Movies Directed By Michael Winterbottom
Genova
Dante Ciari, Gherardo Crucitti, Colin Firth, Alessandro Giuggioli, Demetri Goritsas, Kyle Griffin, Kerry Shale, Trevor White, Gary Wilmes, Monica Bennati, Hope Davis, Perla Haney-Jardine, Willa Holland, Catherine Keener, Margherita Romeo
DIRECTOR:A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
A Mighty Heart
It was an event that shocked the world. This is the story you haven't heard.
Angelina Jolie, Azfar Ali, San Banarje, Harvasp Chiniwala, Zachary Coffin, Dan Futterman, Jacob Gaffney, Demetri Goritsas, Sajid Hasan, Aly Khan, Irfan Khan, Lala Sloatman, Mikail Lotia, Denis O'Hare, Will Patton
DIRECTOR:On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanimo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined.
9 Songs
2 Lovers. 1 Year.
Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Guto Pryce, Franz Ferdinand
DIRECTOR:Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall—London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
Code 46
How do you solve a crime when the last thing you want to know is the truth?
Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Togo Igawa, Nabil Elouhabi, Sarah Backhouse, Jonathan Ibbotson, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Om Puri, Emil Marwa, Nina Fog, Bruno Lastra, Christopher Simpson, Lien Nguyin, David Fahm, Mick Jones
DIRECTOR:Code 46 is a love story set in a Brave New World-type near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papelles," a special travel permit issued by the totalitarianistic government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens - people without papelles forced to live primitive lives. William is a family man who works as a government investigator. When he is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his papelles: 24 hours. Back home, William is obessed with the memory of Maria. When the original investigation is inevitably re-opened a week later and William is sent back to finish the work he started, he tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of a Code 46 violation and any further relationship is impossible.
