Anthony Dod Mantle Articles

127 Hours (2010) Direction: Danny Boyle Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, John Bott, Treat Williams, John Lawrence, Kate Burton Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle; from Aron Ralston's book Between a Rock and a Hard Place Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations James Franco, 127 Hours When I initially heard that Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning team behind Slumdog Millionaire, were adapting [...]

Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan Lots of ties at the Utah Film Critics Association's 2010 awards. The Best Films (plural) were Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, in which James Franco resorts to desperate measures after getting trapped in a cave, and David Fincher's The Social Network, about the all the animosity behind the creation of Facebook. The Social Network also earned Aaron Sorkin the [...]

Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network Following a hiccup (that's the San Diego Film Critics Society), David Fincher's The Social Network resumed its (near-)absolute dominance among U.S. film critic' groups. The Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association was the latest organization to give its Best Picture of the Year citation to Fincher's drama about the creation of online phenomenon Facebook. [List of Dallas-Ft. [...]

Anna Kendrick, George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Not too many surprises among the Central Ohio Film Critics Association's 2009 winners. In the last few weeks, Up in the Air, George Clooney, Carey Mulligan, Up, Mo'Nique, and Christoph Waltz have all been cited a number of times by other critics' groups throughout the United States. The one Central Ohio win [...]