Margin Call (movie)

Cannes Film Festival: J.C. Chandor's 'All Is Lost' is unusual survival tale

2013-05-23 13:25:00

CANNES, France — For his 2011 Wall Street drama "Margin Call," writer-director J.C. Chandor put an ensemble of stars including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore and Zachary Quinto into corporate offices and had them talk furiously as a crisis...

Cannes 2013: Reviewers onboard for 'All Is Lost'

2013-05-22 17:16:00

Some called it “Life of Pi” without the tiger. Others compared it to Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea.” But most critics liked what they saw in “All Is Lost,” an almost dialogue-free narrative feature...

Cannes Film Festival projects cross-cultural cinema

2013-05-15 05:00:00

— Invariably, the Cannes Film Festival chooses a striking image for its official annual poster. But the 2013 version can be seen as a particularly apt metaphor for the dual nature of the world's most essential cinema event. Paris-based graphic...

Cannes 2013: Palme d'Or goes to 'Blue Is the Warmest Color'

2013-05-26 16:35:00

CANNES, France — The hometown favorite won big time at the Festival de Cannes on Sunday night as France's "Blue Is the Warmest Color" walked off with the Palme d'Or. In a highly unusual step, jury president Steven Spielberg announced that the...

Robert Redford's 'new territory' with 'Captain America' sequel

2013-03-29 08:00:00

Though Robert Redford may be the very platonic ideal of a movie star -- a matinee idol from films such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting," "The Way We Were," "The Electric Horseman" and "Out of Africa" -- he has of late been involved...

Oscars 2012: An effort to be inclusive

2012-02-28 13:30:00

With open arms, the Oscars welcomed diversity back to its ceremony, but the embrace turned out to be more awkward than warm. Last year's Academy Awards were roundly criticized by several observers for its notable lack of diversity. Actor Samuel L....

Underrated/Overrated

2012-01-08 00:00:00

'Margin Call': Betsy Sharkey's film pick of the week

2011-12-01 16:37:18

'Margin Call' performing well theatrically despite VOD release

2011-11-06 16:33:27

'Margin Call' approaching 250,000 video-on-demand rentals

2011-11-10 16:33:29

'Arbitrage': Sympathy for the devil ★★★

2012-09-13 07:32:00

It's an unseemly request by a movie, to ask us to root for the lying, scrambling but extremely well-coiffed hedge fund billionaire weasel played by Richard Gere in the new film "Arbitrage." But there it is. The movie does ask, and to varying degrees, we...

Deadline nears for Herald-Mail's Oscar Picks Contest

2012-02-05 00:00:00

OK, so maybe your invitation to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences got lost in the mail this year. But you've paid your money, watched the films, then later picked them apart scene by scene with family and friends. So what if you don't...

. "As an actor, showing up to work every day was such an incredible gift. As a producer, every day I showed up to work was a complete nightmare. Because it turns out that the schedules of two Academy Award winners and two Academy Award nominees and amazing actors are really complicated.

2012-02-25 21:55:05

"A movie that forces you to re-consider the financial collapse." That's not an effective statement to get people to watch a quietly bubbling Wall Street drama, but "Margin Call" deserves more attention for its crisp writing and all-around solid performances, especially by Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany

2011-11-30 09:26:31

Zachary Quinto photographed in Los Angeles. Quinto is best known for his roles as Spock in the 2009 movie "Star Trek" and the emotionless villain in "Heroes." Quinto stars in and produces "Margin Call," a thiller about the 2008 Wall Street meltdown. This is the first film made by Quinto's

2011-10-24 18:29:28