YORGOS LANTHIMOS Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. Ireland/United Kingdom/USA, 2018. Element Pictures, Scarlet Films, Film4, Waypoint Entertainment. Screenplay by Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday. Music by William Lyons, Johnnie Burn. Production Design by Fiona Crombie. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film Editing by Yorgos Mavropsaridis. Golden Globe Awards 2018….
Tag: Robbie Ryan
The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) (2017)
NOAH BAUMBACH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB. USA, 2017. Gilded Halfwing, IAC Films, Netflix. Screenplay by Noah Baumbach. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Noah Baumbach, Eli Bush, Scott Rudin, Lila Yacoub. Music by Randy Newman. Production Design by Gerald Sullivan. Costume Design by Joseph G. Aulisi. Film Editing by Jennifer Lame. Cannes Film Festival 2017. Gotham Awards 2017 Comedic drama that provides something of…
Jimmy’s Hall (2014)
KEN LOACH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. United Kingdom/Ireland/France, 2014. Sixteen Films, Element Pictures, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, British Film Institute, Film4, Irish Film Board. Screenplay by Paul Laverty, based on the play by Donal O’Kelly. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Rebecca O’Brien. Music by George Fenton. Production Design by Fergus Clegg. Costume Design by Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh. Film Editing by Jonathan…
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
KEN LOACH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. United Kingdom/France/Belgium, 2016. Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, British Film Institute, BBC Films, Les Films Du Fleuve, France 2 Cinema, Canal+, France Televisions, Le Pacte, Cineart, Cine+, VOO, BeTV. Screenplay by Paul Laverty. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Rebecca O’Brien. Music by George Fenton. Production Design by Fergus Clegg, Linda Wilson. Costume Design by Jo…
American Honey
BBB (out of 5) Andrea Arnold ventures across the ocean for her first exploration of American culture, her focus on the less privileged keeping in line with her previous films about under-served British citizens (Fish Tank) and those enduring the grimy bleakness of working-class Glasgow (Red Road…I don’t want to talk about Wuthering Heights). Charismatic newcomer Sasha Lane plays an eighteen…
The Angels’ Share (2012)
KEN LOACH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.5. United Kingdom/France/Belgium/Italy, 2012. Entertainment One, Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, British Film Institute, Les Films Du Fleuve, Urania Pictures S.r.l.. Screenplay by Paul Laverty. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Rebecca O’Brien. Music by George Fenton. Production Design by Fergus Clegg. Costume Design by Carole K. Millar. Film Editing by Jonathan Morris. Cannes Film Festival 2012. A…
Slow West
BBB (out of 5) A young Scotsman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) shows up in the American west, a land that in the nineteenth century is still made up of wide, open frontiers and very little civilized law. His purpose is to find the homestead of his beloved lass and her father who immigrated there before him, but along…
Philomena (2013)
STEPHEN FREARS Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.5. United Kingdom/USA/France, 2013. The Weinstein Company, Yucaipa Films, Pathe, BBC Films, British Film Institute, Canal+, Cine+, Baby Cow Productions, Magnolia Mae Films, Baby Cow Films. Screenplay by Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope, based on the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee by Martin Sixsmith. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Steve Coogan, Tracey…
Wuthering Heights (2011)
BB.5 (out of 5) A withering experience. Andrea Arnold follows two brilliant explorations of modern day life in England and Scotland with a dour, unlikable adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic novel of love and inheritance in nineteenth-century Yorkshire. Heathcliff is a young gypsy boy rescued in the spirit of Christian charity by a man and…
Fish Tank
BBBB (out of 5) Andrea Arnold follows up her phenomenal film Red Road with another solid drama about a woman in emotional flux. This time she sets her sights at Mia (Katie Jarvis), a teenager coming of age under pretty harsh conditions: her single mother, who seems to have had both of her daughters well before…
Red Road
BBBB.5 (out of 5) Jackie (Kate Dickie) works as an operator of a closed-circuit monitor that oversees a rough Glasgow street, informing police authorities whenever she sees a crime being committed. One evening on a routine shift, she sees the face of the man responsible for having destroyed her family years earlier. He has been…
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
SALLY POTTER Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB. United Kingdom/Denmark/ Canada/Croatia, 2012. Adventure Pictures, BBC Films, British Film Institute, Det Danske Filminstitut, Media House Capital, Miso Film, Miso Films. Screenplay by Sally Potter. Cinematography by Robbie Ryan. Produced by Andrew Litvin, Christopher Sheppard. Production Design by Carlos Conti. Costume Design by Holly Waddington. Film Editing by Anders Refn. Toronto International Film Festival 2012. Sally Potter returns…
