[DVD] Tuesdays with Mell 12/31/2013

2013 Rom Com
Indie Spirit Nominee: Best First Screenplay

A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love. 

Writer/Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza Watch with: Crazy Stupid Love, The Way Way Back, Silve rLinings Playbook

2013 Biopic

A look at the New York City punk-rock scene and the venerable nightclub, CBGB. 

Director: Randall Miller

Writers: Director &  Jody Savin

Stars: Alan Rickman, Malin Akerman, Justin Bartha

Review: My friend actor James Green is in this film. Check him out in the hit webseries Zombie Socks.

Watch with: The Runaways, Almost Famous, Velvet Goldmine

2013 Western/Thriller

In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory. 

Director: Logan Miller

Writers: Andrew McKenzie (story), Logan Miller & Noah Miller(screenplay)

Stars: Ed Harris, January Jones, Jason Isaacs

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1799989529/

Watch with: Meek's Cuttoff & Dead Fall

2013 Drama

A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman. 

Director: Sandra Nettelbeck

Writers:  Sandra Nettelbeck (screenplay), Françoise Dorner(novel)

Stars: Michael Caine, Clemence Posey, Gillian Anderson

http://www.imdb.com/vid Clemence Posey, Gillian Andersoneo/screenplay/vi76064793/

Watch with: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , We Bought a Zoo, The Descendants

Love Marilyn 2012 Documentary)

Modern day celebrities interpret excerpts from memoirs written by people who knew Marilyn Monroe as well as her recently discovered personal journals and letters. (107 mins.)

Director: Liz Garbus

Writers:  Truman Capote (excerpts from memoirs), Liz Garbus, 

Ralph Greenson	...	(personal papers)
Elia Kazan	...	(excerpts from memoirs)
Natasha Lytess	...	(excerpts from memoirs)
Norman Mailer	...	(excerpts from book)
Arthur Miller	...	(excerpts from play)
Marilyn Monroe	...	(personal papers)
Norman Rosten	...	(excerpts from poem)
Gloria Steinem	...	(excerpts from book)
Billy Wilder	...	(excerpts from letters)

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Banks, Adrien Brody, Ellen Burstyn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMSHrnz4Rko

Watch with: My Week with Marilyn,