Freefall Productions

Who Killed Captain Alex? (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2010 / Uganda / 64 minutes “Bomb anything big and important!” Director: Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana / Screenplay: Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana / Director of Photography: Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana / Music: Vincent Kzito / Production: Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana for Ramon Film Productions / Cast: Charles Bukenya (Alex’s Brother), Ernest Sserunya (Richard), William Kakule (Captain Alex), Duada Bisaso (Rock), Prossy Nakyambadde (Ritah). At the turn of the millennium, the powers that be controlling the film and record industries faced an existential threat on two fronts due to digital technology becoming more accessible for ordinary citizens of the western world. The first was piracy and file- sharing as the internet made it possible to obtain albums and movies without paying for them. The second was consumer- level digital video cameras an...

The Book of Eli (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2010 / US / 118 minutes “It’s not a fucking book! It’s a weapon! A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the desperate!” Directors: Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes / Screenplay: Gary Whitta / Director of Photography: Don Burgess / Music: Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne / Production: Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove, Denzel Washington, David Valdes and Joel Silver for Silver Pictures / Cast: Denzel Washington (Eli), Gary Oldman (Carnegie), Mila Kunis (Solara), Ray Stevenson (Redridge), Jennifer Beals (Claudia), Evan Jones (Martz), John Pingue (Hoyt), Frances de la Tour (Martha), Michael Gambon (George), Tom Waits (The Engineer), Malcolm McDowell (Lombardi). Opening like a standard post- apocalyptic Sci- Fi / Actioner with a lone scavenger proving he can more than handle himself against more aggressive survivors who cross him, Albert ...

The Secret in Their Eyes (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2009 / Argentina / 129 minutes “That part when the guy leaves for Jujuy… Her running on the platform after the man of her dreams, touching hands through the glass like they’re one… And her crying, like she knew her fate was mediocrity and never loving anyone, practically falling on the tracks, proclaiming love she’d never had the courage to confess… If that’s what happened, why didn’t you take me with you?” Director: Juan Jose Campanella / Screenplay: Eduardo Sacheri & Juan Jose Campanella, based on the novel La Pregunta de sus Ojos by Eduardo Sacheri / Director of Photography: Felix Monti / Music: Federio Jusid / Production: Mariela Besuievsky and Juan Jose Campanella for Haddock Films / Cast: Ricardo Darin (Benjamin Esposito), Soledad Villamil (Irene Menendez Hastings), Carla Quevedo (Liliana Coloto), Pablo Rago (Ricardo Morales), Javier Godi...

 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2009 / Sweden / 152 minutes “What has happened to you? How did you turn out this way? You know everything about me. I don’t know shit about you. Not a damn thing.” Director: Niels Arden Oplev / Screenplay: Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterbeg, based on the novel by Steig Larsson / Director of Photography: Eric Kress / Music: Jacob Groth / Production: Soren Staermose for Yellow Bird Films / Cast: Michael Nyqvist (Mikael Blomkvist), Noomi Rapace (Lisbeth Salander), Lena Endre (Erika Berger), Peter Haber (Martin Vanger), Peter Andersson (Nils Bjurman), David Dencik (Janne Dahlman), Sven-Bertil Taube (Henrik Vanger). Journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), publisher of Sweden’s independent Millennium magazine, is hired by Henrik Venger (Sven-Bertil Taube), patriarch of the wealthy Vanger family, to investigate the disappearance of his...

District 9 (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2009 / South Africa / 112 minutes “What, for an alien, might be seen as something recreational- setting fire to a truck or derailing a train- is of course, to us, a very destructive act…” Director: Neill Blomkamp / Screenplay: Terri Tatchell & Neill Blomkamp / Director of Photography: Trent Opaloch / Music: Clinton Shorter / Production: Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham for TriStar Pictures / Cast: Sharlto Copley (Wikus van der Merwe), Jason Cope (Christopher Johnson), David James (Colonel Koobus Venter), Vanessa Haywood (Tania Smit-van der Merwe), Louis Minnaar (Piet Smit). Appearing in the summer of 2009 and opening against the likes of Terminator: Salvation, J.J. Abrams’ first “Alternate Reality” Star Trek and Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Neill Blomkamp’s unique South African Sci- Fi film District 9 gave the Hollywood Blockbuste...