After a few minor roles, Reeves received a more sizable role in the 1986
drama film River's Edge, which depicted how a murder affected a group of teens.
Not exact matches
Like Barry Sonnenfeld, Wally Pfister and many more before her, Reed Morano is making the jump from esteemed cinematographer (her work includes «Frozen
River,» «Kill Your Darlings» and more) to feature
film director with the upcoming
drama, «Meadowland.»
Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his short story «Animal Rescue,» the movie doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work («Mystic
River,» «Gone Baby Gone»), but it's a grimy little crime
drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet
films of the 1970s.
Indie -
film fans are probably more familiar with Reed Morano than they realize: She's the cinematographer behind the camera on the heartbreaking Melissa Leo
drama Frozen
River, the Ginsberg / Kerouac meet - cute
film Kill Your Darlings, and the Kristen Wiig / Bill Hader angst - off The Skeleton Twins, among many other projects.
Emmy finally broke into
film in 2000 in a number of small independent features before snatching a part as the daughter of Sean Penn in the highly praised 2003
drama «Mystic
River.»
For that matter, the
film's producer is David Lynch, one of the few producers who might think it made perfect sense that a cop
drama set in San Diego would require location
filming on the Urubamba
River.
Courtney Hunt prepares at courtroom
drama for her second feature
film, can it find similar success at Oscars like «Frozen
River» did?
An ultra low - key Brooklyn crime
drama from the director of Bullhead and the writer of Mystic
River, the
film casts Tom Hardy as an almost comically gentle bartender who gets into some serious trouble when his place of employment — a neighborhood dive operated by his cousin (Gandolfini, in his final role), who got muscled into allowing Chechen mobsters to use it as a dirty - money bank — gets robbed.
Lone screenwriter Carol Heikkinen was still in her twenties when Empire Records became her second
filmed script, following the country music
drama The Thing Called Love (one of
River Phoenix's last works).
A
film like Wind
River usually requires a second wave of press at the end of the year, and in the wake of the allegations about Harvey Weinstein, I can't imagine anyone in their right mind sending Jeremy Renner out to do new interviews promoting his Weinstein - funded sexual - assault
drama.
Mudbound (Netflix) A quartet of nominations speak to a wide array of talent in this post-WWII period
drama: Director Dee Rees and Virgil Williams adapted the sprawling, racially charged novel's many narrative points of view into a manageable shape; Rachel Morrison brought a pastoral grandeur as the
film's cinematographer; and Mary J. Blige does double duty, contributing a moving performance as well as the original song, «Mighty
River,» with Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson.
Dee Rees» World War II
drama for Netflix, which also earned Mary J. Blige her first Oscar nominations with Supporting Actress and Original Song (Mighty
River), also made history when she was also was the first woman nominated for a feature
film from the American Society of Cinematographers Awards.
Films like that (and others like the 2014
drama Unbroken and the 2013 war
film Lone Survivor) defy box office predictions and it would be great to see Hollywood embrace such patriotic and original stories (one hopes that Eastwood's next
film Sully — about the pilot who overcame the odds and safely landed a disabled plane in the Hudson
River — will fit the bill).
A solar eclipse mirror ball, giant cuddly toys and an experimental 16th - century costume
drama filmed on the banks of the
river Tamar will all feature in new commissions celebrating 70 years of one of the UK's most important public art collections.
Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the black and white, 16 mm silent
film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice
drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda
River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.