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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Anton Corbijn’s The American

Corbijn’s Control was a passion project – and everything about it was tailor-fitted, so it’ll be interesting to see how the filmmaker evolves into a full-time filmmaker bringing his distinct style and sensibility to all sorts of material, including angry hitman.

IONCINEMA.com Top 100 Films

#26. The American

Director: Anton Corbijn
Writer(s): Rowan Joffe
Producers: This Is That Productions’ Anne Carey and Smoke House’s George Clooney and Grant Heslov
Distributor: Focus Features.

The Gist: Based on the Rowan Joffe-scripted adaptation of the Martin Booth novel A Very Private Gentleman, Jack (Clooney) is an artful assassin with a lengthy track record, constantly on the move and always watching his back. When an assignment goes wrong and a lover ends up dead, he vows that the next job will be his last.….(more)

Cast: George Clooney

Why is it on the list?: Corbijn’s Control was a passion project – and everything about it was tailor-fitted, so it’ll be interesting to see how the filmmaker evolves into a full-time filmmaker bringing his distinct style and sensibility to all sorts of material, including angry hitman.  

Release Date/Status?: September 1st.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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