Penenberg's story was a watershed for online investigative journalism and is portrayed in
the film Shattered Glass.
Other high - flyers in this category were BEFORE MIDNIGHT and THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, but the award went to Billy Ray, known in the industry for writing the first HUNGER GAMES instalment and for his acclaimed 2003 indie
film SHATTERED GLASS.
Not exact matches
Myhrvold's irreverent advice was just one of the cutting - edge food science and cooking tips that he shared during his talk, all the while dazzling the audience with
film clips of wine
glasses shattering, orange zest vaporizing, and a kernel of popcorn exploding in slow motion (as illustration of the kernel's «structural failure» to illustrate how water in food can become a «steam rocket» as the latent heat of the water builds up).
The longer the Earth opens up and makes mortar crumble and
glass shatter, the more the
film carries on.
As the
glass ceiling remains stubbornly intact, personal boundaries
shatter in this beautifully witty and deeply thoughtful
film.
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Director Billy Ray's only previous
film was
Shattered Glass, whose music was composed by Mychael Danna (though only after an effort by German duo Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil had been rejected).
Writer / director Tom McCarthy (The Visitor, The Station Agent) crafts a journalism procedural that's one of the best I've seen in ages, maybe since Billy Ray's 2003 stunner
Shattered Glass, his
film a meticulous, thought - provoking examination of the Fourth Estate at work that's as timeless as it is extraordinary.
Sanders previously directed commercials so he has all the basics down in terms of making the
film seductive to the eye from the fairy forest filled with fantastic creature to the
glass enemies that
shatter into shards when struck, but he struggles making it as epic as he intends.
The meat and potatoes are the
film's many scenes of the various hauntings inflicted on the characters, which establish an eerie sense of dread with many a creaking door, creepy clapping and
shattering glass coming from unpredictable corners.
Billy Ray («
Shattered Glass») wrote one of the many drafts of the
film, it's assumingly the script Sutherland's referring to.
The dramatic thriller is the third directorial effort from Billy Ray, who previously wrote and helmed
Shattered Glass and Breach but is best known for penning the screenplays for
films like The Hunger Games and Captain Phillips.
Here, Godzilla's default disinterestedness and the
film's elegiac depiction of a sudden urban warzone — one which mainly eschews the triumphalism of ascending missiles in favor of
shattered glass and base - jumping soldiers both falling from the reddened sky like teardrops as abstractions of Barber and Penderecki fill the soundtrack — add up to $ 160 million worth of roaring existentialism.
And while these three tiny cones outputted satisfyingly clear and sophisticated sounds (the tinkle of
glass from a broken window in The Dark Knight gave the impression that the pane had been
shattered in our living room), the lack of rear channels kept us from being fully immersed in the
film's audio.