LAT)
41 MALTESE FALCON wDHammett dJHuston HBogart MAstor GLollobrigida ECookJ PLorre SGreenstreet
41 HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY dJFord recaps bRLlewellyn's growing up in Welsh mining town misery, soot eventually covering everything; WPidgeon MO'Hara DCrisp SAllgood RMcDowall
41 CHILDREN OF PARADISE sJPrevert dMCarne JLBarrault Arletty PBrasseur LSalou MHerrand(Le Criminale Elegant [Lacenaire])
40 GRAPES OF WRATH dust storms swallow up the land; voracious banks, the money; generation of Okies is forced to survive with dream of bounteous California (LAT); bJSteinbeck dJFord HFonda JCarradine CGrapewin JDarwell WBond
40 THIEF OF BAGHDAD AKorda Sabu CVeidt
39 RULES OF THE GAME JRenoir
39 ROARING TWENTIES unemployed WWI army dischargees JCagney and HBogart go criminal; double-cross each other; Cagney kills Bogart and, shot by police, dies on church steps -also loses Pricilla Lane; Paul Kelly and many others
38?STELLA DALLAS BStanwyck LDay
37 MAYTIME mRStothard/SRomberg dRZLeonard JMacDonald NEddy JBarrymore
37 GRAND ILLUSION sCSpaak/JRenoir dJRenoir; internment of French officers (JGabin PFresnay MDalio) under EvonStroheim's German-officer quarters as WWI sounding board for commentary on futility of war
37 FIREFLY - dRZLeonard JMcDonald AJones
37 DAMSEL IN DISTRESS - "It's a pity this wasn't part of the Astaire-Rogers series, because it would have been one of the best. Another aristocratic fantasy, with Fred among the swells, GBurns GAllen as his sidekicks, and a great Gershwin score..." LAT; dGStevens RNoble RGardner
36 SWING TIME - "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at their peak. It's full of Depression touches, and Astaire is an impoverished hoofer and gambler. But the Jerome Kern score is full of lovely standards, the dances are sublime and the direction (by George Stevens) the best they ever had. Astaire tribute to "Bojangles of Harlem" and their spine-tingling duet to "Never Gonna Dance" are among the high points of cinematic dance." (LAT)
35 BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN dJWhale BKarloff LLancaster
33 DUCK SOUP Marx Bros
32 VAMPYR - "Austere, melancholy, charged with a mystical strangeness; haunting, spectral grays; less bloody and far more horrifying; dCDreyer pRudolph Mate JWest (movie pseudonym of the film's backer, Baron Nicholas de Gunsberg) old lady vampire HGerard" (LAT)
32 Freaks - "the physically deformed performers of a circus, the pinheads, midgets, crippled and 'twinned' contrasted with the moral deformities of a beautiful, heartless woman (OBaclanova) and her circus strong man lover HVictor; dTBrowning HEarle WFord" (LAT)
