Tag Archives: stuart dryburgh

The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jane Campion Writer: Laura Jones (Based on the novel by Henry James)

Posted in Drama, Romance | Tagged 1996, adaptation, barbara jershey, christian bale, drama, england, heiress, henry james, inheritance, jane campion, john malkovich, laura jones, london, love, marriage, martin donovan, mary-louise parker, monty montgomery, nicole kidman, relationship, richard e. grant, romance, shelley duvall, shelley winters, steve golin, stuart dryburgh, the portrait of a lady, veronika jenet, viggo mortensen, wife, wojciech killar | Leave a comment

The Piano (1993)

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jane Campion Writer: Jane Campion A weird lullaby.

Posted in Drama, Romance | Tagged 1993, adultery, affair, anna paquin, beach, cliff curtis, drama, finger, genevieve lemon, harvey keitel, holly hunter, jan chapman, jane campion, kerry walker, love, marriage, married, michael nyman, music, musician, mute, new zealand, piano, plantation, romance, sam neill, sign language, stuart dryburgh, the piano, veronika jenet | Leave a comment

An Angel at My Table (1990)

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Jane Campion Writer: Laura Jones (Based on the books “To the Is-Land” and “An Angel at My Table” and “The Envoy from Mirror City” by Janet Frame)

Posted in Drama | Tagged 1990, adaptation, an angel at my table, author, autobiography, biography, bridget ikin, doctor, don mcglashan, drama, ect, electroconvulsive therapy, hospital, institution, jane campion, janet frame, kerry fox, laura jones, metal hospital, misdiagnosis, new zealand, patient, poem, poet, poetry, schizophrenia, stuart dryburgh, the envoy from mirror city, to the is-land, true story, veronika haeussler, veronika jenet, writer, writing | Leave a comment

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: James Mangold Writers: James Mangold and Steven Rogers (Story by Steven Rogers) Horror movie sequel where Kate realizes it was a horrible mistake for a modern woman to go back in time and live in the 1800s.

Posted in Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | Tagged 1800s, 2001, actor, bradley whitford, breckin meyer, bridge, brooklyn, brooklyn bridge, butter, cathy konrad, comedy, commercial, craig bierko, david brenner, duke, elevator, fantasy, hugh jackman, james mangold, Kate & Leopold, kristen schaal, Liev Schreiber, marketing, meg ryan, natasha lyonne, new york, new york city, nyc, paxton whitehead, rolfe kent, romance, romantic comedy, spalding gray, stuart dryburgh, television, time travel, tv, viola davis | Leave a comment

Blackhat (2015)

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Michael Mann Writer: Morgan Davis Foehl Mann Watch 2021 complete! Good stuff! One of my favorite directors. Blackhat is not one of my favorites of his but I like it more on rewatch than I did in 2015.

Posted in Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Tagged 2015, action, andy on, atticus ross, blackhat, california, chicago, china, chinese, chris hemsworth, christian borle, computer, conspiracy, convict, crime, criminal, cybercrime, drama, fbi, hacker, hacking, Harry Gregson-Williams, holt mccallany, hong kong, illinois, indonesia, investigation, jakarta, jeremiah o'driscoll, joe walker, john ortiz, jon jashni, leehom wang, leo ross, leopold ross, los angeles, mako kamitsuna, michael mann, money, morgan davis foehl, nsa, nuclear power plant, police, prison, ritchie coster, shootout, stephen e. rivkin, stock market, stuart dryburgh, tang wei, terrorist attack, thomas tull, thriller, viola davis | Leave a comment

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

Posted on April 16, 2014 by Jon Watches Movies

Director: Ben Stiller Writer: Steve Conrad (Screen story by Steve Conrad) (Based on the short story by James Thurber) Not a good movie but gorgeous looking. Gross over the top product placement run amok.

Posted in Comedy, Drama, Review, Romance | Tagged adam scott, adaptation, adventure, afghanistan, andy richter, ben stiller, comedy, conan o'brien, crush, day dream, drama, dream, eharmony, fantasy, gore verbinski, greenland, himalaya, iceland, james thurber, jon daly, kathryn hahn, kristen wiig, life magazine, magazine, mountain, papa john, patton oswalt, photo, photographer, romance, romantic, sean penn, shark, shirley maclaine, short story, skateboard, steve conrad, stuart dryburgh, the secret life of walter mitty, travel, walter mitty, work | Leave a comment