Sarah Polley gives a mesmerizing performance as a young woman whose silence is her protection from terrors she’s seen.
Tag: Screenplay
Triage – Day Thirty Seven – #40movies40days
Injured and traumatized war photographer, Mark (Colin Farrell), returns home from a photo assignment in Kurdistan. He returns alone. He professes to have been separated from his best friend Colin. Unravelling the mystery of what happened is key to his recovery.
Frida – Day Thirty Five – #40movies40days
Julie Taymor does a wonderful job mixing the surrealism of Frida’s paintings with the story of her life. The film almost makes you feel like you are inhabiting Frida’s work.
City of Joy – Day Thirty Four – #40movies40days
The ability to find joy in even the most dire situations and circumstance is at the heart of this story
Hot Tub Time Machine – Day Thirty Three – #40movies40days
Hut Tub Time Machine is a raunchy but ultimately sweet tale of friendship, past regrets, second chances and how our past can haunt us.
Saint Ralph – Day Thirty Two – #40movies40days
Saint Ralph is a slight Canadian film, but highly enjoyable. It’s whimsical, funny and features fine performances.
Dog Day Afternoon – Day Thirty One – #40movies40days
Today Dog Day Afternoon is an unabashed classic, a template by which other movies are based and a formula which is periodically tweaked and refined.
Foreign Correspondent – Day Thirty – #40movies40days
Foreign Correspondent, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is a great complement to The Quiet American. Again, two men fighting for different sides are caught in a triangle over a girl.
Monsters Inc. – Day Twenty Nine – #40movies40days
This wonderful Pixar movie made me wonder what in my life is powered by fear? It made me wonder what would happen if I turned off that switch and changed tactics, like Monsters Inc.
The Quiet American – Day Twenty Eight – #40movies40days
The Quiet American is a wonderful 2002 film starring Michael Caine (Power of Idealism) as a jaded newspaper reporter who moves from being an observer, passionately in love with a young Vietnamese girl, to a direct participant in the tangled politics of her country.