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Adam LeedsSeason Two of HBO’s Girls Wraps
Girls (HB0) Starring Lena Dunham; Allison Williams; Zosia Mamet; Jemima Kirk; Adam Driver; Alex Karpovsky; Christopher Abbott; Andrew Rannells; Christopher Abbott; Chris O’Dowd; Jorma Taccone; Peter Scolari; Becky Ann Baker; John Cameron Mitchell; Shiri Appleby; Rosanna Arquette; Donald Glover; Billy Morrisette; Jon Glaser; Ben Mendelson With a finale co-written by show producers Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow, Girls ended it’s 10 episode filled season two last night in somewhat innocuous,...
The Cinema GuySmashed (2012)
Smashed (2012) Directed by James Ponsoldt; Written by James Ponsoldt; Susan Burke Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Aaron Paul; Nick Offerman; Megan Mullally; Octavia Spencer; Mary Kay Place; Kyle Gallner Thirty five year old James Ponsoldt (Off the Black) directs this Los Angeles set 500,000 dollar indie he co-wrote with Susan Burke. Smashed tells the story of Kate, a twenty-something kindergarten teacher with a serious drinking problem. Kate’s life with husband/Internet music critic Charlie...
Skyfall (2012)
Skyfall Directed by Sam Mendes Written by Neal Purvcis; Robert Wade; John Logan Starring Daniel Craig; Javier Bardem; Judy Dench; Ralph Fiennes; Naomie Harris; Berenice Marlohe; Ben Whishaw; Albert Finney; Rory Kinnear; Ola Rapace Bond films fall tightly into a sub genre of their own - spy/action/thrillers that have varied in terms of their camp factor, but always rely on the tenets that have made the franchise run: sex, action, and stunts, with a little witty banter tossed in for good measure....
This is Not a Film (2011)
This is not a Film (IRAN) Directed by Motjtaba Mirtahasb; Jafar Panahi Smuggled out of Iran on a USB drive hidden in a cake for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, This is Not a Film is an aptly titled work that the imprisoned fifty two year old Iranian director Jafar Panahi (The Mirror; Crimson Gold; The White Balloon) made with documentarian Motjaba Mirtahasb. In 2010 Panahi was sentenced to six years in prison and given a twenty year ban on traveling out of the country, writing or directing...
Memorable Performances from Actors Under 12
Quvenzhene Wallis has gotten a lot of recent acclaim over her role in Beasts of the Southern Wild, a film that was shot when she was 6 years old. There are those who believe really young children do not have the capacity to give an actual performance because they cannot intellectualize the process and are therefore simply behaving in the way that a trained seal might. Then again, what is acting if not behaving? Children possess innocence, and have marvelous imaginations, and acting requires...
Holy Motors (2012)
Holy Motors (FR/GE) Directed by Leos Carax Written by Leos Carax Starrring Denis Lavant; Edith Scob; Eva Mendes; Kylie Minogue; Michel Piccoli; Elise Lhomeau; Jeanne Disson; Nastya Golubeva Carax; Geoffrey Carey; Annabelle Dexter-Jones; Fifty two year old Leos Carax (real name Alexandre Oscar Dupont) has traveled a long road since the release of his last feature, Pola X, in 1999. The director, who had made three feature films by the time he was thirty, has been responsible for only two in the...
End of Watch (2012)
End of Watch (USA) Directed by David Ayer Written by David Ayer Starring Jake Gyllenhall; Michael Pena; Anna Kendrick; America Ferrera; Frank Grillo; David Harbour; Natalie Martinez; Jamie Fitzsimmons; Cody Horn; David Ayer (Street Kings; Harsh Times) writes and directs this 14 million dollar film, doing his level best to make it look like the budget was about 100,000. This dedication has him thinking up ways to have various characters use cheap HD video cameras (the film was shot on...
Undefeated (2011)
Undefeated (USA) (doc) Directed by Daniel Lindsay; TJ Martin The Blind Side was a fictionalized story about a real life African American high school football player, Michael Ohr, who was helped by a white family with ties to the program. While popular at the box office, the film enjoyed its share of controversy due to the racial component and the many inherent implications having to do with a wealthy white person saving the day for poor, downtrodden blacks. Undefeated is a high school football...
You Can’t Go Home Again (or Can You?)
There have been a plethora of recent films about adult characters living in/returning to/visiting their childhood homes/hometowns. These stories often involve characters experiencing mental health issues, substance abuse, sputtering careers (often artistic), and recently ended long term relationships. They return to their roots, licking their wounds, searching for affirmation and security. As they confront their own arrested development and unactualized would-be adulthoods, they are forced to...