Border Incident*Director: Anthony Mann
Writers: John C. Higgins & George Zuckerman
Starring: Ricardo Montalban & George Murphy
Rating: 4/5
December 29th
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*Director: Tim Burton
Writers: John Logan & Christopher Bond
Starring: Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter
Rating: 3/5
December 28th
Side Street*Director: Anthony Mann
Writer: Sydney Boehm
Starring: Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig, & Paul Kelly
Rating: 4/5
December 27th
Behind Locked Doors*Director: Budd Boetticher
Writers: Eugene Ling & Malvin Wald
Starring: Lucille Bremer & Richard Carlson
Rating: 3.5/5
Railroaded*Director: Anthony Mann
Writers: Gertrude Walker & John C. Higgins
Starring: John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, & Jane Randolph
Rating: 3.5/5
December 26th
Blade Runner* (Theatrical Cut)Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, & Roland Kibbee
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, & Sean Young
Rating: 3.5/5
December 25th
NotoriousDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Writers: Ben Hecht, Alfred Hitchcock, & Clifford Odets
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, & Claude Rains
Rating: 4.5/5
December 23rd
A Fistfull of Dynamite*Director: Sergio Leone
Writers: Sergio Leone, Sergio Donati, & Luciano Vincenzoni
Starring: Rod Steiger & James Coburn
Rating: 4/5
December 22nd
Barry Lyndon*Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Ryan O'Neal & Marisa Berenson
Oscars: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Ken Adam, Roy Walker, & Vernon Dixon), Best Cinematography (John Alcott), Best Costume Design (Ulla-Britt Söderlund & Milena Canonero), & Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation (Leonard Rosenman)
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4/5
December 21st
The Narrow Margin*Director: Richard Fleischer
Writers: Earl Felton, Martin Goldsmith, & Jack Leonard
Starring: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, & Jacqueline White
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4/5
December 20th
Lolita*Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Vladimir Nabokov & Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Sue Lyon, James Masonm, Shelley Winters, & Peter Sellers
Rating: 4/5
Deecmber 15th
Port of Shadows*Director: Marcel Carne
Writer: Jacques Prévert
Starring: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, & Michèle Morgan
Rating: 4.5/5
December 14th
Fanny & Alexander*Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bertil Guve & Jan Malmsjö
Oscars: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Anna Asp & Susanne Lingheim), Best Cinematography (Sven Nykvist), Best Costume Design (Marik Vos-Lundh), Best Foreign Language Film (Sweden).
Rating: 4.5/5
December 13th
Wild StrawberriesDirector: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Victor Sjöström & Bibi Andersson
Rating: 4/5
December 8th
Variety Lights*Directors: Federico Fellini & Alberto Lattuada
Writers: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Alberto Lattuada, &
Tullio Pinelli
Tullio Pinelli
Starring: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, & Giulietta Masina
Rating: 4/5
December 7th
The Illusionist*Director: Neil Burger
Writer: Neil Burger
Starring: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, & Jessica Biel
Rating: 2.5/5
Paths of Glory*Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, & Jim Thompson
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, & Adolphe Menjou
Rating: 4.5/5
December 1st
FargoDirectors: Joel & Ethan Coen
Writers: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: Frances McDormand, Peter Stormare, Steve Buscemi, & William H. Macy
Oscars: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Frances McDormand) & Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen)
Rating: 4.5/5
Sullivan's Travels*
Director: Preston Sturges
Writers: Preston Sturges
Starring: Veronica Lake & Joel McCrea
Rating: 4/5
Days of Heaven*
Director: Terrence Malick
Writer: Terrence Malick
Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, & Sam Shepard, & Linda Manz
Oscar: Best Cinematography (Néstor Almendros)
Rating: 4/5
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November 30th
Killer's Kiss*Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick & Howard Sackler
Starring: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, & Irene Kane
Rating: 4/5
November 28th
Maria Full of Grace*Director: Joshua Marston
Writers: Joshua Marston
Starring: Catalina Sandino Moreno
Rating: 2.5/5
November 24th
Last Temptation of Christ*Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Paul Schrader
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, & Barbara Hershey
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, & Barbara Hershey
Rating: 4/5
November 23rd
No Country for Old Men*Directors: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Writers: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, & Josh Brolin
Rating: 4/5
November 22nd
The Shop on Main Street*Directors: Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos
Writers: Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos
Starring: Ida Kaminska & Jozef Króner
Oscar: Best Foreign Language Film (Czechoslovakia)
Rating: 4.5/5
Fiend without Face*Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writer: Herbert J. Leder
Starring: Marshall Thompson
Rating: 2.5/5
November 21st
Straw Dogs*Director: Sam Peckinpah
Writers: David Zelag Goodman & Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Dustin Hoffman & Susan George
Starring: Dustin Hoffman & Susan George
Rating: 4/5
November 18th
NetworkDirector: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Starring: Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, & Robert Duvall
Oscars: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Peter Finch), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Faye Dunaway), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Beatrice Straight), & Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (Paddy Chayefsky)
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4/5
November 16th
Eyes Wide Shut*Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick & Frederic Raphael
Starring: Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman
Starring: Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman
Rating: 4/5
November 15th
Faust*Director: F.W. Murnau
Writers: Gerhart Hauptmann, Hans Kyser, & Christopher Marlowe
Starring: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, & Camilla Horn
Rating: 3/5
November 12th
ChinatownDirector: Roman Polanski
Writers: Robert Towne & Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, & John Huston
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, & John Huston
Oscar: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (Robert Towne)
Rating: 4.5/5
November 11th
Full Metal Jacket*Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, & Gustav Hasford
Starring: Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio, & R. Lee Ermey
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4/5
Director: Max Nosseck
Writers: William Castle & Philip Yordan
Starring: Lawrence Taylor
Rating: 3.5/5
November 10th
Rescue Dawn*Director: Werner Herzog
Writers: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale & Steve Zahn
Rating: 4/5
November 5th
The Grand Illusion*Director: Jean Renoir
Writers: Jean Renoir & Charles Spaak
Starring: Jean Gabin, Eric von Stroheim, & Pierre Fresnay
Starring: Jean Gabin, Eric von Stroheim, & Pierre Fresnay
Rating: 4.5/5
November 4th
The Darjeeling Limited*Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, & Jason Schwartzman
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, & Adrein Brody
Rating: 4.5/5
The Racket*Director: John Cromwell
Writers: William Wister Haines & W.R. Burnett
Starring: Robert Mitchum & Robert Ryan
Rating: 3/5
November 3rd
Action in the North Atlantic*Director: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, & Raoul Walsh
Writers: A.I. Bezzerides, W.R. Burnett, Guy Gilpatric, & John Howard Lawson
Starring: Humphrey Bogart & Raymond Massey
Rating: 4/5
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