The movie tries to asnwer such relevant–and perhaps uniquely American–questions as: What keeps a person trying and trying then faltering and then knocking their head against the wall until the point of success?
Joy (2015): David O. Russell’s Biopic–Another Meditation on the American Dream of Success and Failure
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens–Director JJ Abrams on his Phenom Film
December 7, 2015 by
One of the amazing things about what George Lucas created was a sense of possibility and unlimited opportunity–JJ Abrams
Son of Saul: Cinematographer Matyas Erdely on Acclaimed Holocaust Drama
November 21, 2015 by
Matyas Erdely is the Hungarian cinematographer behind two interesting films this season, Mond’s James White, which stars Christopher Abbott as a troubled New Yorker whose casual attitude to life is challenged when death and illness intrude. Making its debut in January at Sundance, where it won the audience award in Next series, Mond’s film played at […]
Big Short: Interview With Writer-Director Adam McKay
November 20, 2015 by
“I started reading the book at around 10:30 at night and thought, ‘I’ll just read 40 pages,’” director Adam McKay recalls. “I couldn’t put it down. I ended up reading the whole thing that night and finished at six in the morning. The next day I told my wife about the characters and how the […]
Lobster, The: Interview with Director Yorgos Lanthimos
November 17, 2015 by
The Lobster, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, won the Jury Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Fest. In 2009, Lanthimos had a great breakthrough at Cannes winning with “Dogtooth,” a film that also won the Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Fest and was then nominated for a foreign-language Oscar. The Lobster is his first film in […]
