Tag: Richard Gere
Oh, Canada | Review
Pieces of a Man: Schrader Explores Atonement in Toned Down Adaptation
Throughout his illustrious career as a director and screenwriter, Paul Schrader has specialized in...
The Dinner | Blu-ray Review
Premiering in competition at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, Oren Moverman’s The Dinner went on to receive a successful return at the box...
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer | DVD Review
Already one of the most obscured gems of 2017, Joseph Cedar’s impressive English debut Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New...
The Dinner | Review
Principles of Privilege: Moverman Dresses Morality Drama in American Clothes
Susan Sontag once famously wrote, “The white race is the cancer of human history,” an...
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Fixer Downer: Cedar Unleashes Fascinating Portrait of Aggravating Underdog
There’s an unshakeable sadness to Israeli director Joseph Cedar’s English language debut Norman: The Moderate Rise...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oren Moverman’s The Dinner
I don't recall the last time a novel had three book to film adaptations in such a rapid lapse of time, but the source...
Time Out of Mind | Review
Time to Time: Moverman’s Austere Portrait of Homelessness
There’s a deliberate soul-crushing methodology to Oren Moverman’s third feature Time Out of Mind (taking its title from...
Report to the Commissioner | Blu-ray Review
Another forgotten gem from the mid-1970s receiving a new Blu-ray treatment is 1975’s Report to the Commissioner, a textured police procedural examining changing social...
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | Review
The First Best Loser: Madden’s Wholly Unnecessary Sequel an Exercise in Nothingness
Pandering is the word that best describes the tone of The Second Best...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Renzi’s Franny
Moving from producer hat-wearing days (Afterschool, Two Gates of Sleep) to firmly stippling Park City with a metaphysical, deeply humane and serene portraits The Fort (2012) and Karaoke! (2013),...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #85. Andrew Renzi’s Franny
Franny
Director: Andrew Renzi
Writer: Andrew Renzi
Producers: Treehouse Pictures’ Justin Nappi and Kevin Turen, TideRock Media’s Thomas B Fore and Jason Michael Berman, Big Shoes Media’s...
Richard Gere is Living in the Past in Andrew Renzi’s Feature Debut; Sundance Lab “Franny” Shoots in October
He has been on our radar since he produced Alistair Banks Griffin’s Two Gates of Sleep (2010) and mounted his writing-directing projects in the...
