Tag: All Is Lost

  • Paul Newman and Robert Redford Nearly Did This Third Film Together

    Paul Newman and Robert Redford Nearly Did This Third Film Together

    Unlike many stars from the New Hollywood era, Robert Redford didn’t peak in the 1960s and ‘70s. While he’s certainly best associated with films like Three Days of the Condor, Jeremiah Johnson, Downhill Racer, and The Candidate, that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t stayed active in the decades that followed. Many of Redford’s greatest roles…

  • ‘Submersible’ Review: A Grimy, Claustrophobic, Deeply Generic Submarine Thriller

    ‘Submersible’ Review: A Grimy, Claustrophobic, Deeply Generic Submarine Thriller

    There are lost-at-sea thrillers that make a virtue of the leanness of their narratives. J.C. Chandor’s “All Is Lost,” Wolfgang Fischer’s “Styx” and Chris Kentis’ legitimately traumatizing “Open Water” (not to mention Alfonso Cuarón’s “Gravity” if we switch in space for ocean) all spun gripping tales of survival — or not — using minimal dialogue…

  • ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Movie Coming from ‘Triple Frontier’ Director J.C. Chandor

    ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Movie Coming from ‘Triple Frontier’ Director J.C. Chandor

    J.C. Chandor, the director of Triple Frontier and All is Lost, is in talks to direct Kraven the Hunter, Sony’s live-action movie centering on the notorious Spider-Man villain from Marvel Comics. The film has been in development for years, and Richard Wenk (The Equalizer) wrote the screenplay. Chandor’s previous filmography makes him an odd choice…

  • Film Review: ‘Triple Frontier’

    Film Review: ‘Triple Frontier’

    J.C. Chandor is a gifted anomaly, a writer-director of reality-oriented drama who, until now, has made just three features: the high-finance meltdown thriller “Margin Call” (2011), the Robert-Redford-stranded-at-sea solo adventure “All Is Lost” (2013), and the good-man-gone-bad business/crime tragedy “A Most Violent Year” (2014). Each Chandor film, to me, has been better than the one…

  • ‘Triple Frontier’ Trailer: J.C. Chandor’s Action Vehicle Stars Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and Charlie Hunnam

    ‘Triple Frontier’ Trailer: J.C. Chandor’s Action Vehicle Stars Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac and Charlie Hunnam

    Director J.C. Chandor has been on somewhat of a subtle meteoric rise since his debut in 2011 with the financial crisis-based “Margin Call.” Seamlessly, he has elevated his cinematic style, using Robert Redford as a one-man show in “All Is Lost” and tackling the criminal landscape in “A Most Violent Year.” While all these films…

  • Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac to Star in J.C. Chandor’s Crime Thriller

    Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac to Star in J.C. Chandor’s Crime Thriller

    Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, Pedro Pascal and Adria Arjona are starring in J.C. Chandor’s crime thriller, the long-in-development project known as “Triple Frontier.”Netflix announced Monday that the currently untitled project begins shooting March 26 in Hawaii. It will also shoot in California and Colombia.The film will be set in South America…

  • Berlin Film Review: ‘Styx’

    Berlin Film Review: ‘Styx’

    There is significant cinematic pleasure in observing someone perform an action at which they’re practiced. Watching a pianist play or a driver change gear or a master thief pick a lock can exert its own fascination, and the camera can identify expertise, in muscle memory and dexterity that cannot be faked. In the first, nearly…