KRAVEN THE HUNTER (2024)

 

Directed By: J.C. Chandor

Written By: Richard Wenk, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway 

Story By: Richard Wenk

Based on characters created by: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko 

Cinematography: Ben Davis 

Editor: Milos Djakovic and Zach Vandlik 

Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Alessandro Nivola, Russell Crowe, Christopher Abbott, Levi Miller 

Kraven's complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.

THE ART OF SELF DEFENSE (2019)

 

Written & Directed By: Riley Stearns

Cinematography: Michael Ragen

Editor: Sarah Beth Shapiro

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Steve Terada, David Zellner, Philip Andre Botello, Jason Burkey, Mike Brooks, CJ Rush

One night, Casey, a scrawny, bookish accountant, is beaten up for no apparent reason by a motorcycle gang. Traumatized, he sets out to ensure this doesn't happen again. Then he stumbles across a karate school. He joins but progress is slow. Then the teacher starts to force him to be more aggressive.

BOSTON STRANGLER (2023)

Written & Directed By: Matt Ruskin  Cinematography: Ben Kutchins  Editor: Anne McCabe

Cast: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane, David Dastmalchain, Peter Gerety, Robert John Burke, Ryan Winkles, Morgan Spector 

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.

THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK (2021)

 

Directed By: Alan Taylor  Written by: David Chase & Lawrence Konner Cinematography: Kramer Morgenthau Editor: Christopher Tellefsen

Cast: Alessandro Nivola, Ray Liotta, Leslie Odom Jr, Vera Farmiga, Jon Bernthal, Corey Stoll, Michael Gandolfini, Michaela De Rossi, Billy Magnussen, John Magaro, Joey Diaz, Talia Balsam, Ed Marinaro

Before becoming the notorious crime legend, young and inexperienced Anthony Soprano was under the wing of his father figure and mentor, Dickie Moltisanti. Against the backdrop of racial injustice during the violent 1967 Newark riots in the streets of Newark, New Jersey, and a destructive, all-out gang war with ambitious, mighty challengers, Uncle Dickie shows Tony the ropes, paving the way for a new era in crime.

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2018)

Written & Directed By: Lynn Ramsay 
Based on the book By: Jonathan Ames 
Cinematography By: Tom Townend 
Editor: Joe Bini 
Music By: Johnny Greenwood 


Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Alessandro Nivola, Judith Roberts, John Doman, Alex Mannette 

Balancing between feverish dreamlike hallucinations of a tormented past and a grim disoriented reality, the grizzled Joe. a traumatised Gulf War veteran and now an unflinching hired gun who lives with his frail elderly mother has just finished successfully yet another job. With an infernal reputation of being a brutal man of results, the specialised in recovering missing teens enforcer will embark on a blood-drenched rescue mission, when Nina, the innocent 13-year-old daughter of an ambitious New York senator, never returns home. But amidst half-baked leads and a desperate desire to shake off his shoulders the heavy burden of a personal hell, Joe's frenzied plummet into the depths of Tartarus is inevitable, and every step Joe takes to flee the pain, brings him closer to the horrors of insanity. In the end, what is real, and what is a dream? Can there be a new chapter in Joe's life when he keeps running around in circles?

I WANT YOU (1999)

Directed By: Michael Winterbottom 
Written By: Eoin McNamee 
Cinematography By: Slawomir Idziak 
Editor: Trevor Waite 


Cast: Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola, Labina Mitevska, Luka Petrusic, Phylidia Law 



Helen is a young woman running a hairdressing salon; Bob is her boyfriend and local radio DJ; Honda is a mute kid who's secretly taping people's conversation and Smokey is Honda's sister who sings at local bar. New guy in town is the mysterious Martin, who shares some dark history with Helen and observes her from afar at first. Honda falls in love with Helen and starts taping her conversations with Bob, and that leads to reactivation of the Helen-Martin relationship

THE NEON DEMON (2016)

Directed & Story By: Nicolas Winding Refn 
Written By: Nicolas Winding Refn, Polly Stenham & Mary Laws 
Cinematography By: Natasha Braier 
Editor: Matthew Newman 
Music By: Cliff Martinez 


Cast: Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Karl Glusman, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote, Desmond Harrington, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Alessandro Nivola, Jamie Clayton

 *Please note that some trivia and facts have been republished from imdb among other sources In this review

TIMECODE (2000)

Story By & Directed By: Mike Figgis 
Cinematography By: Patrick Alexander Stewart 


Cast: Holly Hunter, Xander Berkley, Salma Hayek, Golden Brooks, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Danny Huston, Saffron Burrows, Viveka Davis, Mia Maestro, Richard Edson, Gleanne Headley, Daphna Kastner, Kyle Maclachlan, Leslie Mann, Zuleikha Robinson, Julian Sands, Alessandro Nivola, Steven Weber, Stellan Skarsgard, Aimee Graham

GINGER & ROSA (2012)

Written & Directed By: Sally Potter 
Cinematography By: Robbie Ryan 
Editor: Anders Refn 

 Cast: Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, Annette Bening, Jodhi May, Alice Englert, Oliver Platt, Timothy Spall, Christina Hendricks,