One Writer, Four Directors
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, Zlatko Buric
Directed: Stephen Frears
Written: Steve Knight
Category Archives: romance,
“Saving Face” (Alice Wu, USA 2004)
Coming out in the American-Chinese community
Cast: Joan Chen, Michelle Krusiec, Lynn Chen
Director: Alice Wu
Writer: Alice Wu
Music: Anton Sanko
Cinematography: Harlan Bosmajian
Editing: Susan Graef, Sabine Hoffman
“The Edge Of Seventeen” (Kelly Fremon Craig, USA 2016)
A notch above other coming-of-age movies for its very accurate portray of the egocentric worldview that characterizes adolescence
Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Kyra Sedgwick, Woody Harrelson, Hayden Szeto, Alexander Calvert
Director: Kelly Fremon Craig
Writer: Kelly Fremon Craig
Cinematographer: Doug Emmett
Editor: Tracey Wadmore-Smith
Composer: Atli Örvarsson
“Almost Adults” (Sarah Rotella, USA 2016)
Cast: Elise Bauman, Natasha Negovanlis, Winny Clarke
Director: Sarah Rotella
Writer: Adrianna DiLonardo
Cinematography: Ryan Glover
Editing:Haya Waseem
“Certified Copy” (Abbas Kiarostami, France 2010)
Cast: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carriere
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Writers: Caroline Eliacheff (collaborator on screenplay), Abbas Kiarostami
Cinematography: Luca Bigazzi
Editing: Bahman Kiarostami
“Hacksaw Ridge” (Mel Gibson, USA 2016)
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Rachel Griffiths, Matthew Nable, Luke Bracey
Director: Mel Gibson
Writer: Andrew Knight, Robert Schenkkan
Cinematographer: Simon Duggan
Editor: John Gilbert
Composer: Rupert Gregson-Williams
“Songcatcher” (Maggie Greenwald, USA 2001)
Cast: Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Emmy Rossum, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams
Written and Directed: Maggie Greenwald
Music: David Mansfield
Cinematography: Enrique Chediak
Editing: Keith Reamer
“Hidden Figures” (Theodore Melfi, USA 2016)
strong message
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Aldis Hodge, Kirsten Dunst, Glen Powell, Mahershala Ali, Jim Parsons, Olek Krupa
Director: Theodore Melfi
Writer: Margot Lee Shetterly (book by), Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi
Cinematographer: Mandy Walker
Editor: Peter Teschner
Composer: Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, Hans Zimmer
“Guernica” (Koldo Serra, Spain 2016)
strong message
weak montage
Cast: María Valverde, Burn Gorman, James D’Arcy, Jack Davenport
Director: Koldo Serra
Writers: José Alba (story), Carlos Clavijo Cobos
Music: Fernando Velázquez
Cinematography: Unax Mendia
Editing: José Manuel Jiménez
“La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, USA 2016)
excellent music
weak script
No good movie can be made on a bad script!
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If you haven’t seen the movie, do like everybody else: enjoy it.
SPOILERS ahead!