31 FRANKENSTEIN bMShelley dJWhale BKarloff CClive
29 SPITE MARRIAGE pKeaton
26 METROPOLIS - see '84 remake with music by GMoroder AAnt PBenatar; '26 dFLang BrigitteHelm RudolphKlien-Rogge
26 METROPOLIS - 2002 digitally restored re-release with original GHuppertz score; EXCELLENT! -SEE IT!
26 GENERAL (THE ) - Many critics regard this as Buster Keaton's finest film, in which he plays a Confederate soldier with two lover: his locomotive engine, named "The General," and his reluctant sweetheart (Marion Mack). Based on an actual incident, the film puts Keaton in the middle of a Union plot to swipe a rebel train and take it up north, destroying the railroad and communications lines in the process. The predicament allows Keaton to proceed fluidly and comically from one potentially disastrous event to the next; hardly a moment goes by without a surprise. (LAT)
25 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA - "classic romantic thriller from GLerouz's novel, with Lon Chaney as a deformed lunatic composer prowling the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera in search of love and vindication" (LAT); dRupertJulian
24 THIEF OF BAGHDAD dRaoulWalsh DouglasFairbanksSr
24 LAST LAUGH, THE - "EmilJannings play a doorman at a posh hotel who is humiliated with a sudden demotion. Shot by cameraman Karl Fruend, it's a story told completely with pictures; there are no title cards" (LAT)
23 SAFETY LAST dFNewmeyer/STaylor HLloyd MDavis BStrother
23 HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (THE)) - One of LChaney Sr.'s prototypical roles: lovelorn, great-hearted but deformed Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral. VHugo's romantic classic spectacularly designed; dWWorsley (LAT)
22 NOSFERATU - "The most poetic of the many screen adaptations of "Dracula" F.W. Murnau's luminously macabre vision, full of misty blacks and whites, the living and the dead, the dark side of love. Max Schreck makes an unforgettable vampire a tall, skeletal goblin with a face that reeks of dread." (LAT)

1900 BBertolucci JLTrintignant? RDeniro GDepardieu DSanda SHaydn
A LOVE IN GERMANY dAWajda HSchygulla AMueller-Stahl JOlbryczki
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA Marx Bros
A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY dBTavernier
A WOMAN'S TALE dPCox GDobrowolska SFlorence Nkaye CHaywood
AFRICAN QUEEN KHepburn HBogart
AIRPLANE (I) ZAZ RHays JHagerty
ALEXANDER NEVSKY dSEisenstein mSProkofiev
ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN dTHackford RGere DWinger
AND JUSTICE FOR ALL APacino JWarden
ASHES AND DIAMONDS Pol ZCybulski EKrzyzanowska
BASILEUS QUARTET PMalet HAltero
BEGUILED CEastwood EHartman
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES II CHeston RMcDowell
BETRAYAL BKingsley JIrons Merchant pHPinter?
BEVERLY HILLS COP MBrest EMurphy JReinhold SBerkoff
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS sBEbert RMeyers?
BIG FAUSS AND LITTLE HALSEY RRedford LHutton MJPollard
BILLY JACK
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE
BLUE COLLAR RPryor HKeitel YKotto
BOAT IS FULL, THE dMakusImhoff RenateSteiger TinaEngel CurtBois MichaelGempert Switzerland anti-semitically closes the 1942 door on WWII2 Jews.
BREAD AND CHOCOLATE NManfredi
BREATHLESS RGere VKaprisky (see JPBelmondo)
BRUBAKER RRafelson RRedford
BUDDY HOLLY STORY GBusey
BULLETPROOF HEART wdMMalone sGMelbourne cTSchliesser mGColeman ALaPaglia MRogers MCraven PBoyle 95
Busby Berkeley
BUTLEY American Film Theater ABates
CABINET OF DR CALIGARI CMayer RWiene WKrauss CVeidt LDagover 19xx
CARMEN wPMerimee dCSaura AGades LDelSol
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE JFeiffer MNichols JNicholson AGarfunkel Ann-Margret
CHANT OF JIMMY BLACKSMITH TKeneally 'Shindler's List' FSchepisi IHolm
CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI bCarloLevi FRosi MVolonte IPappas Ital
COMBINATION PLATTER
COOLEY HIGH Wexler GTurman LHilton-Jacobs
COTTON CLUB FCoppola MHines JDellasandro RHoskins TWaites RGere DLane
CROCODILE STREET QuayBros ?JanSvankmajer
DARK CRYSTAL pdDHenson
DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAIDS SMartin FAstaire et al
DEATH WISH CBronson
DINER dBLevinson BLevinson EBarkin SGuttenberg DStern
DIRTY DOZEN SPeckinpaw LMarvin TSavalas EBorgnine
DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES, dTDavies 89 PPostlethwaite?
DOCTOR JEKYLL AND MISTER HYDE RMamoulian FMarch MHopkins
DOCUMENTARY -Herzog El Salvador, New Orleans
DRESSER, THE TCourtney AFinney
DRESSMAKER, THE BBainbridge JMcGrath JO'Brien JPlowright BWhitelaw 88 PPostlethwaite?

