Posts Tagged ‘Sam Mendes’

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    Away We Go: Finding truth in facades??
    A very simple take on Away we go would be that it is a testament of Sam Mendes’s love for dysfunctional families. And in fact this take wouldn’t at all be entirely incorrect. American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and now Away We Go. He loves American dystopia. Away We Go actually is a nice romantic indie with some genuine laughs and smiles. Only if this film had aspired...
    by Gaurang at September 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am
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    Revolutionary Road: To Paris and Beyond
    Revulutionary Road is the story of the Wheeler couple, Frank and April (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet), living in a Connecticut suburb during the 1950’s. Sam Mendes’ film based on Richard Yates cult, eponymous book, however, is also a story that goes beyond the specifications of time and place to unravel the disappointment and disillusionment of an entire...
    by Padmaja Thakore at March 15th, 2009 at 03:03 am
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    Revolutionary Road – A Life of Quiet Desperation
    “Can you believe it? We just ended up being like everybody else?!” John Givings: Hopeless emptiness. Now you’ve said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. Some films relish in the aftertaste of the moments not captured in their entirety, unsettling yet no good reason to be so, poised and in-their-moment...
    by Tushar at March 7th, 2009 at 02:03 pm
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    American Beauty
    Intense, intelligent, funny, touching, erotic, beautiful. IMDB
    by Jahan Bakshi at December 2nd, 2008 at 08:12 pm
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    Musings on Life and Love : American Beauty
    iView Author: Aditya Mani Jha (West Bengal, India) Email: amj91288 [at] gmail [dot] com ———————————————————– Musings on Life and Love : “American Beauty” ———————————————————– In...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 9th, 2008 at 04:10 am
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    Road To Perdition: A Modern Classic
    iView Author: Aditya Mani Jha (Kharagpur, West Bengal) Email: amj91288 [at] gmail [dot] com Road To Perdition: A Modern Classic “Road To Perdition” is perhaps one of the most under-rated films of recent times. This 2002 film, directed by Sam Mendes(of American Beauty fame), was appreciated for its performances(though not nearly enough) but criticised...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 12th, 2008 at 12:07 am
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