Showing posts with label Aaron Sorkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aaron Sorkin. Show all posts

Friday, March 10, 2023

MONEYBALL (2011)

 


Directed By: Bennett Miller Written By: Aaron Sorkin And Steve Zaillian  Story By: Stan Chervin Based on the book “MONEYBALL: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game” by: Michael Lewis  Cinematography: Wally Pfister Editor: Christopher Tellefsen 


Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Stephen Bishop, Reed Diamond, Brent Jennings, Tammy Blanchard, Nick Searcy, Arliss Howard


Oakland A's GM Billy Beane is handicapped with the lowest salary constraint in baseball. If he ever wants to win the World Series, Billy must find a competitive advantage. Billy is about to turn baseball on its ear when he uses statistical data to analyze and place value on the players he picks for the team.

Saturday, December 10, 2022

BEING THE RICARDOS (2021)

 


Written & Directed By: Aaron Sorkin  Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth Editor: Alan Baumgarten


Cast: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jake Lacy, Linda Lavin, Ronny Cox, Clark Gregg, Nelson Franklin 

September 6, 1953. With Hollywood facing the ever-present threat of Joseph McCarthy's smear campaign, Lucille Ball, America's beloved redhead and star of the tremendously popular CBS sitcom I Love Lucy , finds herself confronted with the Red Scare hysteria. As the American columnist and radio personality Walter Winchell drops a bombshell at the end of his broadcast, Lucille and her Cuban-American actor husband Desi Arnaz must survive one long, overwhelmingly eventful week, as if navigating a rocky marriage wasn't enough. As a result, in the following seven distressful days, scandalous gossip and ongoing infidelity will put the couple's relationship to the test.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (2020)

 



Written & Directed By: Aaron Sorkin  Cinematography: Phedon Papamichael  Editor: Alan Baumgarten


Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, Alex Sharp, John Carroll Lynch, Yahya Abdul-Manteen II, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Ben Shenkman, Frank Langella, Michael Keaton, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Caitlin Fitzgerald 

What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest--including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, and Bobby Seale--were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot. The trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.

Friday, June 15, 2018

MOLLY'S GAME (2017)



Written & Directed By: Aaron Sorkin 
Based on the book by: Molly Bloom 
Cinematography By: Charlotte Bruus Christensen 
Editor: Alan Baumgarten, Elliot Graham & Josh Schaeffer 

Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera, Bill Camp, Jeremy Strong, Brian d’Arcy james, Chris O’Dowd, Graham Greene, J.C. Mackenzie, Angela Gots, 


Molly Bloom, a beautiful young Olympic-class skier, ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans, and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey, who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe to her lawyer as well as excerpts form her book. We follow her story.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007)

Directed By: Mike Michols Written By: Aaron Sorkin Based On the book By: George Crile Cinematography By: Stephen Goldblatt Editor: John Bloom & Antonia Van Drimmelen Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, John Slattery, Emily Blunt, Rachel Nichols, Shiri Appleby, Ned Beatty, Om Purri, Denis O’Hare.