ELVIRA MADIGAN Mozart BWiderberg
END AS A MAN s/wCWillingham
EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK MSheen
FIVE THOUSAND FINGERS OF DR T(ERWILLIGER) HConried
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE SLeone EMoriconi CEastwood KKinski Van Fleet?
FORT APACHE, THE BRONX
FOX, THE SDennis KDullea
FRANCES JLang
FREAKS dTBrowning
FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN APinter MStreep JIrons ?
GAILY, GAILY BHecht BBridges
GANDHI RShankar RAttenborough BKingsley JFox
GOOD RIDDANCE - LES BONS DEBARRAS Film Board of Canada MTipo
GOOD, BAD AND UGLY, THE SLeone EMoriconi CEastwood KKinski - Van Fleet
GROOVE TUBE KShapiro
HATE (La Haine) dMKassowitz VCassel HKounde STaghmaoui 96 (why is this here?)
HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER CMcCullers AArkin SLocke (CEastwood)
HEARTBREAK KID CGrodin CShepard EAlbert
HEARTLAND RTorn
HEAVEN CAN WAIT WFraker WBeatty
HENRY - PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER dJMcNaughton MRooker TTowles 86 dTArnold?
HENRY V dLOlivier
HERCULES AND THE VAMPIRE SReeves
HIRELING, THE SYork RShaw
HIT, THE SFrears JHurt LDelSol TStamp
HOMECOMING HPinter American Film Theater
HOTEL ADLON
HOWARD'S END AHopkins VRedgrave EThompson
HUD MDouglas PNewman? PNeal
ICE MAN THutton LCrouse
IMPORTANT MAN, THE Toshiro Mifune Mexico
IS THERE SEX AFTER DEATH CReiner RCarson
JEKYLL AND HYDE TOGETHER AGAIN
JEW SUSS (Nazi film)
JOE PBoyle
JOHNNY 100 PESOS dGustavo Marino Armando Araiza 95 Terry Zwigoff:
JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN DTrumbo TBottoms
KASPAR HAUSER, THE ENIGMA OF WHerzog Bruno S
KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE
KING KONG JCabot FWray JArmstrong
KING OF MARVIN GARDENS RRafelson LMarvin
KNOCK ON ANY DOOR WMotley HBogart RDerek
KOTCH WMathau
LACE MAKER CGoretta IHuppert
LADY AND THE TRAMP WDisney
LAST RUN GCScott Trish van de Vere
LAST TANGO IN PARIS BBertolucci MBrando MSchneider
LEGEND OF FONG SAI-YUK
LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE RMcDowell IMcKellan
LEGEND OF MUSASHI (3 parts) HInagaki
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES sJCocteau dMelville
LET JOY REIGN SUPREME BTavernier PNoiret
LIFEGUARD SElliot AArcher
LONELY PASSION OF JUDITH HEARNE bBMoore? sMSparks? WHoskins MSmith
LOOKING FOR MISTER GOODBAR DKeaton
LOS DISPARECIDOS Argentina
LOVE AND DEATH WAllen DKeaton
LOVE AT FIRST BITE JDragoti GHamilton
M BGrundgens (Mephisto) PLorre GWidman
MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN JCocker
MAN FROM RIO JP Belmondo
MAN OF FLOWERS PCox WHerzog
MAN OF IRON/MARBLE AWajda
MAN WITH TWO BRAINS SMartin ?
MARATHON MAN JSchlesinger DHoffman LOlivier
MARJOE MGortner
MEDEA PPasolini MCallas
MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR JChristy
MICKEY ONE WBeatty
MIRACLE IN ROME GMarquez LDuque
MISFITS, THE le MMonroe MCliff
MISSION, THE
MIXUP F Romand 86 (canadian?)
