Top cast:Thomas H. Ince,Claire McDowell,W.C. Robinson
Director:Todd Field
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Russia
Year:2021
Storyline:From DreamWorks, it was the top Oscar-winning film of its year (with eight significant nominations and five wins), including Best Picture, Best Director (Mendes), Best Actor (Kevin Spacey), Best Original Screenplay (Alan Ball), and Best Cinematography (Conrad L.Jack Ryan took his girlfriend to the fancy White House Correspondents"" Dinner at the Hilton Hotel (using John Clark""s ticket), where the formal proceedings were interrupted by the news of a massive Russian artillery strike against Grozny, the capital city of Chechnya.Robinson), the two California settings (Los Angeles and Berkeley) and S.and N.California cultures (materialistic vs.intellectual), and the division in Benjamin""s character (morally drifting and indecisive vs.committed).There was already a growing dissatisfaction with the status quo and middle-class values, and the breakthrough film mirrored hat anarchic mood perfectly for America""s youth of the 60s during he escalation of the Vietnam War.The film""s defining elements included expressionistic, shadowy chiaroscuro lighting, strange camera angles, frequent first-person, descriptive voice-over narration, innovative set design, a convoluted time frame, and numerous flashbacks o frame the narrative.