Michael Carmen Pitt Night of the Hunted By Jay S. Jacobs We’ve been watching the long, winding road that actor Michael Pitt (he’s been going by his full name, Michael Carmen Pitt for the last few years, starting with the film Ghost in the Shell) has been following. The one thing that is most notable … Continue reading
Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet Aren’t Joking Around in Funny Games by Brad Balfour Ten years ago, German director Michael Haneke created a harrowing, near-psychotic film, Funny Games, about two young men – Paul and Peter – who force a couple and their son in their vacation cabin to play sadistic “games” with fatal results. A critique … Continue reading
THE DREAMERS (2004) Starring Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Robin Renucci, Anna Chancellor, Florian Cadiou, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Jean-Pierre Léuad and archival footage of Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Anna Karina and Jean Seberg. Screenplay by Gilbert Adair. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures. 115 minutes. Rated NC-17. It’s perhaps just bad timing … Continue reading
MURDER BY NUMBERS (2002) Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner, Chris Penn, R.D. Call and Tom Verica. Screenplay by Tony Gayton. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Distributed by Warner Brothers Pictures. 120 minutes. Rated R. The 1924 Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murder case… in which two well-to-do college students committed … Continue reading
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