Actor · 1968

Billy Crudup

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52 min: in total

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20th Century Women

Mike Mills · 2016

Set in 1979 Santa Barbara, Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women follows 15-year-old Jamie as his single mother Dorothea enlists two younger women — photographer Abbie and teenage friend Julie — to help raise him. Anchored by Annette Bening’s restrained performance, the film observes their overlapping lives with warmth and precision, treating feminism, illness, ageing and adolescence as lived conditions rather than themes. Shot by Sean Porter and edited by Leslie Jones, it moves at the pace of real conversation, building meaning through accumulation rather than climax.

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Big Fish

Tim Burton · 2003

Tim Burton’s 2003 fantasy drama Big Fish adapts Daniel Wallace’s novel into a tripartite portrait of a father’s tall tales and his son’s reluctant reckoning with them. Shot in Alabama with Philippe Rousselot’s sun-bleached cinematography and scored by Danny Elfman, it balances Southern Gothic texture with mythic whimsy. Though its tonal shifts and narrative looseness divided critics, its central theme — that stories are how we hold people close after they’re gone — remains its quiet, steady pulse.

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Jackie

Pablo Larraín · 2016

Jackie (2016) follows Jacqueline Kennedy in the week after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, framed by a Life magazine interview at Hyannis Port. Directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Natalie Portman, it focuses on her psychological navigation of grief, legacy, and public performance — not as a biographical survey, but as a study in containment. Stéphane Fontaine’s cinematography, Mica Levi’s score, and Sebastián Sepúlveda’s editing sustain a tense, intimate atmosphere. The film received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Actress for Portman.

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Public Enemies

Michael Mann · 2009

Michael Mann’s 2009 biographical crime film adapts Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction account of John Dillinger’s final year and the FBI’s pursuit under Melvin Purvis. Shot digitally on location across Wisconsin and Illinois, it prioritises procedural detail, institutional logic, and tactile authenticity over psychological exposition or romantic myth. With Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, and Marion Cotillard, it charts the convergence of Depression-era desperation, federal ambition, and emerging surveillance infrastructure.