How men be afraid of “pussing out”!
Cast: Mark Duplass, Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore, Lynn Shelton, Trina Willard
Directed and written by Lynn Shelton
Music by Vinny Smith
Cinematography by Benjamin Kasulke
Film Editing by Nat Sanders
Tag Archives: art
“Big Eyes” (Tim Burton, USA 2014)
Strong performance by Amy Adams / weak structure
Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, Danny Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Director of Photography: Bruno Delbonnel
“A Monster Calls” (Juan Antonio Bayona, USA 2016)
Excellent direction, weak on minorities
Cast: Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Liam Neeson, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Writer: Patrick Ness, based upon the novel written by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd
Cinematographer: Oscar Faura
Editor: Jaume Marti, Bernat Vilaplana
Composer: Fernando Velázquez
“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
“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