Eyes of Laura Mars 1978  R, 104 min.
Genre: Mystery / Horror / Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois, Darlanne Fluegel, Steve Marachuk, Raul Julia, Rose Gregorio, Frank Adonis, Lisa Taylor, Bill Boggs, Meg Mundy, Marilyn Meyers, Gary Bayer, Mitchell Edmonds
Fashion photographer Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) has premonitions about a series of gruesome murders involving her friends and associates. When they become victims of actual crimes, Laura seeks help. Police detective John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones) steps in to identify the killer. Gradually, Laura begins to realize that she is being stalked by the killer who seems to be trying to discredit her photography work.
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A Fine Madness 1966  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Jean Seberg, Joanne Woodward, Patrick O'Neal, Colleen Dewhurst, Clive Revill, Werner Peters, John Fiedler, Kay Medford, Jackie Coogan
Samson Shillito (Sean Connery) is a non-conformist poet whose wife, Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), talks him into visiting Dr. West (Patrick O'Neal) for psychiatric treatment to get his life back on track. After bedding down with West's wife (Jean Seberg), the good doctor seeks retaliation through a lobotomy for his patient.
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The Flim-Flam Man 1967  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: George C. Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Albert Salmi, Slim Pickens, Strother Martin, George Mitchell
Since only characters who deserve to be taken are cheated, this movie works as it tells the story of a con artist (George C. Scott) who takes an Army deserter under his wing and teaches him a few things about dishonesty.
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Hoodlum Priest 1961 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Don Murray, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Keir Dullea, Logan Ramsey, Don Joslyn, Sam Capuano, Vince O'Brien, Al Mack, Lou Martini
This film is based on the real-life story of St. Louis priest Charles Dismas Clark, who worked to help juvenile delinquents and rehabilitate ex-convicts. The specific example of Clark's work is provided by the case of ex-convict Billy Lee Jackson (Keir Dullea), whose attempts at rehabilitation went very, very wrong.
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The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 R, 160 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Verna Bloom, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Andre Gregory, Nehemiah Persoff, Roberts Blossom, John Lurie, Paul Greco, Barry Miller, Gary Basaraba, Irvin Kershner, Victor Argo
Based on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, this controversial biblical interpretation presents Christ as a man in the middle of a dilemma of life as the Son of God or that of an ordinary man. Scorsese received an Oscar nomination for his Directorial efforts.
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Loving 1970  R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Nancie Phillips, Janis Young, David Doyle, Paul Sparer, Andrew Duncan, Roland Winters, Sherry Lansing, Edgar Stehli
Based on a novel by J.M. Ryan, this slow comedy/drama follows freelance illustrator Brooks (George Segal) who lives in Connecticut with wife Selma (Eva Marie Saint) and two children. He also is having an affair with Grace (Janis Young) and longs for an opportunity to get into the fine arts arena. So let the cameras roll.
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 Never Say Never Again 1983  PG, 134 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Sean Connery, Barbara Carrera, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow, Kim Basinger, Edward Fox, Bernie Casey, Alec McCowen, Michael Medwin, Ronald Pickup, Pamela Salem, Rowan Atkinson, Valerie Leon, Milos Kirek, Anthony Sharp
In this remake of "Thunderball" (1965), James Bond is back, and this time it is Sean Connery playing the indomitable Agent 007. SPECTRE has stolen two cruise missiles from the U.S. and is planning to use them in its plot to carry out nuclear blackmail against NATO countries. Bond's mission is to recover the missiles from the evil Maximilian Largo (Klaus Maria Brandauer), and he gets help from Largo's mistress Domino (Kim Bassinger) when he heads to the Bahamas in search of the missiles.
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Raid on Entebbe 1977 TV, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden, Yaphet Kotto, Dinah Manoff, James Woods, Sylvia Sidney
This film is about the Israeli raid on July 4, 1976, to free Jewish hostages being held in Uganda.
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The Return of a Man Called Horse 1976 PG, 129 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Richard Harris, Gale Sondergaard, Geoffrey Lewis, William Lucking, Jorge Luke, Enrique Lucero, Ana DeSade, Claudio Brook, Jorge Russek
This excellent sequel to "A Man Called Horse" again features Richard Harris portraying John Morgan, a former captive of the Sioux who returns to America to help save his tribe from the perils of Western expansion by white Americans. There is another sequel: "Triumphs of a Man Called Horse."
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 RoboCop 2 1990 R, 117 min.
Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan, Dan O'Herlihy, Willard E. Pugh, Belinda Bauer, Felton Perry, Robert DoQui, Gabriel Damon, Patricia Charbonneau, John Glover, Mario Machado, Leeza Gibbons, John Ingle, Roger Aaron Brown
The futuristic cyborg RoboCop (Peter Weller) again fights evil forces but is scheduled by OCP, the company that created Robocop, to be replaced by a more modern model: RoboCop 2. Cain (Tom Noonan) leads a drug ring and plans to get his hands on the drug Nuke and market it to Detroit's citizens. When RoboCop arrests Cain, Cain is injured and OCP designer Faxx (Belinda Bauer) secretly takes Cain's brain and inserts it into RoboCop 2. Now, the battle ensues as RoboCop must wipe out the evil, psychotic RoboCop 2. There is one more sequel.
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S*P*Y*S 1974  PG, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Action
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Kenneth Griffith, Vladek Sheybal, Kenneth J. Warren, Yuri Borienko, Michael Petrovitch, Pierre Oudrey, Jacques Marin, Shane Rimmer, George Pravda, Nigel Hawthorne, Andy Ho
In this satire on the espionage world, CIA agents Griff (Elliott Gould) and Bruland (Donald Sutherland) have repeatedly bumbled their assignments. Their ineptness results in them being targeted for elimination not only by the KGB but by the CIA as well.
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Traveling Man 1989 TV, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: John Lithgow, Jonathan Silverman, Margaret Colin, John Glover, John M. Jackson, Chynna Phillips, Tim Ware, David Dwyer, Marc Clement, Danny Nelson, Jennifer Hale, J. Don Ferguson
Top salesman Ben Cluett (John Lithgow) may be over the hill, and now eager up-and-comer Billy Fox (Jonathan Silverman) is assigned as his assistant. But there may be a new life ahead when Ben meets Joanna (Margaret Colin). Made for TV.
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Up the Sandbox 1972 R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irvin Kershner
Cast: Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Ariane Heller, Jane Hoffman, John C. Becher, Jacobo Morales, Paul Benedict, George S. Irving, Jane House, Rita Karin
In this witty comedy, outrageous fantasies fill the moments of boredom endured by a young housewife, Margaret Reynolds (Barbra Streisand).
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| 1. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
2. A Fine Madness (1966)
3. The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
4. Hoodlum Priest (1961)
5. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
6. Loving (1970)
7. Never Say Never Again (1983)
8. Raid on Entebbe (1977)
9. The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976)
10. RoboCop 2 (1990)
11. S*P*Y*S (1974)
12. Traveling Man (1989)
13. Up the Sandbox (1972)
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