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Category Archives: Suspense

Felicia’s Journey

1999
D: Atom Egoyan
W: William Trevor (novel); Atom Egoyan (screenplay)
C: Bob Hoskins, Arsinée Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy, Sheila Reid, Nizwar Karanj, Ali Yassine, Peter McDonald, Kriss Dosanjh, Gerard McSorley, Marie Stafford, Gavin Kelty, Brid Brennan, Mark Hadfield, Danny Turner, Susan Parry, Claire Benedict
Original Music: Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Paul Sarossy
Editing: Susan Shipton
Runtime: 116 min
Country: Canada / UK
Language: English / [...]

Posted 24 September 2007 † filmbuff § ‡ Comments (0) °

No Way Out

1987
D: Roger Donaldson
C: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff, George Dzundza, Jason Bernard, Iman, Fred Dalton Thompson, Leon Russom, Dennis Burkley, Marshall Bell, Chris D., Michael Shillo, Nicholas Worth, Leo Geter, Matthew Barry, John D’Aquino, Peter Bell, Tony Webster, Matthew Evans, Gregory Le Noel, Gregory Avellone, Jeremy Glenn, David Paymer
W: Kenneth [...]

Posted 18 July 2007 † filmbuff § ‡ Comments (0) °

The China Lake Murders

1990
D: Alan Metzger
C: Isaac Allan, Tom Skerritt, Michael Parks, Nancy Everhard, Lauren Tewes, Bill McKinney, Lonny Chapman, J.C. Quinn, David L. Crowley, Doug Mears, Tom Dahlgren, Jack Kehler, Lara Parker, Danny Hassel, Dennis Rucker
W: N.D. Schreiner (teleplay)
Original Music: Dana Kaproff
Cinematography: Geoffrey Schaaf
Editing: Sidney Wolinsky
Runtime: 97 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: PG-13

A [...]

Posted 28 May 2007 † filmbuff § TV Film ‡ Comments (0) °

Shattered Glass

2003
D: Billy Ray
C: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Melanie Lynskey, Hank Azaria, Steve Zahn, Mark Blum, Simone-Elise Girard, Chad Donella, Jamie Elman, Luke Kirby, Cas Anvar, Linda Smith, Ted Kotcheff, Owen Rotharmel
W: H.G. (Buzz) Bissinger (article); Billy Ray (screenplay)
Original Music: Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Mandy Walker
Editing: Jeffrey Ford
Runtime: 94 min.
Country: USA / Canada
Language: English
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: [...]

Posted 26 May 2007 † filmbuff § Drama ‡ Comments (0) °

The Long Goodbye

1973
D: Robert Altman
C: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, Jim Bouton, Warren Berlinger, Jo Ann Brody, Stephen Coit, Jack Knight, Pepe Callahan, Vincent Palmieri, Pancho Córdova, Enrique Lucero, Rutanya Alda, Tammy Shaw, Jack Riley, Ken Sansom, Jerry Jones, John S. Davies, Rodney Moss, Leslie Simms, Leslie McRae, Sybil [...]

Posted 24 May 2007 † filmbuff § Comedy § Drama ‡ Comments (0) °

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

1956
D: Don Siegel
C: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke, Virginia Christine, Tom Fadden, Kenneth Patterson, Guy Way, Eileen Stevens, Beatrice Maude, Jean Andren, Bobby Clark, Everett Glass, Dabbs Greer
W: Jack Finney (Collier’s magazine serial); Daniel Mainwaring (screenplay)
Original Music: Carmen Dragon
Cinematography: Ellsworth Fredericks
Editor: Robert S. Eisen
Runtime: 80 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: [...]

Posted 17 May 2007 † filmbuff § Horror § Sci-Fi ‡ Comments (0) °

Le Boucher

1970
D: Claude Chabrol
C: Claude Chabrol
W: Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara, William Guérault, Roger Rudel
Original Music: Pierre Jansen
Cinematography: Jean Rabier
Editor: Jacques Gaillard
Runtime: 93 min
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: GP

A lonely headmistress in a small town believes the local butcher, whom she recently hit [...]

Posted 02 May 2007 † filmbuff § Non-English ‡ Comments (0) °

Band of Outsiders

1964
D: Jean Luc Godard
C: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Sami Frey, Louisa Colpeyn, Georges Staquet, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Makovski, Michel Delahaye, Ernest Menzer, Danièle Girard
W: Jean-Luc Godard; Dolores Hitchens (novel)
Original Music: Michel Legrand
Cinematography: Raoul Coutard
Editor: Francoise Collin
Runtime: 95 min
Country: France
Language: French / English
Color: Black and White / Color
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: Not Rated

This homage to American gangster [...]

