Thursday, December 10, 2020

THE BAND'S VISIT (2007)

 


Written & Directed by: Eran Kolirin  Cinematography: Shai Goldman  Editor: Arik Leibovitch

Cast: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabatz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Najour, Rubi Moskovitz, Uri Gavriel, Hilla Sarjon 

A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.

Saturday, December 5, 2020

SHIRLEY (2020)



Directed By: Josephine Decker  Written By: Sarah Gubbins & Susan Scarf Merrell Cinematography: Sturla Brandth Grovlen  Editor: David Berker

Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Logan Lerman, Michael Stahlbarg, Odessa Young, Robert Wuhl, Victoria Pedretti 

As renowned for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, writer Shirley Jackson is crafting yet another masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds Fred and Rose disrupt her creative process and marriage to literary critic - and philandering professor - Stanley Hyman. As Stanley spars to maintain academic dominance over his would-be protégé Fred, Rose attempts to dampen her own ambitions and adjust to married life while living under the roof of their fiery intellectual hosts with quicksilver loyalties and myriad neuroses. When the motives of Shirley's literary muse prove elusive, Rose's curiosity and trusting nature make her tender prey for a brilliant author whose only allegiance is to her work.

SEBERG (2019)



Directed By: Benedict Andrews  Written By: Anna Whitehouse & Joe Shrapnel  Cinematography: Rachel Morrison  Editor: Pamela Martin 

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Vince Vaughn, Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie, Zazie Beetz, Yvan Attal, Margaret Quaker, Colm Meaney, Stephen Root

Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.

HOFFA (1992)



Directed By: Danny DeVito Written By: David Mamet  Cinematography: Stephen H. Burum  Editor: Lynzee Klingman & Ronald Roose  Music by: David Newman

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Frank Whaley, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly, Kevin Anderson, Robert Prosky, Cliff Gorman, Paul Guilfoyle, Karen Young, John P. Ryan

portrait of Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro. This film follows Hoffa's struggle to shape America's most influential labor union through his countless battles with the RTA. As he fights for workers' rights, Hoffa locks horns with industry management, organized crime and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In 1975, four years after serving his prison term, Hoffa disappears, in one of America's most fascinating unsolved crime mysteries.