I
Love You Phillip Morris is a 2009 romantic comedy-drama film based on the 1980s
and '90s real-life story of con artist, impostor, and multiple prison escapee
Steven Jay Russell, as played by Jim Carrey. While incarcerated, Russell falls
in love with his fellow inmate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). After Morris is
released from prison, Russell escapes from prison four times in order to be
reunited with Morris. The film was adapted from I Love You Phillip Morris: A
True Story of Life, Love, and Prison Breaks by Steve McVicker. The film is the
directorial debut of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It grossed a little over $20
million worldwide after its limited theatrical release.
John
Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American
novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Irving
achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The
World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider
House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers. Five of his
novels have been adapted to film. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, A
Widow for One Year) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips
Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He won the Academy Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay in 1999 for his script The Cider House Rules.
RocknRolla
is a 2008 British crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, and starring
Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong, Toby Kebbell, Tom Hardy, Idris Elba,
Karel Roden, and Thandie Newton. It was released on 5 September 2008 in the UK,
hitting #1 in the UK box office in its first week of release.
IMDBmark:
7,3/10
Director:
Guy Ritchie
Stars:
Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson and Idris Elba.
Once
Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian epic crime film co-written and
directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. It
chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York
City's world of organized crime. The film explores themes of childhood
friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, broken relationships, and the
rise of mobsters in American society.
Leone
adapted the story from the novel The Hoods, written by Harry Grey, while
filming Once Upon a Time in the West. The film went through various casting
developments and production issues before filming began in 1982.
The
original version by the director was 269 minutes (4 hours and 29 minutes) long,
but when the film premièred out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film
Festival, Leone had cut it down to 229 minutes (3 hours and 49 minutes) to
appease the distributors. This was the version that was to be shown in European
cinemas. However, for the US release on June 1, 1984, Once Upon a Time in
America was edited down even further to 139 minutes (2 hours and 19 minutes) by
the studio and against the director's wishes. In this short version, the
flashback narrative was also changed, by re-editing the scenes in chronological
order. Leone was reportedly heartbroken by the American cut, and never made
another film before his death in 1989.
In
March 2011, it was announced that the original 269 minutes version was to be
re-created by a film lab in Italy under the supervision of Leone's children,
who have acquired the Italian distribution rights, and the film's original
sound editor, Fausto Ancillai, for a premiere in 2012 at either the Cannes Film
Festival or the Venice Film Festival. The new restoration of the film premiered
at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, but due to unforeseen rights issues for the
deleted scenes, the film's new restoration actually ended up being 245 minutes.
However, Martin Scorsese (whose Film Foundation helped with the film's
restoration), stated that he is helping Leone's children get the rights to the
final 24 minutes of deleted scenes to make a complete version of Leone's
original 269 minute version.
IMDB
mark: 8.4/10
Director:
Sergio Leone
Stars:
Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern
La
Haine is a 1995 French black-and-white drama/suspense film written, co-edited,
and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is commonly released under its French
title in the English-speaking world, although its U.S. VHS release was entitled
Hate. It is about three young friends and their struggle to live in the
banlieues of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them,
Hubert: "La haine attire la haine!", "hatred breeds
hatred."
Director:
Mathieu Kassovitz
Stars:
Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui
Snatch
is a 2000 crime film written and directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie,
featuring an ensemble cast. Set in the London criminal underworld, the film
contains two intertwined plots: one dealing with the search for a stolen
diamond, the other with a small-time boxing promoter named Turkish (Jason
Statham) who finds himself under the thumb of a ruthless gangster known as
Brick Top (Alan Ford).
The
film features an assortment of colourful characters, including gypsy Mickey
O'Neil (Brad Pitt), arms-dealer Boris "the Blade" Yurinov (Rade
Šerbedžija), professional thief and gambling addict Frankie
"Four-Fingers" (Benicio del Toro), American gangster-jeweller
"Cousin Avi" (Dennis Farina), and bounty hunter Bullet-Tooth Tony
(Vinnie Jones). It is also distinguished by a kinetic direction and editing
style, a circular plot featuring numerous ironic twists of chance and
causality, and a fast pace.
The
film shares themes, ideas and motifs with Ritchie's first film, Lock, Stock and
Two Smoking Barrels. It is also filmed in the same visual style and features
many of the same actors, including Jones, Statham, and Ford.
IMDB
mark: 8,3/10
Director:
Guy Ritchie
Stars:
Jason Statham, Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro
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