Tag Archives: Liev Schreiber

victims, witnesses and changers of history (Film: The Butler – Forest Whitaker, 2013)

One of the scenes from the movie ‘The Butler‘ directed by Lee Daniels takes place in the late 1960s in the house of Cecil Gaines (played by Forest Whitaker), butler at the White House and his wife (played by Oprah … Continue reading

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Requiem for True Journalism (Film: Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, 2015)

Director Tom McCarthy authored a very interesting first film in 2003 (The Station Agent) and then his career seemed to go adrift into ‘OK movies’. Now he hits gold with Spotlight which does not differ much in directing style from … Continue reading

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heroic view of the Bielski brothers story (Film: Defiance – Edward Zwick, 2008)

Defiance tells about one of the lesser known episodes of World War II in which a group of Polish Jews saved themselves from the ghettos and the executions by the German occupiers and their local collaborators and formed a partisans … Continue reading

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