Featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Martin Scorsese, Christian Bale and Tom Hanks, to name just a few, Spielberg is a new Susan Lacy-directed documentary about the highly respected director Steven Spielberg’s career.
I’ll watch to learn more about Spielberg. I also just want to listen to a bunch of my favourite filmmakers talk about movies.
Spielberg Release Dates: October 7th, 2017 (US)…
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G
California Typewriter is a documentary about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. Featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and more, the film covers the subject of creativity and technology.
I completely understand the tactile pleasure thing, but I find it incredibly hard to believe that the future will be ‘the self-sufficient over the efficient’. I’m going to watch this to find out to what extent this documentary will change my mind, if at all.
California Typewriter Release Dates:
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G
In director James Ponsoldt’s The Circle, Emma Watson is Mae, a young woman excelling in her job at the world’s largest tech and social media company, The Circle.
Things take quite a turn when she’s encouraged by Circle’s founder Eamon Bailey (Tom Hanks) to live her life completely transparently.
The Circle is based on the best-selling book by Dave Eggers, and I really, really want it to be good. Yet, I’m not sure that it will be.
John Boyega, Patton Oswalt, Bill Paxton Karen Gillan and Ellar Coltrane also star.
The Circle Release Dates: April 28th, 2017 (US)…
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G
In new historical thriller Bridge Of Spies, Tom Hanks is American Lawyer James B. Donovan; a man whose job it is to defend an arrested Soviet spy played by Mark Rylance.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, before watching Bridge Of Spies, I had anticipated fighting legal dialogue and courtroom dramatics. In truth, there’s a touch of that but not in the traditional sense. Some of my favourite moments of dialogue happened during the negotiation scenes, plus in the conversations between Donovan and his CIA contact.
In terms of the film’s look and feel, at first it took me a few minutes to get used to the noticeable reduction in colour in reference to the cinematography, however, considering the Cold War setting of Spielberg’s story, I soon understood.
Hanks’s Donovan is very much a hero; one that I adored because he’s determined and focused on what he believes to be the right and reasonable thing to do; a man of conscience, if you will. What’s not to love about that?
Forrest Gump (1993), one of my favourite Tom Hanks movies came to mind upon reflection, because though the characters are quite different, Donovan’s gentle disposition and caring nature took me back to what I loved most about Hanks’s portrayal of Gump.
From the lead actors’ well measured performances to the dialogue and story, I enjoyed Bridge Of Spies. One more key highlight for me is the beautiful ending and all it said so perfectly without words.
Watch it because it’s good.
Happy Film Loving,
G
The subject of Sully is Chesley Sullenberger, the airplane pilot who became a hero after saving 155 passengers.
Directed by Clint Eastwood; Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart and Anna Gunn star.
The combination of Eastwood and Hanks will make this worthwhile.
Hopefully audiences will be organised enough to avoid watching this too close to an airplane trip.
Sully Release Dates: September 9th, 2016 (US); December 1st, 2016 (GER); December 2nd, 2016 (UK)…
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G
The Movie My Life 