MON ONCLE JTati
MONDO CANE (I, II and WEIRDO)
MONTENEGRO SAnspach
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE WShawn
MY LITTLE CHICKADEE WC Fields
NAKED PREY CWilde
NAPOLEON Gant (RAltman resurrects)
NIXON impersonation SECRET HONOR?steward- and arbitership
ON APPROVAL English
ON THE NICKEL RWaite TWaits?
ONION FIELDS Wambaugh JWood
ORDET CDreyer
OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT wSSheldon
PADRE, PADRONE Italian
PANIC IN THE STREETS JPalance ZMostel
PATTON Tangerine Dream GC Scott
PHANTASM
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA PWillians CRains
PINNOCHIO WDisney
PIRATES OF PENZANCE G&S KKlein LRonstadt
PIXOTE VBabenco
PLENTY DHare MStreep Sting IMcKellen (Foreign Off)
POTEMKIN SEisenstein
POUVOIR INTIME MTifo PCursi
PROFESSOR HANNIBAL italian
PUMPING IRON ASchwarzenegger
PUMPING IRON II The Women
QUEEN Drag Queen *doc
RACHEL, RACHEL JWoodward
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK HFord
RAMBO, FIRST BLOOD bDMorrell SStallone RCrenna SBerkoff
RED BALLOON Fr short
RED TENT SConnery?
REEFER MADNESS
REFLECTING SKIN
REMBETIKO Greek 'smugglers and their music'
RESERVOIR DOGS wdQTarantino Buscemi TRoth HKeitel MMadsen LTierney
RHINOCEROUS EIonescu ZMostel GWilder
RICHARD PRYOR LIVE
RITZ TWilliams RMoreno
ROBIN HOOD SConnery AHepburn
ROCKY I AND II RRobins SStallone
RUSTLER'S RHAPSODY PWayne
SANDS OF THE KALAHARI SYork SWhitman
SAY AMEN SOMEBODY
SCENT OF A WOMAN VGassman
SECRET CEREMONY RMitchum ETaylor
SECRETS OF NIMH DBluth (ex WDisney)
SEVENTEEN *STREETWISE
SILENCES OF THE PALACE
SKY ABOVE, THE MUD BELOW Rockfeller
SMOKING FISH Venezuela (Melnitz 95 date unk)
SODOM AND GOMORRAH
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE DMerrick ALansbury MYork
SOPHIE'S CHOICE WStyron MStreep KKlein
STAR-STRUCK Gillian Australian
STAR-TREK II
STEVIE GJackson
STOLEN KISSES Truffaut BED AND BOARD 400 Blows
STROSZEK WHerzog EMatis Bruno S
SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY JSchlesinger PFinch GJackson -
SUPERCOP JChan MichelleKhan
SWASHBUCKLER GBujold RShaw PBoyle
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS BLancaster TCurtis
THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT dJackHaleyJr
THERE IS NO BEER IN HEAVEN LBlank
THUNDER CRACK
TOOTSIE SPollock DHoffman CDurning
TRILBY bDuMaurier H(K)Neff TROG JCrawford
TWO WOMEN SLoren
UNION CITY DHarry
VAMPIRE LOVERS
VAMPYR Danish CDreyer
Van Dyke drunk ?
WAIT UNTIL DARK AHepburn AArkin RCrenna
WANDERERS
WAR OF THE WORLDS HG Wells --
WATERFRONT MBrando LJ Cobb EM Saint
WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU JRAckerley
WHEN A STRANGER CALLS CKane
WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM WMurray
WIFE-MISTRESS MMastroianni
WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY Quaker Oats GWilder
WINTER OF OUR DREAMS JDavis
WIZARD OF OZ bFBaum mHArlen JGarland RBolger FMorgan BLahr
WOODSTOCK
WORLD OF TOMORROW 1938 Worlds Fair
YES, MOTHER DEAR FDunaway as JCrawford
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT PYarrow
ZARDOZ (wpd by) JBoorman SConnery CRampling
ZATOICHI (Blind Swordsman et al)
ZORBA NKazantsakis AQuinn