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
“The Lovers On The Bridge” (Leos Carax, France 1991)
A homeless vagrant who possesses nothing is told that love is not for him…
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Gruber
Written and Directed by Leos Carax
Cinematography: Jean-Yves Escoffier
Editing: Nelly Quettier
“Awol” (Deb Shoval, USA 2016)
Actors: Lola Kirke, Breeda Wool, Dale Soules
Director: Deb Shoval
Writers: Deb Shoval, Karolina Waclawiak
Music: Gingger Shankar
Cinematography: Gal Deren
Editing: Jeffrey Wolf
“Brain On Fire” (Gerard Barrett, USA 2016)
Actors: Chloë Grace Moretz, Thomas Mann, Richard Armitage
Director: Gerard Barrett
Writers: Gerard Barrett (screenplay), Susannah Cahalan (memoir)
Music: John Paesano
Cinematography: Yaron Orbach
Editing: JC Bond
“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
“The Space Between Us” (Peter Chelsom, USA 2017)
The key roles given to women do not redeem the awful script and mediocre direction / The original idea deserves a better treatment
Cast: Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson, Carla Gugino, Gary Oldman
Director: Peter Chelsom
Writer: Allan Loeb
Writer (story): Stewart Schill, Richard Barton Lewis, Allan Loeb
Cinematographer: Barry Peterson
Editor: David Moritz
Composer: Andrew Lockington
“The Fits” (Anna Rose Holmer, USA 2015)
A mysterious and fascinating movie, though at times the tension falls away
Cast: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Makyla Burnam, Da’Sean Minor, Inayah Rodgers, Antonio A.B. Grant Jr., Lauren Gibson
Director: Anna Rose Holmer
Writer: Saela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer, Lisa Kjerulff
Cinematographer: Paul Yee
Editor: Saela Davis
Composer: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
“The Lunchbox” (Ritesh Batra, India 2013)
Director: Ritesh Batra
Writers: Ritesh Batra (screenplay), Vasan Bala (hindi dialogue consultant)
Actors: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Music: Max Richter
Cinematography: Michael Simmonds
Editing: John F. Lyons
“The Sense Of An Ending” (Ritesh Batra, UK 2017)
Weak scenario and direction, wrong music (!)
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery, Charlotte Rampling, Billy Howle
Director: Ritesh Batra
Writer (novel): Julian Barnes
Writer: Nick Payne
Cinematographer: Christopher Ross
Editor: John F. Lyons
Composer: Max Richter
“The Beautiful Risk” (Mark Penney, Canada 2013)
Dying to love, loving to death
Interesting use of landscapes; different sorts of music are superimposed; the screen stays black for quite a while; dialogues are sometimes ‘de-synchronized’…
Director: Mark Penney
Writer: Mark Penney
Actors: Shaun Benson, Eliane Gagnon, Michel Perron
Cinematography: Robert Smith
Editing: Mark Penney