Almost Famous
Director: Cameron Crowe
Screenplay: Cameron Crowe
Producers: Ian Bryce, Cameron Crowe, Lisa Stewart
Music: John Bonham, Peter Frampton, Art Garfunkel, Elton John, John Paul Jones,
Mike McCready, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Todd Rundgren, Cat Stevens, Rod Stewart, Nancy Wilson
Photography: John Toll
Editing: John Hutshing, Saar Klein
Cast: Kate Hudson (Lady "Penny Lane" Goodman), Patrick Fugit (William Miller),
Billy Crudup (Russell Hammond), Frances McDormand (Elain Miller), Jason Lee (Jeff Bebe),
Zooey Deschanel (Anita Miller), Noah Taylor (Dick Roswell), Anna Paquin (Polexia Aphrodesia),
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Lester Bangs), Jimmy Fallon (Dennis Hope)
Released by: Dream Works SKG/Vinyl Films/Sony Pictures/Columbia TriStar
Date: 2000, 122 minutes. Color.
Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson (1), Mikael Salomon (3, 10), Richard Loncraine (4),
David Nutter (4 in Holland), Tom Hanks (5), David Lelenad (6), David Frankel (7, 9),
Tony To (8)
Screenplay: Stephen E. Ambrose (all), Tom Hanks (all), Bruce C. McKenna (1, 4, 6),
Erik Jendresen (1, 5, 10), John Orloff (2, 9), E. Max Frye (3), Graham Yost (4, 7),
Erik Bork (8, 10)
Producers: Erik Bork, Billy Fox, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Stephen E. Ambrose
Music: Michael Kamen
Photography: Remi Adefarasin
Editors: Billy Fox, Yan Miles, John Richards
Cast: Richard Speight Jr. (Warren "Skip" Muck), Mark Huberman (Les Hashey),
David Schwimmer (Captain Herbert Sobel), Damian Lewis (Captain Richard Winters),
Shane Taylor (Medic Eugene Roe), Scott Grimes (Donald Malarkey),
Marc Warren (Albert Blithe), Michael Cudlitz (Denver "Bull" Randleman),
Neal McDonough (Lynn D. "Buck" Compton),
William Tapley (Captain Paige, British Tank Commander), Michael Edmiston (Jumpmaster),
Frank John Hughes (William J. Guamere), Rene L. Moreno (Joseph Ramirez),
Kirk Acevedo (Joseph D. Toye), Eion Bailey (David Kenyon Webster),
Dale Dye (Colonel Robert F. Sink), Ron Livingston (Lewis Nixon),
Donnie Wahlberg (C. Carwood Lipton)
Released by: HBO/Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 2001, 600 minutes. Color.
Based on: Band of Brothers, by Stephen E. Ambrose.
Reviewed by: The New Yorker, September 17, 2001.
Web Site: Band of Brothers
Episodes:
.....Currahee (1), September 2, 2001.
.....Day of Days (2), September 9, 2001.
.....Carentan (3), September 16, 2001.
.....Replacements (4), September 23, 2001.
.....Crossroads (5), September 30, 2001.
.....Bastogne (6), October 7, 2001.
.....The Breaking Point (7), October 14, 2001.
.....The Patrol (8), October 21, 2001.
.....Why We Fight (9), October 28, 2001.
.....Points (10), November 4, 2001.
Black Hawk Down
Director: Ridley Scott
Screenplay: Ken Nolan
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer and Ridley Scott
Music: Hans Zimmer, Jeff Rona, Mel Wesson
Photography: Slavomir Idziak
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Cast: Josh Hartnett (Eversmann), Ewan McGregor (Grimes), Tom Sizemore (McKnight),
Eric Bana (Hoot), Sam Shepard (Garrison)
Released by: Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer/Revolution Studios/Sony
Date: 2001, 143 minutes. Color.
Based on: Black Hawk Down, by Mark Bowden.
Blue Crush
Director: John Stockwell
Story: Lizzy Weiss
Screenplay: Lizzy Weiss, John Stockwell
Producers: Brian Grazer and Karen Kehela
Music: Nikka Costa, Paul Haslinger, Chad Hugo, Beth Orton, Justin Stanley, Pharrell Williams
Photography: David Hennings
Editor: Emma E. Hickox
Cast: Kate Bosworth (Anne Marie Chadwick), Matthew Davis (Matt Tollman),
Michelle Rodriguez (Eden), Sanoe Lake (Lena), Mika Boorem (Penny Chadwick),
Chris Taloa (Drew), Kala Alexander (Kala), Ruben Tejada (JJ), Kaupena Miranda (Kaupena),
Asa Aquino (Asa), Tamayo Perry (Tamayo), Paul Hatter (Paul), Coco Ho (Young Anne Marie)
Released by: Imagine Entertainment/Shutt-Jones Productions/Universal Pictures/MCA
Date: 2002, 104 minutes. Color.