Posted 26 April 2007 † filmbuff § Non-English ‡ Comments (0) °

House of Games

1987
D: David Mamet
C: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, J.T. Walsh, Willo Hausman, Karen Kohlhaas, Steven Goldstein, Jack Wallace, Ricky Jay, G. Roy Levin, Bob Lumbra, Andy Potok, Allen Soule, Ben Blakeman, Scott Zigler, William H. Macy, John Pritchett, Meshach Taylor
W: Jonathan Katz & David Mamet (story); David Mamet (screenplay)
Original Music: Alaric Jans
Cinematography: [...]

Posted 15 April 2007 † filmbuff § ‡ Comments (0) °

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975
D: Peter Weir
C: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse, Kirsty Child, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, Jacki Weaver, Frank Gunnell, Anne-Louise Lambert, Karen Robson, Jane Vallis, Christine Schuler, Margaret Nelson, Ingrid Mason, Jenny Lovell, Janet Murray
W: Joan Lindsay (novel); Cliff Green (screenplay)
Cinematography: Russell Boyd
Editing: Max Lemon
Runtime: 115 min / Australia: 107 min (1998 director’s cut)
Country: Australia
Language: English / [...]

Posted 09 April 2007 † filmbuff § Horror ‡ Comments (0) °

One Deadly Summer

1983
D: Jean Becker
C: Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève, Maria Machado, Evelyne Didi, Jean Gaven, François Cluzet, Manuel Gélin, Roger Carel, Michel Galabru, Marie-Pierre Casey, Cécile Vassort
W: Jean Becker & Sébastien Japrisot (also novel)
Original Music: Georges Delerue
Cinematography: Étienne Becker
Editing: Jacques Witta
Runtime: 130 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66 : 1
Sound Mix: Stereo
Certification: [...]

Posted 06 April 2007 † filmbuff § Drama § Non-English ‡ Comments (0) °

The Night of the Hunter

1955
D: Charles Laughton
C: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves, Don Beddoe, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, Gloria Castillo
W: Davis Grubb (novel); James Agee (screenplay)
Original Music: Walter Schumann
Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
Editing: Robert Golden
Runtime: 93 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification: Approved

Ben Harper [...]

Posted 03 April 2007 † filmbuff § Horror ‡ Comments (0) °

Swimming Pool

2003
D: François Ozon
C: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Jean-Marie Lamour, Marc Fayolle, Mireille Mossé, Michel Fau, Jean-Claude Lecas, Emilie Gavois-Kahn, Erarde Forestali, Lauren Farrow, Sebastian Harcombe, Frances Cuka, Keith Yeates, Tricia Aileen, Glen Davies
W: François Ozon (screenplay)
Original Music: Philippe Rombi
Cinematography: Yorick Le Saux
Editing: Monica Coleman
Runtime: 102 min
Country: France / UK
Language: English / French
Color: Color
Aspect [...]

Posted 30 March 2007 † filmbuff § Non-English ‡ Comments (0) °

Dead of Winter

1987
D: Arthur Penn
C: Mary Steenburgen, Roddy McDowall, Jan Rubes, William Russ, Ken Pogue, Wayne Robson, Mark Malone, Michael Copeman, Sam Malkin, Pamela Moller, Dwayne McLean, Paul Welsh
W: Marc Shmuger & Mark Malone
Original Music: Richard Einhorn
Cinematography: Jan Weincke
Editing: Rick Shaine
Runtime: 100 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Sound Mix: Dolby
Certification: R

Katie McGovern is a [...]

Posted 20 March 2007 † filmbuff § ‡ Comments (0) °

Blood Simple

1984
D: Joel Coen
C: John Getz, Frances Mcdormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams, Deborah Neumann, Raquel Gavia, Van Brooks, Señor Marco, Holly Hunter (voice, uncredited), Barry Sonnenfeld (Marty’s vomiting, uncredited)
W: Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Original Music: Carter Burwell
Cinematography: Barry Sonnenfeld
Runtime: 99 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital (re-release) / [...]

Posted 08 March 2007 † filmbuff § Horror ‡ Comments (0) °

Donnie Brasco

1997
D: Mike Newell
C: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek, Gerry Becker, Robert Miano, Brian Tarantina
W: Joseph D. Pistone & Richard Woodley (book Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia); Paul Attanasio (screenplay)
Original Music: Patrick Doyle
Cinematography: Peter Sova
Editing: Jon Gregory
Runtime: 127 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: [...]

Posted 02 January 2007 † filmbuff § Drama ‡ Comments (0) °

Inland Empire

2006
D: David Lynch
C: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter J. Lucas, Karolina Gruszka, Jan Hencz, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Diane Ladd, Julia Ormond, Ian Abercrombie
W: David Lynch
Editing: David Lynch
Runtime: 172 min
Country: USA / Poland / France
Language: Polish / English
Color: Black and White / Color
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital
Certification: R

Inland Empire [...]

