2007

Direction:
Jan Kounen

Storyline:
The life of Octave Parango, a flamboyant advertising designer, full of success, satire, misery and love.

Opinion:
An extremely ambitious and darkly comic attack on modern capitalist consumer culture and our advertising-obsessed times. As someone who has been involved with the industry for years, there are many parallels that come to mind, and despite its age, still as relevant as ever.

Direction:
Andrew Dominik

Storyline:
Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, strives to join the Missouri gangster’s reform-minded gang, but gradually develops a dislike for the bandit leader.

Opinion:
Writer-director Andrew Dominik takes his time with the story, but his leisurely pace allows tension to build – and allows the actors to add nuance and depth to characters who seem familiar only at first glance. The vamose soundtrack and Roger Deakins’ wonderful cinematography round it all out to a Western that, unfortunately, too few still know, but everyone must have seen at least once.