Based on: Surf Girls of Maui, by Susan Orlean.
Bubble Boy
Director: Blair Hayes
Screenplay: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, Michael Kalesniko
Producers: Beau Flynn and Eric McLeod
Music: John Ottman
Photography: Jerzy Zielinski
Editor: Pamela Martin
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal (Jimmy Livingston), Marley Shelton (Chloe),
Swoosie Kurtz (Mrs. Livingston), Danny Trejo (Chapa),
David Sheridan, John Carroll Lynch, Arden Myrin, Geoffrey Arend (Flipper Boy),
Joseph Patrick Cranshaw (Pippy/Pappy), Brian Gattas (Todd), Carina Dawn Lewis,
Midajah O'Hearn, Beetlejuice (Pinhead at Freak Show), Boti Bliss (Cashier)
Released by: Germ Free Productions/Buena Vista Pictures/Touchstone Pictures
Date: 2001, 100 minutes. Color.
The Four Feathers
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Screenplay: Michael Schiffer and Houssein Amini
Producers: Robert D. Jaffee, Stanley R. Jaffee, Marty Katz
Music: James Horner
Photography: Robert Richardson
Editing: Steven Rosenblum
Cast: Heath Ledger (Harry Faversham), Kate Hudson (Ethne Eustace), Wes Bentley (Lt. Jack Durrance),
Djimon Hounsou (Abou Fatma), Alex Jennings (Colonel Hamilton), Michael Sheen (Trench),
Rupert Penry-Jones (Willoughby)
Released by: Belhaven Limited/Jaffilms/Miramax/Paramount
Date: 2002, 125 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Four Feathers, by A. E. W. Mason (1902).
Reviewed by: The New Yorker, September 30, 2002.
The Four Musketeers (aka The Revenge of Milady)
Director: Richard Lester
Screenplay: George MacDonald Fraser
Producers: Alexander Salkind and Michael Salkind
Music: Lalo Schifrin
Photography: David Watkin
Cast: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamerlain, Frank Finlay,
Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, Geraldine Chaplin,
Charleton Heston, Christopher Lee, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simon Ward,
Roy Kinnear
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox/Film Trust/Este
Date: 1974, 103 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (1844).
Prequel: The Three Musketeers, 1973.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Director: Hugh Hudson
Screenplay: P. H. Vazak (Robert Towne), Michael Austin
Producers: Hugh Hudson and Stanley S. Canter
Music: John Scott
Photography: John Alcott
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox, Christopher Lambert,
Andie MacDowell, Cheryl Campbell, Paul Geoffrey, John Wells, Nigel Davenport,
ian Charleson, Richard Griffiths
Released by: Warner/WEA Records
Date: 1984, 130 minutes. Color.
Based on: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
A Knight's Tale
Director: Brian Helgeland
Screenplay: Brian Helgeland
Producers: Todd Black, Brian Helgeland, and Tim Van Rellim
Music: Carter Burwell
Photography: Richard Greatrex
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Cast: Heath Ledger (William Thatcher), Shannyn Sossamon (Jocelyn),
Rufus Sewell (Count Adhemar), Paul Bettany (Geoffrey Chaucer), Mark Addy (Roland),
Laura Fraser (Kate), Allan Tudyk (Wat), Scott Handy (Germaine), James Purefoy (Colville),
Bérénice Bejo (Christiana), Christopher Cazenove (John Thatcher)
Released by: Black and Blu Entertainment/Columbia/Escape Artists/Twentieth Century Fox/Sony
Date: 2001, 132 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Knight's Tale, by Geoffrey Chaucer.
K-19: The Widowmaker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Screenplay: Christopher Kyle
Story: Louis Nowra
Producers: Kathryn Bigelow, Edward S. Feldman, Sigurjon Sighvatsson, Chris Whitaker, Harrison Ford
Music: Klaus Badelt, Geoff Zanelli
Photography: Jeff Cronenweth
Editor: Walter Murch
Cast: Harrison Ford (Captain Alexi Vostrikov), Liam Neeson (Captain Mikhail Polenin)
Released by: First Light Production/IMF/National Geographic Society/New Regency/Palomar
Date: 2002, 138 minutes. Color.
The Mark of Zorro
Director: Fred Niblo
Screenplay:
Producer: Douglas Fairbanks
Music: William Perry
Photography: William McGann
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks (Don Diego), Marguerite de la Motte, Noah Beery
Released by:
Date: 1920, 90 minutes. B & W. Silent.
Based on: The Curse of Capistrano, by Johnston McCulley.
