Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts

Sunday, May 25, 2025

On this day in movie history - Candy (2006):


Candy

directed by Neil Armfield,
written by Neil Armfield and Luke Davies,
based on the novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction by Luke Davies,
was released in Australia on May 25, 2006.
Music by Paul Charlier.


Cast:

Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza Mont, Tony Martin, Noni Hazlehurst, Holly Austin, Craig Moraghan, John Lee, Noel Herriman, Tim McKenzie, Tara Morice, Maddi Newling, Patricia Lemon, Barry Jaggers, Cristian Saliadarre, Leo Cowan, Jason Chan, Luke Davies, Sean O'Riordan, Adrienne Pickering, Damon Herriman, Lette Webb, Sandy Winton, Rebecca Watt, Nathaniel Dean, John McNeill, Doreen Mullen, Felix Kerdijk, Felino Dolloso, Paul Blackwell, Lee Lin Chin, Anni Finsterer, Alicia Hannah-Kim, Brian Houston, Michael Ienna.

Saturday, May 24, 2025

On this day in movie history - An Inconvenient Truth (2006):


An Inconvenient Truth

directed by Davis Guggenheim,
a documentary written by and presented by Al Gore,
was released in the United States on May 24, 2006.
Music by Michael Brook.
Song I Need to Wake Up
by Melissa Etheridge.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Recommended reading - The Long Good Friday, screenplay by Barrie Keefe (2006):


The Long Good Friday

screenplay by Barrie Keefe.

Filmed as The Long Good Friday (1980), directed by John Mackenzie.

Published by Methuen Publishing.
Published 2006.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0413722902
ISBN-13: 978-0413722904

Description:

The first British thriller to even approach the cracking vitality of the classic Hollywood gangster movies ...dazzlingly slick. – Daily Mail.

The best British gangster flick of all time. – Empire.

Barrie Keeffe's acclaimed screenplay for the classic film. Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own 'corporation' and owning his own yacht and classy mistress. He has the police and the local authorities in his pocket, is planning a major London property development and forging links with the international Mafia. Everything indeed is coming up roses for Harold until the Easter weekend when enemies unknown embark on a series of lethal outrages against his organisation. As the story accelerates to a crazy vortex of violence, Harold discovers he has unwittingly crossed enemies whose connections, expertise and dedication to violence outclass his own.

Monday, April 7, 2025

On this day in movie history - Brick (2005):


Brick

directed and written by Rian Johnson,
was released in the United States on April 7, 2006.
Music by Nathan Johnson.


Cast:

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary, Emilie de Ravin, Noah Segan, Richard Roundtree, Meagan Good, Brian White, Jonathan Cauff, Reedy Gibbs, Lucas Babin, Tracy Bitterolf, Ari Welkom, Cody Lightning, McJoel Hamilton, Lauren Johnson, Dylan Lujano.

Monday, March 24, 2025

On this day in movie history - Inside Man (2006):


Inside Man

directed by Spike Lee,
written by Russell Gewirtz,
was released in the United States on March 24, 2006.
Music by Terence Blanchard.


Cast:

Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Kim Director, James Ransone, Bernie Rachelle, Peter Gerety, Victor Colicchio, Cassandra Freeman, Peter Frechette, Gerry Vichi, Waris Ahluwalia, Rafael Osorio, Rodney 'Bear' Jackson, Daryl Mitchell, Ashlie Atkinson, David Brown, Robert C. Kirk, Frank Stellato, Ken Leung, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Ed Onipede Blunt, Amir Ali Said, Lemon Andersen, Samantha Ivers, Peter Kybart, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Jeff Ward, Anthony Mangano, Michael Devine, Ed Bogdanowicz, Aaron Vexler, Anthony Borowiec, Joe Coots, Lionel Pina, Ken Ferrigni, Frank Hopf, Robert Testut, Craig M. Spitzer, Limary Agosto, Patrick Illig, Frank Composto, Rozanne Sher, Rachel Black, Gregory Dann, Ben Crowley, Shon Gables, Dominic Carter, Sandra Endo, Kandiss Edmundson, Al Palagonia, Florina Petcu, Agim Coma, John Speredakos, Baktash Zaher, Ernest Rayford, Vincent DiMartino, Julian Niccolini, Ed Crescimanni, Brad Leland.