Cast: Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis, Winny Clarke
Director: Sarah Rotella
Writer: Adrianna DiLonardo
Cinematography: Ryan Glover
Editing:Haya Waseem
Category Archives: 6,0-6,9
“La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, USA 2016)
excellent music
weak script
No good movie can be made on a bad script!
Beloved reader, please DO NOT READ further! If you have seen the movie and enjoyed it – like everyone else seems to have – don’t read further, I might spoil your pleasure.
If you haven’t seen the movie, do like everybody else: enjoy it.
SPOILERS ahead!
“Nocturnal Animals” (Tom Ford, USA 2016)
strongest: montage
weakest: message, humor
A story set inside a story and related to it, to which flashbacks are added
Cast: Amy Adams, Armie Hammer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ellie Bamber, Isla Fisher, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon, Karl Glusman
Director: Tom Ford
Writer: Tom Ford, Austin Wright (novel)
Cinematographer: Seamus McGarvey
Composer: Abel Korzeniowski
Editor: Joan Sobel
“Mr. Church” (Bruce Beresford, USA 2016)
strongest: minorities
weakest: direction + structure
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Susan McMartin
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Britt Robertson, Natascha McElhone
“All We Had” (Katie Holmes, USA 2016)
strongest: minorities
weakest: script
Director: Katie Holmes
Writers: Josh Boone (screenplay), Jill Killington
Stars: Eve Lindley, Richard Kind, Mark Consuelos
“Always Shine” (Sophia Takal, USA 2016)
strongest: direction
weakest: message
Director: Sophia Takal
Writer: Lawrence Michael Levine
Actors: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine
“Sully” (Clint Eastwood, USA 2016)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Todd Komarnicki (screenplay), Chesley Sullenberger (based on the book “Highest Duty” by) (as Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger)
Actors: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney
“Up In The Air” (Jason Reitman, USA 2009)
Director: Jason Reitman
Writers: Walter Kirn (novel), Jason Reitman (screenplay)
Actors: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick
Happy ending for everyone except for the hero: you only got what you deserve!
“Woman On The Run” (Norman Foster, USA 1950) + “Too Late For Tears” (Byron Haskin, USA 1949)
Director: Norman Foster
Writers: Alan Campbell (screenplay), Norman Foster (screenplay)
Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
Director: Byron Haskin
Writers: Roy Huggins (screenplay), Roy Huggins (serial)
Actors: Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea
“The Whole Truth” (Courtney Hunt, US 2016)
Director: Courtney Hunt
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw