Michael's Movies: Movies

2022-11-07 White Material (2010) imdb.com

Director: Claire Denis
Synopsis: Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
Cast: Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, Christopher Lambert as André Vial, Nicolas Duvauchelle as Manuel Vial, Michel Subor as Henri Vial, le propriétaire, Isaach De Bankolé as Le Boxeur, William Nadylam as Chérif, le maire
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Film
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deepfocusreview.com
filmdaze.net
mubi.com

Listening to the radio	Maria

Maria, André	Henri, André	Maria, Manuel	Manuel, André	Manuel

	Chérif	Rebel DJ	Le Boxeur	Government soldiers

Maria, armed local	Child rebel soldier	Manuel joins rebels	Soldiers take plantation

2021-02-27 Fair Game (2010) imdb.com

Director: Doug Liman
Synopsis: CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Cast: Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame, Sean Penn as Joseph Wilson, David Andrews as Scooter Libby, Adam LeFevre as Karl Rove, Liraz Charhi as Dr. Zahara, Khaled El Nabawy as Hamed
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Film
Valerie Plame
Joseph Wilson
rogerebert.com
nytimes.com
theplaylist.net

Valerie Plame	Plame, Wilson	At work	In the ME

Joseph Wilson		Hamed, Dr. Zahara	Karl Rove, Scooter Libby

2016-09-09 I am love (2010) imdb.com

Director: Luca Guadagnino
Synopsis: This lavish, sprawling drama from filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has drawn numerous comparisons to the films of Luchino Visconti for the grace with which it plumbs the inner workings of the Italian upper crust. Edoardo Recchi Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti) is the aging patriarch of a Milanese clan that has amassed a significant fortune over the years through shrewd investments in the textile business. Edoardo Sr. has a beautiful wife, Allegra (Marisa Berenson), and the two have a reliable and dependable son, Tancredi (Pippo Delbono). Years ago, Tancredi met, fell in love with, and then married a woman named Emma (Tilda Swinton) amid a trip to Russia, and brought her back home to Milan; their children include sons Edoardo Jr. (Flavio Parenti) and Gianluca (Mattia Zaccaro), and artist daughter Elisabetta (Alba Rohrwacher). The family gathers for a reunion at Edoardo Sr. and Allegra's villa in Milan, but the happy gathering takes a somber turn when Edoardo suddenly dies not long after having lunch with his family. But the death is far from the only pivotal event that occurs that day: Edoardo Jr. also introduces his mother to a chef, Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), with whom he plans to open a restaurant, and Emma finds herself drawn to the culinary artist. Meanwhile, Emma learns that Elisabetta is a lesbian, and though initially startled by this news, she takes the liberation of her daughter as inspiration for her own liberation from confining nuptials. On impulse, Emma travels to San Remo, catches sight of Antonio, and finds herself helplessly drawn to him. Meanwhile, as Emma and Elisabetta undertake their life-changing journeys, all of the men in the Recchi clan outside of Edoardo Jr. feel bound to profit-driven motives -- the commercialism of a class that has long ago shucked responsibility for its workers. This critically acclaimed film constituted Swinton's second collaboration with Guadagnino; they first worked together on the 1999 feature The Protagonists.
Cast: Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi, Flavio Parenti as Edoardo Recchi Jr., Edoardo Gabbriellini as Antonio Biscaglia, Alba Rohrwacher as Betta Recchi, Pippo Delbono as Tancredi Recchi
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rottentomatoes.com
Rick Groen
James Berardinelli
Ann Hornaday
Anthony Lane
Dana Stevens
Roger Ebert

Emma Recchi	Emma, her son Edo	Emma, her daughter Betta	Emma, Antonio		Tancredi Recchi, Emma at Edo's funeral

2011-09-30 Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010) imdb.com

José Padilha
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Fred Thom
Neil Miller
anomalousmaterial.com
youtube.com
Picture gallery
Wagner Moura as Lt. Colonel Nascimento, Irandhir Santos as Diogo Fraga, André Ramiro as Captain André Matias

Colonel Nascimento	Fraga negotiating in prison	Fraga, wife	With corrupt officer	Captain André Matias investigates the drug dealer

2011-04-13 The Lost Thing (2010) imdb.com

Andrew Ruhemann, Shaun Tan
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Wiki. Shawn Tan
Rutube

2011-03-26 Certified Copy (2010) imdb.com

Abbas Kiarostami
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R.Ebert
sfgate.com

Juliette Binoche as Elle, William Shimell as James Miller

2011-01-27 The King's Speech (2010) imdb.com

Tom Hooper
R.Ebert
Amy Biancolli
Christopher Hitchens. Churchill Didn't Say That
Colin Firth as George VI, Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth, Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue

2011-01-09 Somewhere (2010) imdb.com

Sofia Coppola
R.Ebert
salon.com
Stephen Dorff as Johnny Marco, Elle Fanning as Cleo

2010-12-05 Tiny Furniture (2010) imdb.com

Lena Dunham
filmmakermagazine.com
salon.com
NYT. David Carr
NYT. MANOHLA DARGIS
Lena Dunham as Aura, Laurie Simmons as Mom, Jemima Kirke as Charlotte, David Call as Keith