Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satire. Show all posts

Saturday, February 17, 2024

AMERICAN FICTION (2023)

 



Written & Directed By: Cord Jefferson 

Based on The Novel “ERASURE” By: Percival Everett 

Cinematography: Cristina Dunlap 

Editor: Hilda Rasula


Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis-Ross, Issa Rae, John Ortiz, Erika Alexander, Leslie Uggams, Adam Brody, Keith David, Miriam Shor, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Michael Cyril Creighton, Patrick Fischler

A novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

Saturday, July 22, 2023

SICK OF MYSELF (2023)

 


Written, Directed & Edited By Kristoffer Borgli

Cinematography: Benjamin Loeb 


Cast: Kristine Kujath Thorp, Elrik Sabther, Fanny Vaager, Sarah Francesca Braenne, Fredrik Sternberg Ditlev-Simonsen, Andrea Braein Hovig, Steinar Klouman Hallert, Ingrid Vollan 


Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.


Saturday, September 17, 2022

99 FRANCS (2007)

 


Directed By: Jan Kounen Written By: Jan Kounen, Bruno Lavaine & Nicolas Charlet Based On the book by Frederic Beigbeder Cinematography: David Ungaro Editor: Anny Danche


Cast: Jean Dujardin, Vahina Giocante, Jocelyn Quivrin, Patrick Mille, Elisa Tovati, Nicolas Marie, Dominique Bettenfeld


The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant ad designer, is filled with success, satire, misery, and love.

Friday, May 20, 2022

I CARE A LOT (2020)

 


Written & Directed By: J. Blakeson  Cinematography: Doug Emmett  Editor: Mark Eckersley 


Cast: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza Gonzalez, Dianne Wiest, Alicia Witt, Chris Messina, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Macon Blair, Damian Young, Nicholas Logan 

A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.

Thursday, May 19, 2022

THE COLUMNIST (2019)

 



Directed By: Ivo Van Aart  Written By: Daan Windhorst Cinematography: Martijn Cousijn  Editor: Irme Reutelingsperger & Yamal Stitiou 


Cast: Katja Herbers, Achraf Koutet, Genio De Groot, Rein Hoffman, Claire Porro, Bram Van Der Kelen, Medina Schuurman, Harry Van Ritjthourn 

A columnist must continuously deal with threats and negative comments on her social-media pages. One day, she has had enough and decides to hunt down her trolls.

Saturday, May 7, 2022

BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN (2021)

 


Written & Directed By: Radu Jude  Cinematography: Marius Panduru  Editor: Catalin Cristutu 


Cast: Katia Pascariu, Claudia Leremia, Olimpia Malai, Nicodim Ungureanu, Alexandru Potocean, Andi Vasluianu 

EMI, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. 

Friday, March 13, 2020

TERRORVISION (1986)



Written & Directed By: Ted Nicolau 
Cinematography: Romano Albani 
Editor: Thomas Meshelski 
Production Design & Art Direction By: Giovanni Natalucci 

Cast: Chad Allen, Diane Franklin, Mary Woronov, Gerrit Graham, Jon Gries, Bert Remsen, Alejandro Rey, Randi Brooks, Jennifer Richards 



Stan installs satellite TV for his family, but, soon, he picks up a signal from another planet and his television system becomes the gateway between the 2. A creature comes to his apartment and only their son Sherman sees it, but his parents don't believe the boy.

Saturday, October 5, 2019

VELVET BUZZSAW (2019)



Written & Directed By: Dan Gilroy 
Cinematography: Robert Elswit 
Editor: John Gilroy 

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Zawe Ashton, Rene Russo, John Malkovich, Tom Sturridge, Toni Colette, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Digs, Billy Magnussen 

A satire set in the contemporary art world scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

CHI-RAQ (2015)



Directed By: Spike Lee 
Written By: Spike Lee & Kevin Wilmott 
Based On The Play "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes 
Cinematography By: Matthew Libatique 
Editor: Ryan Denmark & Hye Mee Na 
Musical Score: Terence Blanchard 


Cast: Teyonah Parris, Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes, Nick Cannon, Angela Bassett, John Cusack, D.B. Sweeney, Jennifer Hudson, Harry Lennix, Steve Harris, Anthony Chisolm, Irma P. Hall, Lala Anthony, Felicia Pearson, Isiah Witlock Jr., Dave Chappelle, Roger Guenveur Smith, David Patrick Kelly , Anya Engel-Adams