Showing posts with label George Clooney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Clooney. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2018

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME: FILE #0054: CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (2002)



Directed By: George Clooney 
Written By: Charlie Kaufman 
Based on the Novel By: Chuck Barris 
Cinematography By: Newtom Thomas Sigel 
Editor: Stephen Mirrione 


Cast: Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore, Rugter Hauer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Cera, Robert John Burke, Rachelle Lefevre, Jerry Weintraub, Richard Kind, James Urbaniak 


Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Friday, March 9, 2018

SUBURBICON (2017)



Directed By: George Clooney 
Written By: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, George Clooney & Grant Heslov 
Cinematography By: Robert Elswit 
Editor: Stephen Mirrione 


Cast: Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar issac, Noah Jupe, Richard Kind, Jack Conley, Gary Basaraba 

In the bosom of Suburbicon, a family-centred, all-white utopia of manicured lawns and friendly locals, a simmering tension is brewing, as the first African-American family moves in the idyllic community, in the hot summer of 1959. However, as the patriarch Gardner Lodge and his family start catching a few disturbing glimpses of the once welcoming neighbourhood's dark underbelly, acts of unprecedented violence paired with a gruesome death will inevitably blemish Suburbicon's picture-perfect facade. Who would have thought that darkness resides even in Paradise?

Saturday, December 9, 2017

THE AMERICAN (2010)



Directed By: Anton Corbijn 
Written By: Rowan Joffe 
Based On The Novel By: Martin Booth 
Cinematography By: Martin Ruhe 
Editor: Andrew Hulme 


Cast: George Clooney, Irina Bjorklund, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen, Thekla Rueten, Violante Placido, Filipo Timi 


Alone among assassins, Jack is a master craftsman. When a job in Sweden ends more harshly than expected for this American abroad, he vows to his contact Pavel that his next assignment will be his last. Jack reports to the Italian countryside, where he holes up in a small town and relishes being away from death for a spell. The assignment, as specified by a Belgian woman, Mathilde, is in the offing as a weapon is constructed. Surprising himself, Jack seeks out the friendship of local priest Father Benedetto and pursues romance with local woman Clara. But by stepping out of the shadows, Jack may be tempting fate.