Film (2013)
Directed by Nick Ryan
Screenplay by Mark Monroe
A partially dramatized documentary about the tragic loss of life in the Himalayas on K2, the second tallest mountain in the world, in August, 2008.
Movies
Gravity
Film (2013)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
With Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
A white-knuckle film about problems in space and the will and ingenuity to overcome them.
Captain Phillips
Film (2013)
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Screenplay by Billy Ray
With Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi
A suspenseful dramatization of the 2009 kidnapping of Richard Phillips, a captain of a civilian container ship, by Somali pirates off the coast of East Africa.
We Are What We Are
Film (2013)
Directed by Jim Mickle
A horror-suspense film in a somewhat different mode – darkly restrained, then plenty grisly – about a family with odd and extreme practices carried out and handed on with religious fervor.
Interview with Jim Mickle
Interview
I recently met with Jim Mickle, director and co-author of the soon to be released We Are What We Are, a horror film with some interesting touches.
We Are What We Are is slated to open this Friday, October 11th at Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge.