Ahead of its World Premiere at AFI Film Festival this Thursday, A24 has released this official trailer for J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year. The films is a searing crime drama set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous year in the city’s history. This gripping story plays out within a maze of rampant political and industry corruption plaguing the streets of a city in decay. And can anyone ever get enough of Oscar Issac and Jessica Chastain? I mean, that header image alone should be enough to sell anyone. Enjoy… In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and…
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J.C. Chandor's 'A Most Violent Year' Set To Begin Shooting
A24, the New York-based indie distributor, has recently acquired U.S. rights to Participant Media’s A Most Violent Year, written and directed by J.C. Chandor (All is Lost, Margin Call) and starring Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) and two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain. The official synopsis is as follows: A Most Violent Year is a thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city’s history. The film follows the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in…
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G-S-T Review…All Is Lost
Margin Call director, J.C. Chandor takes quite a different direction with this second film, All Is Lost, starring Robert Redford as a nameless man who is lost at sea and fighting for survival. Where as Margin Call was heavy with dialog, All Is Lost experiments with other forms of communication, from the sounds of nature to the thoughts inside the man’s head that we do not hear, but that we can imagine from the facial and physical queues Redford uses to portray them. At first this description might seem to recall the role of Tom Hanks in cast away Castaway, except Chandor’s and his crew faced the added challenge of…