Showing posts with label Cate Blanchett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cate Blanchett. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Carol (2015)


"Some people change your life forever"


Directed by Todd Haynes
Produced by Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Christine Vachon
Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
Based on "The Price of Salt" by Patricia Highsmith
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler
Music by Carter Burwell
Cinematography: Edward Lachman
Edited by Affonso Gonçalves
Production companies: Number 9 Films, Film4 Productions, Killer Films
Distributed by The Weinstein Company, StudioCanal
Release date: 20 November 2015 (United States)
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Budget: $11.8 million
Box office: $11.4 million



"Carol" is a romantic drama film directed by Todd Haynes and written by Phyllis Nagy, based on the novel "The Price of Salt"by Patricia Highsmith. The film tells the story of a young aspiring photographer and her relationship with an older woman going through a difficult divorce.

Monday, May 11, 2015

The Aviator (2004)


"For some men, the sky was the limit. For him, it was just the beginning."


Directed by Martin Scorsese
Produced by Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, Charles Evans, Jr.
Screenplay by John Logan
Based on "Howard Hughes: The Secret Life" by Charles Higham
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law
Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Edited by Thelma Schoonmaker
Production companies: Forward Pass, Appian Way, Miramax Films, Intermedia, Initial Entertainment Group, Cappa Productions
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 25 December 2004 (Canada)
Running time: 170 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $110 million
Box office: $213.7 million

"The Aviator" is a biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the non-fiction book "Howard Hughes: The Secret Life" by Charles Higham. The story is about the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of Hell's Angels, which is depicting the early years of his career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)


"I was born under unusual circumstances".


Directed by David Fincher
Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin
Screenplay by Eric Roth
Story by Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
Based on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starring: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, Tilda Swinton
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography: Claudio Miranda
Edited by Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
Production company: The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: 25 December 2008 (Fiji)
Running time: 166 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $150 million
Box office: $333.9 million

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a romantic fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher and based on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story is about Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Blue Jasmine (2013)



Directed by Woody Allen
Produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, Edward Walson
Written by Woody Allen
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg
Cinematography: Javier Aguirresarobe
Edited by Alisa Lepselter
Production companies: Gravier Productions, Perdido Productions
Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics
Release date: 1 August 2013 (Czech Republic)
Running time: 99 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $18 million
Box office: $97.5 million

"Blue Jasmine" is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It tells the story of a rich Manhattan socialite who falls into hard times and has to move in to her sister's apartment in San Francisco.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Cinderella (2015)


"Midnight is just the beginning."


Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Produced by Simon Kinberg, David Barron, Allison Shearmur
Screenplay by Chris Weitz
Based on Disney's "Cinderella", "Cendrillon" by Charles Perrault
Starring: Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Stellan Skarsgård, Holliday Grainger, Derek Jacobi, Ben Chaplin, Sophie McShera, Hayley Atwell, Helena Bonham Carter
Music by Patrick Doyle
Cinematography: Haris Zambarloukos
Edited by Martin Walsh
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, RKO Pictures
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios, Motion Pictures
Release date: 6 March 2015 (Russia)
Running time: 113 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Budget: $95 million
Box office: $542.7 million


"Cinderella" is a romantic fantasy film directed by Kenneth Branagh and inspired by the fairy tale "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault (with some references from the Brothers Grimm's version of the story). It tells the story of Ella who suffers from her cruel stepmother and her stepsisters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a charming stranger.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Hanna (2011)


"Adapt or Die"


Directed by Joe Wright
Produced by Leslie Holleran, Marty Adelstein, Scott Nemes
Screenplay by Seth Lochhead, David Farr
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng, Cate Blanchett
Music by The Chemical Brothers
Cinematography: Alwin H. Küchler
Edited by Paul Tothill
Production company: Holleran Company, Studio Babelsberg
Distributed by Focus Features
Release date: 8 April 2011 (United States)
Running time: 111 minutes
Country: Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Budget: $30,000,000
Box office: $63,782,078

"Hanna" is an action adventure thriller film directed by Joe Wright. It tells the story of Hanna Heller, a 15-year-old girl who lives with her father, Erik Heller in rural northern Finland. Since the age of two, he has trained her to be a skilled assassin. Erik teaches her hand-to-hand combat and drills her in target shooting. Hanna reads a bloodstained Grimms' Fairy Tales book frequently, has a great deal of encyclopedic knowledge, and is fluent in several languages. Due to her training away from civilization, she has never come into contact with modern technology or culture. As for Erik, he's an ex-CIA operative from Germany. He left the agency, going incognito into the Arctic. Erik knows a secret that cannot become public, and is being sought after by Marissa Wiegler, a senior CIA officer, who wants to eliminate him. So Erik has trained Hanna with the intent that she will kill Marissa. And one night, Hanna tells Erik that she is "ready".