Rounding up the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, as voted on by hundreds of film executives, The Black List has been a strong resource to clue one in on projects to potentially anticipate, but first, to kickstart Hollywood on bringing them to screen. Last year’s chart-topper Catherine the Great is still waiting to be produced and today we have this year’s editiong
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
Topping the 2015 edition, we have Isaac Adamson‘s Bubbles, which tells the story of Michael Jackson through the strange perspective of his adopted baby chimp. Also included is the Boston Marathon bombing drama Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal was circling, and Miss Sloane, which has Jessica Chastain attached. So, as an early look for some potential upcoming films to keep on your radar, take a looked at the full, detailing list below, along with the number of votes each earned.
Bubbles by Isaac Adamson 44
A baby chimp...
- 12/15/2015
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
In Rory Kennedy’s spectacularly moving documentary Last Days in Vietnam we see how, in late April, 1975, when the North Vietnamese made their swift and inexorable descent on the south, there was no organized plan for the evacuation of Saigon—of Americans or their South Vietnamese allies. It was the ultimate betrayal.We also hear how many Americans improvised furiously on that last terrible day — heroes, people who embodied our country’s noblest values and still writhe with guilt over the Vietnamese whom they were not able to evacuate. Finally, astonishingly, we see how one man, the U.S. ambassador Graham Martin, represented the worst and best of the Vietnam debacle. He was both a tragic fool and a brave and resolute leader. He was … is … impossible to hate — unlike, say, the unindicted war criminal Henry Kissinger, who’s on hand to deliver his standard lugubrious drivel on the subject...
- 9/5/2014
- by David Edelstein
- Vulture
It seems that whenever a political documentary on a controversial period in modern American history occurs, Henry Kissinger is there to talk it up. He takes centre-stage with former marines and South Vietnamese personnel to unpick one of the great war-time evacuations: Saigon, 1975. Director Rory Kennedy has stockpiled some utterly remarkable footage of South Vietnam and the descending North Vietnamese Army in this, at times, astonishing retelling of the city’s famous exodus.
Of course, as with most documentaries dealing with how America yet again saved the day, it fails to truly focus on the fact that the Us threw itself into the conflict in the first place. Meanwhile, the over-reliance on talking heads, rousing music and a ploddingly linear structure disturb and chop up the material, but the film’s shortcomings are often outweighed by the extraordinary recordings.
Us-history lovers will be aware of the four evacuation options (parodied...
Of course, as with most documentaries dealing with how America yet again saved the day, it fails to truly focus on the fact that the Us threw itself into the conflict in the first place. Meanwhile, the over-reliance on talking heads, rousing music and a ploddingly linear structure disturb and chop up the material, but the film’s shortcomings are often outweighed by the extraordinary recordings.
Us-history lovers will be aware of the four evacuation options (parodied...
- 6/9/2014
- by Andrew Latimer
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In the middle of the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon, there was an enormous tamarind tree growing out of a patch of grass in the parking lot. Graham Martin, the ambassador to South Vietnam in the mid-1970s, described the magnificent tree as being “as steadfast as the American commitment to Vietnam.” In April of 1975, as the North Vietnamese army closed in on the struggling city from all sides, the Americans in Saigon cut the tree down. "Last Days in Vietnam," a documentary by Rory Kennedy (whose documentary “Ethel” premiered at Sundance in 2012) chronicles events from the end of April 1975, two years after the Paris Peace Accords. In that agreement, which supposedly ended the Vietnam War, the United States promised to provide assistance to the South Vietnamese (in the form of both supplies and military aid) should the North Vietnamese resume their offensive. When that finally did happen in...
- 1/18/2014
- by Mary Sollosi
- Indiewire
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