Another Earth
Directed by: Mike Cahill
Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother
Running Time: 1 hr 32 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Nick Allen’s interview with director Mike Cahill
Nick Allen’s interview with Brit Marling
Nick Allen’s review of “Another Earth”
Plot: Scientists discover a duplicate planet in the solar system, and a young student (Marling) has a tragic accident that alters her life and another’s (Mapother).
Who’S It For? Indie sci-fi fans, which means this isn’t filled with special effects, it’s more about the emotional journey and overcoming tragedy.
Expectations: The title is pretty much all I knew. I heard the creepy guy from “Lost” was in it (Mapother).
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Brit Marling as Rhoda Williams: It’s a great performance that kept reminding me of Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone. Another Earth could be Rhoda’s key to happiness. Rhoda...
Directed by: Mike Cahill
Cast: Brit Marling, William Mapother
Running Time: 1 hr 32 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Nick Allen’s interview with director Mike Cahill
Nick Allen’s interview with Brit Marling
Nick Allen’s review of “Another Earth”
Plot: Scientists discover a duplicate planet in the solar system, and a young student (Marling) has a tragic accident that alters her life and another’s (Mapother).
Who’S It For? Indie sci-fi fans, which means this isn’t filled with special effects, it’s more about the emotional journey and overcoming tragedy.
Expectations: The title is pretty much all I knew. I heard the creepy guy from “Lost” was in it (Mapother).
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Brit Marling as Rhoda Williams: It’s a great performance that kept reminding me of Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone. Another Earth could be Rhoda’s key to happiness. Rhoda...
- 8/5/2011
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Chicago – The real strength of the new film “Another Earth” doesn’t necessarily lie in the science fiction aspect of a world appearing in the sky and bearing down on our earth, but in the humanity that is changed and reflected through that event. Director Mike Cahill co-wrote and directed this impressive and imaginative film.
Cahill is a writer, director, producer, cinematographer and editor that got his start as a field producer for National Geographic, making over a dozen films about animals and nature for that cable channel. His directorial debut came in 2004 with “Boxers and Ballerinas” (co-directed and co-written by Brit Marling, his writing partner on Another Earth). His interest in science and his experience shooting thousands of hours of film directly influenced the fragile and delicate atmosphere of his new film.
Brit Marling was Co-Writer with Mike Cahill on ‘Another Earth’
Photo credit: © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp...
Cahill is a writer, director, producer, cinematographer and editor that got his start as a field producer for National Geographic, making over a dozen films about animals and nature for that cable channel. His directorial debut came in 2004 with “Boxers and Ballerinas” (co-directed and co-written by Brit Marling, his writing partner on Another Earth). His interest in science and his experience shooting thousands of hours of film directly influenced the fragile and delicate atmosphere of his new film.
Brit Marling was Co-Writer with Mike Cahill on ‘Another Earth’
Photo credit: © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp...
- 8/1/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – “Another Earth” is a delicate movie. The emotions, atmosphere and philosophy feels like the whole thing could shatter at any moment, that’s how balanced it is on the edge of tomorrow. Through Brit Marling’s screenplay and performance, the very nature of who we are is questioned.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
The film uses a monumental cosmic event as the backdrop for the pure tragedy of seeking a forgiveness that probably can never come. By reflecting another earth back at us, it also serves as a mirror to reality. How would we react if the nature of our existence is proven to be a reflective illusion? Would we become brave and bold, or collapse into a fetal position, desperate to get back to the egg?
Rhoda (Brit Marling) is a happy-go-lucky 17 year old, on her way to MIT on a astrophysics scholarship. She over celebrates her good fortune at a party,...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
The film uses a monumental cosmic event as the backdrop for the pure tragedy of seeking a forgiveness that probably can never come. By reflecting another earth back at us, it also serves as a mirror to reality. How would we react if the nature of our existence is proven to be a reflective illusion? Would we become brave and bold, or collapse into a fetal position, desperate to get back to the egg?
Rhoda (Brit Marling) is a happy-go-lucky 17 year old, on her way to MIT on a astrophysics scholarship. She over celebrates her good fortune at a party,...
- 7/30/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – One of the true powers of the new film “Another Earth,” is the essential performance of Brit Marling as Rhoda, the lead character who seeks redemption in the midst of an interplanetary event that shakes up the universe. Her deep portrayal is enhanced by her role as co-writer of the screenplay.
Another Earth gained buzz at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in January, winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. Besides its integrity as a character study, Another Earth is an astounding “what if?” that encourages understanding about the nature of our existence.
World Above Us: Brit Marling as Rhoda Contemplates ‘Another Earth’
Photo credit: © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Brit Marling has been a filmmaker since 2004, often collaborating with Mike Cahill, the director of Another Earth. She was in Chicago recently promoting the film, and sat down for an interview with HollywoodChicago.
Another Earth gained buzz at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in January, winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. Besides its integrity as a character study, Another Earth is an astounding “what if?” that encourages understanding about the nature of our existence.
World Above Us: Brit Marling as Rhoda Contemplates ‘Another Earth’
Photo credit: © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp
Brit Marling has been a filmmaker since 2004, often collaborating with Mike Cahill, the director of Another Earth. She was in Chicago recently promoting the film, and sat down for an interview with HollywoodChicago.
- 7/28/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The Another Earth Movie Trailer has premiered. Mike Cahill‘s Another Earth (2011) stars Brit Marling, Williams Mapother, Jordan Baker, Flint Beverage, and Robin Taylor. Another Earth‘s plot synopsis: “Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (William Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined.” Rhoda is brave enough to seek out the person she hurt and whose life she changed forever yet doesn’t have the courage to tell that person what she did. I bet this changes at some point during Another Earth as the guilt of what she has done eats away at her. The back-drop of two Earths is pretty cool plot element.
- 4/23/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
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