Posted 31 December 2006 † filmbuff § Drama § Horror ‡ Comments (0) °

High & Low

1963
D: Akira Kurosawa
C: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Isao Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Katô, Takashi Shimura, Jun Tazaki, Nobuo Nakamura, Yûnosuke Itô, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Minoru Chiaki, Hiroshi Unayama
Writing: Eijirô Hisaita
Original Music: Masaru Satô
Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai & Takao Saitô
Runtime: 142 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Color: Black and White / Color (Eastmancolor) (inserts only)
Sound Mix: Mono [...]

Posted 25 June 2006 † filmbuff § Non-English ‡ Comments (0) °

Mulholland Dr.

2001
D: David Lynch
C: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe, Robert Forster, Katharine Towne, Mark Pellegrino, Lee Grant, Scott Coffey, Billy Ray Cyrus, Chad Everett, Rita Taggart, James Karen, Monty Montgomery, Lori Heuring, Angelo Badalamenti, Michael Des Barres, Marcus Graham, Missy Crider
Writing: David Lynch
Original Music: Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography: Peter Deming
Runtime: 147 [...]

Posted 12 June 2006 † filmbuff § Comedy § Horror ‡ Comments (0) °

Taking Lives

2004
D: D.J. Caruso
C: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands, Olivier Martinez, Tchéky Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Paul Dano, Justin Chatwin, André Lacoste, Billy Two Rivers, Richard Lemire, Julien Poulin, Martin Brisebois, Brett Watson
Writing: Michael Pye (novel); Jon Bokenkamp (screen story)
Original Music: Philip Glass; Walter Werzowa (main titles)
Cinematography: Amir M. Mokri
Runtime: 103 min / USA:109 [...]

Posted 05 June 2006 † filmbuff § ‡ Comments (0) °

Elevator to the Gallows

1958
D: Louis Malle
C: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall, Elga Andersen, Sylviane Aisenstein, Micheline Bona, Gisèle Grandpré, Jacqueline Staup, Marcel Cuvelier, Gérard Darrieu, Charles Denner, Hubert Deschamps
Writing: Noël Calef (novel); Louis Malle & Roger Nimier
Original Music: Miles Davis
Cinematography: Henri Decaë
Runtime: 88 min
Country: France
Language: French
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric [...]

Posted 29 May 2006 † filmbuff § Non-English ‡ Comments (0) °

Summer Girl

1983
D: Robert Michael Lewis
C: Barry Bostwick, Kim Darby, Martha Scott, Murray Hamilton, Millie Slavin, Diane Franklin, Hunt Block, David Faustino, Laura Jacoby, Linda Ryan, Benjamin C. Jaus, David Kraul, Jim Lansbury, Randy Spangler, Lee Gaber
Writing: AJ Carothers; Caroline Crane (novel)
Original Music: Angela Morley
Cinematography: Fred J. Koenekamp
Runtime: 96 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Mono
A [...]

Posted 14 May 2006 † filmbuff § TV Film ‡ Comments (0) °

Le Samouraï

1967
D: Jean-Pierre Melville
C: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy, Michel Boisrond, Robert Favart, Jean-Pierre Posier, Catherine Jourdan, Roger Fradet, Carlo Nell, Robert Rondo, André Salgues, André Thorent
Writing: Joan McLeod (novel The Ronin); Jean-Pierre Melville & Georges Pellegrin (screenplay)
Original Music: François de Roubaix
Cinematography: Henri Decaë
Runtime: 101 min
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Color: Color [...]

Posted 24 April 2006 † filmbuff § Non-English ‡ Comments (0) °

After Hours

1985
D: Martin Scorsese
C: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Cheech Marin, Catherine O’Hara, Dick Miller, Will Patton, Robert Plunket, Bronson Pinchot
Writing: Joseph Minion
Original Music: Howard Shore
Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus
Runtime: 96 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color
Sound Mix: Mono
Certification: R
Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne), a pencil-pushing Manhattanite, hits it off with a [...]

Posted 23 April 2006 † filmbuff § Comedy ‡ Comments (0) °

The Astronaut’s Wife

1999
D: Rand Ravich
C: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea DuVall, Donna Murphy, Nick Cassavetes,Samantha Eggar, Gary Grubbs, Blair Brown, Tom Noonan, Tom O’Brien, Lucy Lin, Michael Crider
Writing: Rand Ravich
Original Music: George S. Clinton
Cinematography: Allen Daviau
Runtime: 109 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (DeLuxe)
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification: R
Two astronauts are doing a routine [...]

Posted 15 April 2006 † filmbuff § Horror § Sci-Fi ‡ Comments (0) °