Running the risk of reviewers’ cliché, there is a moment in director Michael Grandage’s Genius that best captures why the film works on a human level: Jude Law’s Thomas Wolfe asks his editor, Colin Firth’s Max Perkins, to allow a final paragraph into his manuscript, despite the protests of the latter that they’ll be stuck editing another…
Tag: Spectre
The First Director of the Rest of our Blogweek: Sam Mendes
Director Sam Mendes, often spoken of in the same breath as his 1999 Best Picture, Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Director-winning film, American Beauty, and the James Bond revitalisation (not reboot), Skyfall, originally started work in theatre, following higher education at Cambridge University. Director Mendes is also known for his work with composer Thomas Newman (“Finding Nemo“, “The Shawshank Redemption“), who…
The Cinemorph 