SPREAD (2024)

 

Directed By: Ellie Kanner 

Written By: Buffy Charlet 

Cinematography: Corey MacGregor 

Editor: Jason Dale and Freddie DeLaVega

Cast: Elizabeth Gillies, Harvey Keitel, Diedrich Bader, Doira Bird, Teri Polo, Keith Walker, Dia Frampton, Bryan Craig, Blake Harrison, Jonah Platt

To make ends meet, an aspiring journalist is forced to take a job at the world's largest porn magazine-beginning her journey to change her life, and the porn industry, forever.

THE TWO JAKES (1990)

 

Directed by: Jack Nicholson  Written By: Robert Towne  Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond  Editor: Anne Goursaud

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeline Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Blades, David Keith, James Hong, Frederic Forrest, Richard Farnsworth, Tracey Walter, Joe Mantell, Perry Lopez, Rebecca Broussard, Van Dyke Parks

The sequel to Chinatown finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.

MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012)

 

Directed By: Wes Anderson  Written By: Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola  Cinematography: Robert D. Yeoman Editor: Andrew Weisblum

Cast: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Harvey Keitel, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Bob Balaban, Lucas Hedges 

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down - which might not be such a bad thing.

POINT OF NO RETURN (1993)

Director: John Badham 
Written By: Robert Getchell & Alexandra Seros 
Based on the original Screenplay By: Luc Besson 
Cinematography: Michael Watkins 
Editor: Frank Morriss 
Music By: Hans Zimmer 


Cast: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Bancroft, Miguel Ferrer, Dermot Mulroney, Harvey Keitel, Olivia D’Abo, Richard Romanus, Geoffrey Lewis, Lorraine Toussaint, Michael Rapaport 

Drug addict Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top secret U.S. government Agent "Bob" arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a killer. She gets a new cover identity as saleswoman Claudia Anne Doran. She also finds a housemate, building super J.P., a broad-minded, gentle photographer. The two fall in love, and that complicates her government assignments. His influence extends to breeding in her a conscience that supplants her violent tendencies, and desire to continue work for the agency.

YOUTH (2015)

Written & Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino 
Cinematography By: Luca Bigazzi 
Editor: Christiano Travaglioli 
Production Design: Ludovica Ferrario 


Cast: Harvey Keitel, Michael Caine, Paul Dano, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda, Madelina Diana Ghenea, Chloe Pirrie 


Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.

BE COOL (2005)

Directed By: F. Gary Grey 
Written By: Peter Steinfeld 
Based on the novel by: Elmore Leonard 
Cinematography By: Jeffrey L. Kimball 
Editor: Sheldon Kahn 


Cast: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Harvey Kietel, Christina Milian, Kimberly J. Brown, James Woods, Cedric The Entertainer, Andre Benjamin, Vince Vaughn, Steven Tyler, Danny DeVito, Robert Pastorelli, Dwayne Johnson, Arielle Kebbel, Scott Adsit, Gregory Alan Williams, Paul Adelstein, Debi Mazar

FINGERS (1978)

Written & Directed By: James Toback 
Cinematography By: Michael Chapman 
Editor: Robert Lawrence 

 Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Michael V. Gazzo, Jim Brown, Mirian Seldes, Danny Aiello, Ed Marinaro, Tanya Roberts, Tony Sirico, Dominic Chainese

MOTHER, JUGS & SPEED (1976)

Directed By: Peter Yates 
Written By: Tom Mankewicz 
Story By: Tom Mankewicz & Stephen Manes 
Cinematography By: Ralph Woolsey 
Editor: Frank P. Keller 

 Cast: Bill Cosby, Larry Hagman, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, L.Q. Jones, Bruce Davison, Dick Butkus

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES: HALL OF FAME: FILE #25: BLUE IN THE FACE (1995)

Directed By: Wayne Wang & Paul Auster; Harvey Wang (Video Segments) 
Written By: Wayne Wang & Paul Auster (Situations) 
Cinematography By: Adam Holender 
Editor: Christopher Tellefsen 

Cast: Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Malik Yoba, Roseanne, Madonna, Lily Tomlin, Mel Gorham, Mira Sorovino, Jared Harris, Jim Jaramusch, Lou Reed, Giancarlo Esposito, Jose Zuniga, RuPaul, Michael J. Fox