The Mark of Zorro
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Screenplay: John taintor Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth
Producer: Raymond Griffith
Music: Alfred Newman
Photography: Arthur Miller
Cast: Tyrone Power (Don Diego), Basil Rathbone, J. Edward Bromberg,
Linda Darnell, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher, Robert Lowery
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1940, 94 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Mask of Zorro,
The Mask of Zorro
Director: Martin Campbell
Screenplay: John Eskow, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio
Story by: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, and Randall Jahnson
Producers: Doug Claybourne and David Foster
Music: James Horner
Photography: Phil Meheux
Editor: Thom Noble
Cast: Antonio Banderas (Alejandro Murieta/Zorro), Anthony Hopkins (Don Diego/Zorro),
Catherine Zeta-Jones (Elena), Stuart Wilson (Don Rafael Montero), Maury Chaykin (Prison Warden),
Matt Letscher (Captain Harrison Love), Tony Amendola (Don Luiz), Pedro Armedarez (Don Pedro),
L. Q. Jones (Three-Fingered Jack), Jose Perez (Corporal Garcia Armando),
Julieta Rosen (Esperanza de la Vega), William Marquez (Fray Felipe), Victor Rivers (Joaquin Murieta)
Released by: Columbia/Tristar
Date: 1998, 138 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Curse of Capistrano, by Johnston McCulley.
The Musketeer
Director: Peter Hyams
Screenplay: Gene Quintano
Producers: Rudy Cohen and Moshe Diamant
Music: David Arnold
Photography: Peter Hyams
Stunts: Michel Struik, Radica Jovicic, Tan Qiao (D'Artagnan), Xin Xin Xiong (Febre)
Cast: Justin Chambers (D'Artagnan), Catherine Deneuve (Queen Anne d'Autriche),
Tim Roth (Febre), Mena Suvari (Francesca), Stephen Rea (Cardinal Richelieu), Steven Spiers (Porthos),
Jeremy Clyde (Lord Buckingham)
Released by: Behavior Worldwide/Cohen/MCA/Universal/Miramax
Date: 2001, 105 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (1844).
Patton Oscar
Director: Franklin Schaffner Oscar
Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North Oscar
Producer: Frank McCarthy
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Photography: Fred Koenekamp
Editor: Hugh S. Fowler Oscar
Sound: Douglas Williams, Don Bassman Oscar
Cast: George C. Scott (Patton) Oscar, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Stephen Young,
Michael Strong, Frank Latimore
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1970, 171 minutes. Color.
Pearl Harbor
Director: Michael Bay
Screenplay: Randall Wallace
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay
Music: Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Robert O. Ragland, Steve Jablonsky, James S. Levine,
Geoff Zanelli
Photography: John Schwartzman
Editing: Mark Goldblatt, Chris Lebenzon, Steven Rosenblum, Roger Barton
Cast: Ben Affleck (Captain Rafe McCawley), Kate Beckinsale (Lieutenant Evelyn Stewart),
Alec Baldwin (Colonel Jimmy Doolittle), Josh Hartnett (Captain Danny Walker),
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Doris "Dorie" Miller), William Lee Scott (Billy),
Jon Voight (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt), Catherine Kellner (Barbara),
Jennifer Garner (Sandra), Mako (Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto)
Released by: Buena Vista/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Touchstone Pictures
Date: 2001, 180 minutes. Color.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Director: Tim Burton
Screenplay: Phil Hartmann, Paul Reubens, Michael Varhol
Producer: Robert Shapiro
Music: Danny Elfman
Photography: Victor J. Kemper
Editor: Billy Weber
Cast: Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman), Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger,
Judd Omen, Jon Harris, Carmen Filpi, Tony Bill, James Brolin, Morgan Fairchild
Released by: Marine/Aspen Film Society
Date: 1985, 92 minutes. Color.
The Sign of Zorro
Directors: Lewis R. Foster and Norman Foster
Screenplay: Norman Foster, Ian Hay, John Meredyth Lucas, Bob Wehling,
Producers: William H. Anderson and Walt Disney
Music: Norman Foster and William Lava
Editing: Hugh Chaloupka, Stanley E. Johnson, Roy V. Livingston, Cotton Warburton
Visual Effects: Peter Ellenshaw
Cast: Guy Williams (Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro), Henry Calvin (Sargeant Garcia),
Gene Sheldon (Bernardo), George J. Lewis (Don Alejandro de la Vega)
Released by: Buena Vista/Walt Disney Productions
Date: 1958, 100 minutes. B & W.
Based on: The Curse of Capistrano, by Johnston McCulley.
