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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, whose Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths is Mexico’s submission for the international feature Oscar this year, is an Academy favorite: His films have been nominated for 33 Oscars, with eight wins, and he has been nominated seven times and won four, including for picture, director and original screenplay for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), and director for The Revenant. But when the writer-director made his first feature, Amores Perros, he was largely unknown — and the film’s nomination for best foreign-language film came as a surprise.
Starring Emilio Echevarría, Goya Toledo and Gael García Bernal as disparate characters whose lives intersect unexpectedly, Perros was deemed “long and excruciatingly violent” by THR critic David Hunter, who noted it “perhaps too cleverly centers on a horrible car wreck that opens the film and is replayed several times.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, whose Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths is Mexico’s submission for the international feature Oscar this year, is an Academy favorite: His films have been nominated for 33 Oscars, with eight wins, and he has been nominated seven times and won four, including for picture, director and original screenplay for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), and director for The Revenant. But when the writer-director made his first feature, Amores Perros, he was largely unknown — and the film’s nomination for best foreign-language film came as a surprise.
Starring Emilio Echevarría, Goya Toledo and Gael García Bernal as disparate characters whose lives intersect unexpectedly, Perros was deemed “long and excruciatingly violent” by THR critic David Hunter, who noted it “perhaps too cleverly centers on a horrible car wreck that opens the film and is replayed several times.
- 11/17/2022
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Billy Bob Thornton has returned to TV with the premiere of the second season of “Goliath,” the Amazon Studio’s legal series, for which Thornton won the Golden Globe as Best TV Drama Actor. As Billy McBride, a dishonored lawyer who has a grudge against his old law firm and gets his vengeance against them in Season 1, he now seeks exoneration for the son of a friend (Lou Diamond Phillips) who is being set up on a murder charge.
Although Thornton’s television work has been limited, he is no stranger to TV awards, having won another Golden Globe for his work in FX’s limited series “Fargo,” as well as an Emmy nom and a nomination from the Screen Actors Guild.
Still, his great fame has been his work in films, having won an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1996’s “Sling Blade,” as well as Oscar nominations for...
Although Thornton’s television work has been limited, he is no stranger to TV awards, having won another Golden Globe for his work in FX’s limited series “Fargo,” as well as an Emmy nom and a nomination from the Screen Actors Guild.
Still, his great fame has been his work in films, having won an Academy Award for his screenplay for 1996’s “Sling Blade,” as well as Oscar nominations for...
- 6/23/2018
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Most filmmakers spend the duration of a career emphasizing one walk of life over the infinite others, but occasionally there is an artist who seeks the truth through universality: the common thread that unifies a Mexican intersection, a Moroccan village, or an American theatre into a snapshot of what it truly means to be alive. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is one such artist, pursuing the crevices of the human soul for nearly twenty years, and doggedly striving to capture fear, hope, and mortality on the silver screen. Some label it pessimistic cinema, but in the words of Iñárritu idol Oscar Wilde, “A pessimist is nothing but a well informed optimist.”
Starting his own production company in the 1990s, the Mexico City native would spend much of the decade churning out advertisements and short films – many of which, including Detras del Dinero (1995) and El Timbre (1996), provided glimpses of the director’s penchant for humanized drama.
Starting his own production company in the 1990s, the Mexico City native would spend much of the decade churning out advertisements and short films – many of which, including Detras del Dinero (1995) and El Timbre (1996), provided glimpses of the director’s penchant for humanized drama.
- 1/6/2016
- by Danilo Castro
- CinemaNerdz
A bold attempt to retell the story of the battle of the Alamo is let down by the unrelieved gloom and the ponderous pace
The Alamo (2004)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: B+
In 1836, Mexican forces took the Alamo mission, near what is now San Antonio, Texas, from a small band of Texian defenders. (Texians were American settlers in Texas. They did not start to be called Texans until after the state's declaration of independence later that year.)
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Washed-up alcoholic Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) is selling investment in Texas. Washed-up politician David "Davy" Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), rejected by the electors of Tennessee, is interested. "I told them: 'You can go to hell. I'm going to Texas'," he says defiantly. They're joined by washed-up knife-fighter and committed slave-owner Jim Bowie (Jason Patric), who is ailing with tuberculosis, and washed-up lawyer William Travis (Patrick Wilson), who cruelly abandons his family.
The Alamo (2004)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Entertainment grade: C–
History grade: B+
In 1836, Mexican forces took the Alamo mission, near what is now San Antonio, Texas, from a small band of Texian defenders. (Texians were American settlers in Texas. They did not start to be called Texans until after the state's declaration of independence later that year.)
People
Washed-up alcoholic Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid) is selling investment in Texas. Washed-up politician David "Davy" Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), rejected by the electors of Tennessee, is interested. "I told them: 'You can go to hell. I'm going to Texas'," he says defiantly. They're joined by washed-up knife-fighter and committed slave-owner Jim Bowie (Jason Patric), who is ailing with tuberculosis, and washed-up lawyer William Travis (Patrick Wilson), who cruelly abandons his family.
- 11/8/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
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