ROB MARSHALL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 2018. Lucamar Productions, Marc Platt Productions, Walt Disney Pictures. Screen story by David Magee, Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Screenplay by David Magee, based on the Mary Poppins stories by P.L. Travers. Cinematography by Dion Beebe. Produced by John DeLuca, Rob Marshall, Marc Platt. Music by Marc Shaiman. Production Design by John Myhre. Costume … More Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
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. Academy Awards 2018. … More The Favourite (2018)
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB.5. United Kingdom/USA, 2017. Little Punk, See-Saw Films. Screenplay by Philippa Goslett, John Cameron Mitchell, based on the short story by Neil Gaiman. Cinematography by Frank G. DeMarco. Produced by Iain Canning, Howard Gertler, John Cameron Mitchell, Emile Sherman. Music by Nico Muhly, Jamie Stewart. Production Design by Helen Scott. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film … More How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017)
TODD HAYNES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. USA, 2017. Amazon Studios, Cinetic Media, FilmNation Entertainment, Killer Films, Picrow. Screenplay by Brian Selznick, based on his book. Cinematography by Edward Lachman. Produced by Pamela Koffler, John Sloss, Christine Vachon. Music by Carter Burwell. Production Design by Mark Friedberg. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film Editing by Affonso Goncalves. Cannes Film Festival 2017. A little boy (Oakes Fegley) in 1970s … More Wonderstruck (2017)
TODD HAYNES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBBB. United Kingdom/USA, 2015. The Weinstein Company, Film4, Number 9 Films, StudioCanal, HanWay Films, Killer Films, Goldcrest Films International, Dirty Films, Infilm, Larkhard Films. Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy, based on the novel The Price Of Salt by Patricia Highsmith. Cinematography by Edward Lachman. Produced by Elizabeth Karlsen, Tessa Ross, Christine Vachon, Stephen Woolley. Music by … More Carol (2015)
KENNETH BRANAGH Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. Allison Shearmur Productions, Beagle Pug Films, Genre Films, Walt Disney Pictures. USA, 2015. Screenplay by Chris Weitz. Cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos. Produced by David Barron, Simon Kinberg, Allison Shearmur. Music by Patrick Doyle. Production Design by Dante Ferretti. Costume Design by Sandy Powell. Film Editing by Martin Walsh. Academy Awards 2015. If you thought you didn’t need another Cinderella movie, you … More Cinderella (2015)
BB.5 (out of 5) There is such promise in the pairing of Julie Taymor’s ripe visual style with one of Shakespeare’s most wondrous fantasies, and yet this one does not measure up to the power of her adaptation of Titus. Helen Mirren is excellent as the gender-switched Prospera, who rules the rocky outpost she has lived … More The Tempest (2010)
