Autumn In New York 2000   PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joan Chen
Cast: Richard Gere, Winona Ryder, Anthony LaPaglia, Elaine Stritch, Vera Farmiga, Sherry Stringfield, Jill Hennessy, J.K. Simmons, Sam Trammell, Mary Beth Hurt, Kali Rocha, Steven Randazzo, Toby Poser, George Spielvogel III, Ranjit Chowdhry
Will Keane (Richard Gere) has spent his life as a playboy enjoying life as a series of women enter and leave his domain. Now, he meets and falls for the beautiful, but terminally ill, Charlotte (Winona Ryder). Will is 48, and Charlotte is 22, but they enter into an affair. However, the affair appears doomed because of Will's unfaithfulness–unless Charlotte can convince Will to change his ways and help her through her illness.
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A Farewell to Arms 1957  N/R, 152 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Charles Vidor, John Huston
Cast: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Mercedes McCambridge, Oskar Homolka, Elaine Stritch, Leopoldo Trieste, Franco Interlenghi, Victor Francen, Kurt Kasznar, Jose Nieto, Georges Brehat, Johanna Hofer, Eduard Linkers
American ambulance driver for the Italian Army, Lt. Frederic Henry (Rock Hudson), meets Red Cross nurse Catherine (Jennifer Jones) during World War I, and they fall in love. Their affair results in Catherine's pregnancy, but Frederick returns to the front, and they lose contact with each other. The war ends for Frederic when he deserts the army and travels to Switzerland searching for Catherine.
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 Krippendorf's Tribe 1998  PG-13, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Todd Holland
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Gregory Smith, Carl Michael Lindner, Stephen Root, Elaine Stritch, Tom Poston, David Ogden Stiers, Lily Tomlin
A college professor, James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss), receives a grant to locate a lost New Guinea tribe. He fails in his quest but decides to fake a successful sabbatical by filming the "tribe" using his own children (Natasha Lyonne and Gregory Smith) dressed up to look like the New Guinea tribe. This film is fun and provides OK family entertainment.
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Monster-In-Law 2005 PG-13, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Robert Luketic
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes, Adam Scott, Annie Parisse, Monet Mazur, Elaine Stritch, Will Arnett, Stephen Dunham, Randee Heller, Mark Moses, Wayne Nickel, Tomiko Fraser, Rochelle Flexer
Charlotte (Jennifer Lopez) thinks that she has finally met the right man in Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan)–until they become engaged and his scheming mother, Viola (Jane Fonda), stops at almost nothing to get Charlotte out of Kevin's life.
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Out to Sea 1997  PG-13, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Martha Coolidge
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Dyan Cannon, Gloria DeHaven, Brent Spiner, Elaine Stritch, Hal Linden, Donald O'Connor, Edward Mulhare, Rue McClanahan
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau work together again–this time as Herb Sullivan and Charlie Gordon who are professional dance partners for women passengers on a cruise ship. This is their seventh film together, and Lemmon/Matthau fans will not be disappointed.
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The Perfect Furlough 1958 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Tony Curtis, Keenan Wynn, Elaine Stritch, Janet Leigh, Linda Cristal, Troy Donahue, Marcel Dalio, Les Tremayne, Jay Novello, King Donovan
Tony Curtis plays a soldier stationed in the Arctic when he wins a furlough to Paris where he begins a romance with a military psychiatrist (Janet Leigh).
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Providence 1977 R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alain Resnais
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, Elaine Stritch, Samson Fainsilber, Denis Lawson, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Milo Sperber, Anna Wing
This fantasy, written inside the mind of a 78 year old, involves family members and is the dying Clive Langham's last effort.
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Romance & Cigarettes 2006 R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: John Turturro
Cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken, Barbara Sukowa, Elaine Stritch, Eddie Izzard, Amy Sedaris, P.J. Brown, Adam LeFevre
In this off-beat musical, Kitty (Susan Sarandon) confronts her Queens construction worker husband, Nick (James Gandolfini), with evidence of pornography he has written. It turns out that Nick is having an affair with sexy underwear salesgirl Tula (Kate Winslet), and Kitty has the solution. With their three daughters–Rosebud (Aida Turturro), Constance (Mary-Louise Parker), and Baby (Mandy Moore)–supporting her, Kitty kicks Nick out of the house leaving him to make up his own mind of what he really should do. Throughout their trials, everyone seems to sing and dance in this down and dirty musical love story.
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The Scarlet Hour 1956 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch, E.G. Marshall, Ed Binns, Scott Marlowe, Billy Gray, Jacques Aubuchon
Marsh (Tom Tryon) is taken in by Paulie (Carol Ohmart) and is coerced into helping with a robbery during which Paulie's husband, Ralph (James Gregory), is killed.
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Screwed 2000  PG-13, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Cast: Norm MacDonald, Dave Chappelle, Elaine Stritch, Danny DeVito, Sherman Hemsley, Daniel Benzali, Malcolm Stewart, Lochlyn Munro, Brent Chapman, Brian Jensen
Threatened with being fired as the chauffeur, Willard Fillmore (Norm Macdonald) kidnaps his boss Miss Crock's (Elaine Stritch) pet dog, Muffin. But when Muffin escapes Fillmore's clutches and runs home, Miss Crock assumes that it is Fillmore who is the kidnap victim.
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Small Time Crooks 2000 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Michael Rapaport, Tony Darrow, Jon Lovitz, Elaine May, Elaine Stritch, Hugh Grant, George Grizzard, Brian McConnachie
Despite Frenchie Winkler's (Tracey Ullman) warning to her husband Ray (Woody Allen) to keep away from criminal activity, Ray has one more plot up his sleeve: buy a cookie store and tunnel from it into the neighboring bank vault. As luck would have it, the bank heist is fraught with problems, but the cookie store becomes a huge success. Tracey and Ray become millionaires, which brings on its own problems.
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Three Violent People 1956 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker, Elaine Stritch, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Peter Hanson, John Harmon
After the Civil War, Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) returns to Texas where he fights carpetbaggers and learns to deal with the news that his new bride was once a saloon hostess.
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| 1. Autumn In New York (2000)
2. A Farewell to Arms (1957)
3. Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
4. Monster-In-Law (2005)
5. Out to Sea (1997)
6. The Perfect Furlough (1958)
7. Providence (1977)
8. Romance & Cigarettes (2006)
9. The Scarlet Hour (1956)
10. Screwed (2000)
11. September (1987)
12. Small Time Crooks (2000)
13. Three Violent People (1956)
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