Movies

Film (2014)
Directed by Morten Tyldum
With Benedict Cumberbatch,
Keira Knightley
A very well done, though dramatically liberalized, account of Alan Turing and the Enigma Project – which sought to decode Nazi communications during the Second World War – and the associated emergence of Turing’s invention, the first modern computer.

Film (2014)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Based on the memoir
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012)
by Cheryl Strayed
With Reese Witherspoon,
Laura Dern
A film based on Cheryl Strayed’s memoir about hiking the 1100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo in 1995.

Film (2014)
Directed by James Marsh
Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
Based on the memoir
Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen
by Jane Hawking
With Eddie Redmayne and
Felicity Jones
A beautifully acted, but somewhat romanticized, biopic about Stephen Hawking, the world-famous British cosmologist who has suffered from ALS for the past fifty years.

Film (2014)
Directed by Paola di Florio,
Lisa Leeman
Apple Cinemas, Fresh Pond, Cambridge
A documentary about the life of the influential Indian yogi who came to the United States in the first part of the twentieth century and who wrote what was then, and still is, a highly popular autobiography.

Film (2014)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
With Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Michael Caine, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Bill Irwin
A very long space epic about the decline of civilization on the earth and a mission to explore new places to inhabit.