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7500

June 15, 2020 By Leave a Comment

7500

7500, the code used for hijackings, takes the all-too-familiar tropes of a terrorist hijacking and reframes them with a harrowing story that unfolds in real time. By removing any hint of sensationalism from the events, filmmaker Patrick Vollrath focuses on the moment-to-moment uncertainty of people ripped in an instant from the security of their familiar… Read More »

Tagged With: airplane pilot, hijacking, hostage, stabbing, terrorism

BUSTER’S MAL HEART

May 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

BUSTER’S MAL HEART

It becomes clear early on that at some point in Jonas’ life, he has taken leave of his senses.  Or, rather, his world has come apart at the seams, and his mind has done its poor best to reconstruct it using odds and ends. Told in the not necessarily linear way that the mind operates… Read More »

Tagged With: burglary, castaway, Christmas, concierge, conspiracy, hostage, madness, manhunt, New Year, sheriff

THEO WHO LIVED — David Schisgall Interview

December 19, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THEO WHO LIVED — David Schisgall Interview

THEO WHO LIVED is a story of the remarkable empathy its subject, American journalist Theo Padnos, found for the captors who tortured him after being kidnapped in Syria in 2012.  David Schisgall’s sensitive, heart-wrenching documentary about Theo, like Theo himself, finds the humanity in everyone. Preferring to see people as individuals rather than stereotypes, it’s… Read More »

Tagged With: Al Qaeda, documentary, empathy, Evil Empire, FBI, hostage, ISIS, James Foley, Political kidnapping, Syria, terrorism, turkey

BURIED

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BURIED

It would be easy, and a huge mistake, to dismiss BURIED as a stunt film. Sure, Ryan Reynolds spends the entire 94 minutes of the running time buried underground in a box, but such is the imaginative take on the subject by screenwriter Chris Sparling and director Roderigo Cortes, that the struggle of one confined… Read More »

Tagged With: BURIED, buried alive, cell phone, Chris Sparling, civilian contractor, film, hostage, lifeline, movie, narrative, Roderigo Cortes, Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds is BURIED

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Ryan Reynolds is BURIED

Ryan Reynolds has had many challenging roles in his career, but spending 17 days flat on his back playing a man buried alive was unique among them. When I spoke to him on September 20, 2010, he described why he wanted to take it on, how he used the lesson of a skydive gone wrong… Read More »

Tagged With: BURIED, buried alive, cell phone, Chris Sparling, civilian contractor, film, hostage, lifeline, movie, narrative, Roderigo Cortes, Ryan Reynolds, skydiving

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