When you find someone you tend to work with exceedingly well in a job or any other walk of life, chances are you'll try to stick with each other moving forward as much as humanly possible. Filmmakers and actors are no different. Call it a good luck charm, an artist/muse dynamic, or just plain familiarity, but some of the biggest names in the industry seem to lean towards being creatures of habit. Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan ... the list goes on. But when it comes to one of the more underrated collaborations from the last several years, Christopher Nolan and actor Cillian Murphy's work together comes down to a single, all-important factor: Trust.
From "The Dark Knight" trilogy to "Inception" to "Dunkirk," it's been clear that the two always seem to bring out the best in each other.
From "The Dark Knight" trilogy to "Inception" to "Dunkirk," it's been clear that the two always seem to bring out the best in each other.
- 5/14/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
This is probably an odd thing to say, but whenever watching a modern potboiler I find myself asking, “What would Bertrand Tavernier think?” The kind of French cineaste that found themselves most at home in the company of the disposable American crime film, the esteemed director could wax poetic on the most disreputable of pictures. If you squint during Hypnotic––a collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Ben Affleck that’s likely been cooking since they first met at a 1997 Miramax holiday party––you can see faint traces of a classic noir like Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool, or something of such ilk.
Though pitched as somewhat of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, this is a throwback of another stripe: to 2010, not 1948. Stripped of the comfortable Hollywood budget that would’ve greeted that pairing during their respective heydays, this initially seems like the pilot for a slightly more high-concept detective show before accounting...
Though pitched as somewhat of a Christopher Nolan-like mind-bender, this is a throwback of another stripe: to 2010, not 1948. Stripped of the comfortable Hollywood budget that would’ve greeted that pairing during their respective heydays, this initially seems like the pilot for a slightly more high-concept detective show before accounting...
- 5/12/2023
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
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