This week, let’s get angry – but not in the way the movie wants – with Robert Redford’s 2007 political drama Lions For Lambs! Does Redford have a directorial style? Is there depth and nuance to the arguments made in the film? Is Andrew Garfield cuter than Michael Peña?
Content warning: gun violence, military violence, death
Unanswered Questions:
- Does the movie have anything to say about hypocrisy?
- Should the structure of the movie be more emphatic, or less?
- Is the film’s treatment of race conscious and satirical, or not?
Further reading:
- Pete’s Dragon (2016)
- Barefoot In The Park
- The Dish
- The Piano
- Isaac And Ishmael (The West Wing)
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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