(M) Directed by Simon Curtis Aspiring filmmaker Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) was just was 23 years old in 1956 when he got a gofer job on set of The Prince and the Showgirl, directed by Laurence Olivier (played here by Kenneth Branagh). His first task was to find suitable accommodation for the film’s star Marilyn […]
Directed by Roman Polanski Two eleven year old boys have an altercation at the park and one hits the other in the mouth with a stick. The parents of the stick-wielder, Alan (Christopher Waltz) and Nancy Cowan (Kate Winslet), visit the parents of the injured child, Michael (John C Reilly) and Penelope (Jodie Foster), at […]
(MA) Directed by Maryam Keshavarz Maryam Keshavarz is an Iranian American who grew up in Brooklyn, spending her summers with her cousins in Iran. As a teenager, she compared her relatively privileged lifestyle with the restrictions on everything Western in her cousins’ lives. She also became aware that clubs with drinking and dancing were accessible […]
(MA) Directed by Gerald Hustache-Mathieu Crime fiction writer David Rousseau (Jean-Paul Rouve) goes to the remote mountain village of Monthe for a fruitless business trip and decides to stay in the coldest town in France order to cure his writer’s block. When he stumbles across the frozen body of a young woman whose death is […]