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- Captain Phillips. We all know that Tom Hanks is a good actor — his two consecutive Academy Awards in the early '90s stand as testament to that fact. But he's also one of the last remaining movie stars, which means that when we watch a Tom Hanks film, we're more or less expecting to see some iteration of the congenial Tom Hanks persona on screen.
- 22 July. Another day, another devastating Greengrass docudrama. "22 July" captures the too-terrible-for-words events of July 22, 2011, when a Norwegian terrorist opened fire on a group of students on the island of Utøya, killing 77 people, most of whom were children.
- News of the World. "News of the World" is interesting, because as much as it takes a step away from Paul Greengrass' usual habit of highlighting real-life stories, it also features a character (played by Tom Hanks) who makes a living traveling around the country providing dramatic recitations of the news, arguably acting as a predecessor for Greengrass himself.
- United 93. When we talk about the moral ambiguity of exploiting real-life tragedy in film, "United 93" is one of the first movies that comes to mind. Released just a few years after 9/11, "United 93" is the story of the passengers on a hijacked plane who worked together to regain control of the cockpit and executed a crash landing, sacrificing themselves so that the plane would not reach its intended target.
Paul Greengrass CBE (born 13 August 1955) [1] is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist . One of his early films, Bloody Sunday (2002), won the Golden Bear at 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Other films Greengrass has directed include all three in the Bourne action-thriller film series: The Bourne ...
Mar 24, 2024 · Paul Greengrass is a British filmmaker who may be most well-known for his distinctive shaky-cam shooting style. He started out as a journalist before pivoting to directing non-fiction, made-for-TV ...
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Producer. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:10. Five Came Back (2017) 8 Videos. 56 Photos. Paul Greengrass started his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. Those short movies were animation horror films he made using old dolls, artist dummies, and the general art room clutter.
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PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller. When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive. Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox. Votes: 486,664 | Gross: $176.24M.
Aug 5, 2023 · 11. The Theory of Flight (1998) In his second feature, Greengrass tells the story of a young woman with ALS (Helena Bonham Carter) who asks her artistic caregiver (Kenneth Brannagh) to help her ...
Filmography: Paul Greengrass. Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
