by
Julien Faddoul
Captain Phillips **
The 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk
Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Blazingly constructed in its director’s
typical manner, this film forcefully dissects the grand illusion of economic diversity
in the face of life and death jeopardy. It would have been even more successful
had it not been bogged down by the conventions of love and family.
d – Paul Greengrass
w – Billy Ray (Based on the Book
by Richard Phillips, Stephan Talty)
ph – Barry Ackroyd
pd – Paul Kirby
m – Henry Jackman
ed – Christopher Rouse
cos – Mark Bridges
p – Dana Brunetti, Michael de Luca, Scott Rudin
Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat
M. Ali, Michael Chernus, Catherine Keener, Yul Vazquez
As I Lay Dying
When a matriarch dies, her family begins a quest to honour her wish to
be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
A conceited exercise disguised as a shy
artistic commission. Franco’s attempt is admirable but he is clearly out of his
element.
wd – James Franco (Based on the
Novel by William Faulkner)
ph – Christina Voros
pd – Kristen Adams
m – Tm O’Keefe
ed – Ian Olds
cos – Caroline Eselin
p – Caroline Aragon, Lee Caplin, Vince Jolivette, Avi Lerner, Miles Levy,
Matthew O'Toole, Robert Van Norden
Cast: James Franco, Logan Marshall-Green, Danny McBride, Tim Blake
Nelson, Ahna O'Reilly, Beth Grant, Jim Parrack, Jesse Heiman, Scott Haze
Escape From Tomorrow **
While on holiday
at Disney World, a father of two begins to lose his insanity among the barrage
of flight and fancy.
Lynchian dismemberment on why one man’s vision of
family entertainment became a stringent corporate conglomerate. Filmed guerrilla-style
at both Disney World, Florida and Disneyland, California, it stumbles over its
own absurdity toward the end but offers a bleak, abnormal outlook on childhood
dreams and their consequences.
wd – Randy Moore
ph – Lucas Lee Graham
pd – Sean Kaysen, Lawrence Kim
m – Abel Korzeniowski
ed – Soojin Chung
cos – Gara Gambucci
p – Soojin Chung, Gioia Marchese
Cast: Roy Abramsohn , Elena Schuber,
Katelynn Rodriguez, Jack Dalton, Danielle Safady, Annet Mahendru
