Film review: The Great Gatsby (2013)

The Great Gatsby
2013
Village Roadshow Pictures, Bazmark Productions, A&E Television, Red Wagon Entertainment

STARRING Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton, Callan McAuliffe, Jason Clarke, Elizabeth Debicki
WRITTEN BY Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, based on some book nobody’s ever heard of by F. Scott Fitzgerald called The Great Gatsby
PRODUCED BY Baz Luhrmann, Douglas Wick, Lucy Fisher, Catherine Martin, Catherine Knapman
DIRECTED BY Baz Luhrmann

SHOT BY Simon Duggan
PRODUCTION DESIGN BY Catherine Martin
EDITED BY Matt Villa, Jason Ballantine, Jonathan Redmond
MUSIC BY Craig Armstrong
DISTRIBUTED BY Warner Bros. Pictures

Screened 2013-05-07

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Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant adaptation of The Great Gatsby is a fairy tale about money. Much of it feels like an amusement park ride, an ostentatious Broadway musical,

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Film review: At Any Price

At Any Price
2012
Black Bear Pictures, Treehouse Pictures, Killer Films, Noruz Films, Big Indie Pictures

STARRING Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Kim Dickens, Heather Graham, Clancy Brown, Maika Monroe
WRITTEN BY Ramin Bahrani, Hallie Elizabeth Newton
PRODUCED BY Teddy Schwarzman, Justin Nappi, Kevin Turen, Christine Vachon, Ramin Bahrani, Pamela Koffler
DIRECTED BY Ramin Bahrani

SHOT BY Michael Simmonds
EDITED BY Affonso Gonçalves
MUSIC BY Dickon Hinchliffe
DISTRIBUTED BY Sony Pictures Classics

Screened 2013-04-02

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Dennis Quaid plays the ambitious and emotionally crushed Henry Whipple, an Iowa patriarch struggling to keep his family farm prosperous in the cutthroat environment of Big Agro. This is made considerably more difficult by his firebrand son Dean, played by the (shucks) smoldering Zac Efron, a young man resentful

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