Jason Kelly Movies
- 2008
Filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson marks one of the few contemporary directors aggressively working to expand the boundaries of the cinematic essay as a narrative mode. Within this sphere as well, Everson's approach to filmmaking waxes unique: it involves building cohesive sequences out of individual components so evocative and poetic that each carries a myriad of connotations and could ostensibly stand on its own; woven together, the sequences enable Everson to meditate extensively on a given theme. With The Golden Age of Fish, Everson takes on a broad subject: the life, sustenance and collective future of the African American population in the U.S. The director travels to Midwestern Cleveland, Ohio, and looks at black lives from a myriad of angles - sociologically, culturally, economically, historically - while a black geologist narrates several tales of individual African American stories set in Cleveland. The title refers to the "Devonian" period of archaeology, some 417 to 354 million years B.C., when fish first began to appear in the area that is now Cleveland. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lisa Hunt, Carla Carter, (more)
Directed by Clint Eastwood, the mysterious drama Mystic River is based on the novel by Dennis Lehane and adapted by screenwriter Brian Helgeland. Set in an Irish neighborhood in Boston, Jimmy, Sean, and Dave are three childhood friends who are reunited after a brutal murder takes place. Reformed convict Jimmy Markum (Sean Penn) and his devoted wife Annabeth (Laura Linney) find out that their teenage daughter Katie (Emmy Rossum) has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean Devine (Kevin Bacon) is the homicide detective assigned to the case, along with partner Whitey Powers (Laurence Fishburne). Jimmy also gets his relatives, the Savage brothers (Adam Nelson and Robert Wahlberg), to conduct an investigation of their own. Jimmy and Sean both start to suspect their old pal, Dave Boyle (Tim Robbins), who lives a quiet life with his wife Celeste (Marcia Gay Harden) but harbors some disturbing secrets. Clint Eastwood won a Golden Coach for Mystic River at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Starring:
- Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, (more)
