Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon
Writers: Aaron Sorkin (play), Aaron Sorkin (screenplay)
Music: Marc Shaiman
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Editing: Robert Leighton, Steven Nevius
Category Archives: 6,0-6,9
“Shimmer Lake” (Oren Uziel, USA 2017)
Cast: Rainn Wilson, Benjamin Walker, John Michael Higgins, Rob Corddry, Adam Pally
Director: Oren Uziel
Writer: Oren Uziel
Cinematographer: Jarin Blaschke
Editor: Blake Maniquis
Composer: Joseph Trapanese
“Deep Impact” (Mimi Leder, USA 1998)
An interesting mix of personages: a woman that has her daughter around when she’s at work, cosmonauts as parents, an ‘old’ man as cosmonaut, a black president (years before Obama), a teenager boy and girl getting married… but too scattered along the mainline of the story.
Cast: Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Morgan Freeman, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave
Directed: Mimi Leder
Written: Michael Tolkin, Bruce Joel Rubin
Music: James Horner
Cinematography: Dietrich Lohmann
Editing: Paul Cichocki, David Rosenbloom
“Onegin” (Martha Fiennes, UK 1999)
Excellent camera work, but the story is as cold as a Russian winter
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens, Lena Headey, Martin Donovan, Irene Worth
Directed by Martha Fiennes
Written by Michael Ignatieff, Peter Ettedgui
Based On The Novel by Alexander Pushkin
“Berlin Syndrome” (Cate Shortland, Australia 2017)
Cast: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Lucie Aron, Matthias Habich, Emma Bading
Director: Cate Shortland
Writer (novel): Melanie Joosten
Writer: Shaun Grant, Cate Shortland
Cinematographer: Germain McMicking
Editor: Jack Hutchings
Composer: Bryony Marks
“Hounds Of Love” (Ben Young, Australia 2016)
Excellent direction and music
Cast: Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry, Susie Porter, Damian de Montemas, Harrison Gilbertson, Fletcher Humphrys
Director: Ben Young
Screenplay: Ben Young
Editor: Merlin Eden
Director of Photography: Michael McDermot
“Right Now, Wrong Then” ( Sang-soo Hong, South Korea 2015)
The message is a bit simplistic, but the personages are appealing.
Cast: Jae-yeong Jeong, Min-hee Kim, Yeo-jeong Yoon
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Writer: Hong Sang-soo
Music: Yong-jin Jeong
Cinematography: Hong-yeol Park
“Adult Life Skills” (Rachel Tunnard, UK 2016)
Some good dialogues and interesting personages, but weak script and episodic music
Actors: Jodie Whittaker, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein
Director: Rachel Tunnard
Writer: Rachel Tunnard
Cinematography: Bet Rourich
Editing: Rachel Tunnard
“Gifted” (Marc Webb, USA 2017)
Bland music, story with little credibility, emotional manipulation. In the same genre, Carrie Pillby is much better.
Cast: Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Lindsay Duncan, Jenny Slate, Octavia Spencer
Director: Marc Webb
Writer: Tom Flynn
Cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh
Editor: Bill Pankow
Composer: Rob Simonsen
“The Levelling” (Hope Dickson Leach, UK 2016)
Depressingly slow moving drama filled with silences
Cast: Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden
Director: Hope Dickson Leach
Writer: Hope Dickson Leach
Music: Hutch Demouilpied
Cinematography: Nanu Segal
Editing: Tom Hemmings