Film Review #3

  

Argo is a 2012 historical drama thriller film directed by Ben Affleck. This dramatization is adapted from the book The Master of Disguise by CIA operative Tony Mendez, and Joshuah Berman's 2007 Wired article "The Great Escape" about the "Canadian Caper",in which Mendez led the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran, during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

    Cast:

Ben Affleck - Tony Mendez

Bryan Cranston - Jack O'Donnell

Alan Arkin - Lester Siegel

John Goodman - John Chambers

Taylor Schilling - Christine Mendez

Victor Garber - Ken Taylor

Tate Donovan - Bob Anders

Clea Duvall - Cora Lijek

Scoot McNairy - Joe Stafford

Rory Cochrane - Lee Schatz

Christopher Denham - Mark Lijek

Kerry Bishe - Kathy Stafford

Kyle Chandler - Hamilton Jordan

Chris Messina - Malinov

Zeljko Ivanek - Robert Pender

Ben Affleck - Director, Producer

Synopsis:   

The film shows the real life of the Iranian people during the revolution, when dozens of Americans were held captive in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.  Only six embassy workers escaped the building and had to seek refuge in the Canadian ambassadors home. The U.S. and the CIA began developing ideas for how to extricate those six individuals. Tony Mendez would put together a fake Hollywood production, a "science fantasy" in the style of Star Wars, and represented the six Americans as his Canadian team for creating the film.

Review:

  No doubt, Ben Affleck is the best director and his film “Argo” has rightfully earned the highest award.  On the one hand it is captivating, expertly machined political thriller,on the other hand it’s a and an ingeniously written drama that reveals the unknown historic events. And at the same time, the film contains a lot of funny moments. It is impossible to ignore this film! It's a cinematic feast, exciting and tense action drama!

  I can’t but admire the main character of the film, who ran risks in order to save people from a cruel death. He was brave, determined, and witty. Together with him I sympathized with these people, who were tired to live in foreign country in constant fear. It was impossible for Mendez to stay them even when the government decided not to risk the reputation of the USA and sacrificed them. Tony was confident in the success of the operation and he made others to believe.

   The film keeps the viewer in suspense, it made me cry, when at the end, I saw happy faces of the liberated people, who was sure in their successful future. To my mind this film is very patriotic for American people. It shows that in difficult situations Americans join their efforts to overcome all obstacles and to save their citizens.

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   The article under consideration is headlined "Downton Abbey's Lily James cast as Disney's Cinderella".It is published on the website of the newspaper 'The Guardian"on May1,2013.The author of of the article is Ben Child.In the current article the author told about the actress Lily James, who has signed on to play Cinderella in Kenneth Branagh's forthcoming reimagining of the classic fairytale.
  The author underlines that Lily James stars as Lady Rose MacClare in the popular ITV period drama Downton Abbey.And now she takes lead in the Kenneth Branagh-directed live-action version of the fairytale.
   The article reports that the film is the latest in a series of live action Disney fantasies which began in 2010 with the enormous box office success of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland and continued earlier this year with Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful.
  The author stresses that screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna of The Devil Wears Prada fame has written an initial draft of the script.There is no word on whether the roles of the ugly sisters and Prince Charming have yet been cast. Lisa in the Noel Clarke-directed athletics drama "Fast Girls" stars alongside Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother in Cinderella.
  The article reports that Harry Potter's Emma Watson was at one point in talks to play Cinderella, but a deal was never done.
  The author told that "Oz the Great and Powerful" is the year's highest-grossing film so far, with more than $480m at the global box office. Disney is currently shooting Maleficent, a revisionist live-action take on the story of Sleeping Beauty with Angelina Jolie in the title role, for a 2014 release date.
  As for me,I would like to watch the new fairytale about Cinderella.I watched  "Oz the Great and Powerful"and frankly speaking,I am deeply impressed.It is a kind and lovely movie!

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     The article under consideration is headlined  "Reality and Fantasy: Desire Blurs the Line".It is published on the website of the newspaper "The New York Times" on April 18,2013.The author of of the article is Scott O.A.In the current article the author told about the new movie of François Ozon.The name of the film is “In the House.”
     The author describes the main character Germain,who is a high school teacher.He attends a Woody Allen movie with his wife, Jeanne, a gallerist played by Kristin Scott Thomas. Though the movie is clear enough that Germain might be one of his lost alter egos, a character ensnared by his own desires and a willful inability to distinguish reality from fantasy.
     The author stresses that based on a play by the Spanish writer Juan Mayorga, “In the House” weaves a pleasant and clever spell, manipulating the viewer much in the way that Claude plays with Germain.The viewers are never quite sure if the boy is writing truth or fiction — the scenes he composes are no less “real” than anything else in the movie — or whether the remarkable events he reports are embellishments or outright inventions.
      The author of the article underlined that the dexterity of the actors and their director is not quite enough, and as “In the House” accelerates, it also starts to sputter, piling on incidents and revelations that cause its web of implications to unravel.
     The article reports that if you are like the main character that might drive you crazy; if not, you might just start to feel tired.
     Having read the article I would like to watch this film,to my mind it is very contradictory.
   

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    The article under consideration is headlined Helena Carroll, 84, Actress of Stage and Screen, Dies.It is published on the website of the newspaper "The New York Times" on April 10,2013.The author of of the article is Margalit Fox.In the current article the author told about the famous Irish actress,Helena Carroll,who died on March 31 in Marina del Rey, Calif. She was 84.
     Helena Carroll is known for her stage, film and television appearances in the United States.Ms. Carroll, who moved to the United States in the 1950s, appeared regularly onstage in New York, Dublin and London, often starring in work by her father, the noted playwright Paul Vincent Carroll.
    The author underlined that  on Broadway Carroll   was seen in the original production of the musical "Oliver",in "Borstal Boy"adapted from Brendan Behan’s autobiographical book;in "Private Lives"starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, in which she played the maid.
    The article reports that Ms. Carroll founded the Irish Players, a New York repertory company dedicated to presenting the work of Irish playwrights.The company  flourished from the mid-1950s to the mid-’60s. They staged plays by such writers as John Millington Synge, Donagh MacDonagh and Ms. Carroll’s father,about the political and religious conflicts roiling 20th-century Ireland.
      Helena Carroll also appeared in films : “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”,"The Dead", "The Mambo Kings".On television she had guest roles on a string of shows, including "Ironside", "Kojak", "Murder, She Wrote" and "Touched by an Angel" .
     Ms. Carroll  lived in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles,she died because of heart failure.
      Unfortunately I don't watch the movies or TV-shows with   Ms. Carroll's participation.No doubt, she was very talented actress and director  of  New York repertory company.She was proud of her  native land and tried to show the best masterpieces of Irish playwrights to the whole world.