Tarzan the Ape Man
Director: John Derek
Screenplay: Tom Rowe and Gary Goddard
Producer: Bo Derek
Music:
Photography: John Derek and Wolfgang Dickmann
Edtor: James B. Ling
Cast: Bo Derek (Jane), Miles O'Keefe (Tarzan), Richard Harris, John Phillip Law,
Wilfrid Hyde-White, Akushula Selayah, Steven Strong
Released by: MGM/Svengali
Date: 1981, 112 minutes. Color.
Based on: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan the Fearless
Director: Robert Hill
Story: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Producer: Sol Lesser
Music: Henry Hadley, Hugo Riesenfeld, Milan Roder, Oliver Wallace, Sam Wineland
Photography: Joseph Brotherton, Harry Neumann
Editor: Carl Himm
Cast: Buster Crabbe (Tarzan), Julie Bishop (Mary Brooks), E. Alyn Warren (Dr. Brooks),
Edward Woods (Bob Hall), Mischa Auer (High Priest), Philo McCullough (Jeff Herbert), Matthew Betts (Nick Moran)
Released by: Principal Productions/Warner Brothers Television
Date: 1933, serial, 85 minutes. B & W.
Based on: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Tarzan the Tiger
Director: Henry McRae
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Photography:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Frank Merrill, Natalie Kingston, Lillan Worth, Al Ferguson
Released by: Universal
Date: 1929, serial. B & W.
Based on: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The Three Musketeers *
Director: George Sidney
Screenplay: Robert Ardrey
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Music: Herbert Stothart
Photography: Robert Planck
Cast: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner (Lady de Winter), June Allyson, Frank Morgan, Van Heflin,
Angela Lansbury, Vincent Price (Richelieu), Keenan Wynn, John Sutton, Gig Young, Robert Coote,
Reginald Owen, Ian Kieth, Patricia Medina
Released by: MGM
Date: 1948, 125 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (1844).
The Three Musketeers (aka The Queen's Diamonds)
Director: Richard Lester
Screenplay: George MacDonald Fraser
Producer: Alex Salkind
Music: Michel Legrand
Photography: David Watkin
Cast: Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamerlain, Frank Finlay,
Faye Dunaway, Raquel Welch, Geraldine Chaplin,
Charleton Heston, Christopher Lee, Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Spike Milligan
Released by: Film Trust
Date: 1973, 107 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (1844).
Sequel: The Four Musketeers, 1974.
Three Musketeers
Director: Stephen Herek
Screenplay: David Loughery
Producers: Joe Roth and Roger Birnbaum
Music: Michael Kamen
Photography: Dean Semler
Editor: John F. Link
Cast: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell,
Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca De Mornay, Gabrielle Anwar, Paul McGann, Julie Delphy
Released by: Buena Vista/Walt Disney/One for All
Date: 1993, 105 minutes. Color.
Based on: The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas (1844).
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Ray Kellogg, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Screenplay: Larry Forrester, Hideo Oguni, Ryuzo Kikushima
Producer: Elmo Williams
Music: Jerry Goldsmith
Photography: Charles F. Wheeler
Visual Effects: L. B. Abbott and Art Cruikshank Oscar
Cast: Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotton, James Whitmore, Jason Robards, Edward Andrews,
Leon Ames, George Macready, Soh Yamamura, Takahiro Tamura
Released by: Twentieth Century Fox
Date: 1970, 144 minutes. Color.
Based on: Pearl Harbor invasion, December 7, 1941.
We Were Soldiers
Director: Randall Wallace
Screenplay: Randall Wallace
Producers: Bruce Davey, Stephen McEveety, Randall Wallace
Music: Nick Glennie-Smith
Photography: Dean Semler
Editing: William Hoy
Cast: Mel Gibson (Lt. Col. Hal Moore), Madaleine Stowe (Julie Moore), Sam Elliott (Sergeant Major Basil Plumley),
Greg Kinnear (Major Bruce Crandall), Barry Pepper (Joe Galloway), Keri Russell (Barbara Geoghegan),
Chris Klein (2nd Lieutenant Jack Geoghegan), Billinjer C. Tran (Major Ma Van Minh)
Released by: Icon Entertainment International/The Wheelhouse/Paramount
Date: 2002, 137 minutes. Color.
Based on: We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young, by Joseph L. Galloway and Harold G. Moore.
Zorro
Director:
Screenplay:
Producer: Vittorio Galiano
Music:
Photography:
Visual Effects:
Cast: Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo, Enzo Cerusico,
Moustache, Adriana Asti, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Giampiero Albertini,
Marino Mase, Rajka Jurcec
Released by: Modial/Artistes Associes
Date: 1975, 100 minutes. Color.
Based on:
Zorro, the Gay Blade
Director:
Screenplay:
Producer:
Music:
Photography:
Visual Effects:
Cast: George Hamilton
Released by:
Date: 1981,
Based on:
