Freefall Productions

Galveston (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / US / 91 minutes “The past isn’t real. You remember it how you want to remember it.” Director: Melanie Laurent / Screenplay: Jim Hammett, based on the novel by Nic Pizzolatto / Director of Photography: Arnaud Potier / Music: Marc Chouarain and Eugenie Jacobson / Production: Tyler Davidson for Low Spark Films / Cast: Ben Foster (Roy), Elle Fanning (Rocky), Maria Valverde (Carmen), Beau Bridges (Stan), Lili Reinhart (Tiffany), Adepero Oduye (Loraine), Robert Aramayo (Tray), C.K. McFarland (Nancy). In 2008, ex- convict Roy Cady (Ben Foster) is living in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Ike approaches. Twenty years earlier, Roy was working as a hitman for small-time gangster Stan (Beau Bridges) in New Orleans. Just after Roy’s girlfriend Carmen (Maria Valverde) leaves him for his boss, he’s mistakenly diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.    Sent on a seem...

Mandy (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / US / 121 minutes “For a while now, word’s been coming down that there’s something dark and fearsome out there…” Director: Panos Cosmatos / Screenplay: Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn / Director of Photography: Benjamin Loeb / Music: Johann Johannsson / Production: Martin Metz, Daniel Noah, Adrian Politowski and Elijah Wood for XYZ Films / Cast: Nicolas Cage (Red Miller), Andrea Riseborough (Mandy Bloom), Linus Roache (Jeremiah Sand), Bill Duke (Caruthers), Ned Dennehy (Brother Swan), Clement Baronnet (Brother Klopek), Alexis Julemont (Brother Hanker). The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red Miller (Nicolas Cage) lives in a small cabin in the woods with his younger, artist girlfriend, Mandy Bloom (Andrea Riseborough). Red works as a logger while Mandy is a cashier at a remote gas station. From what we see of Red and Mandy’s interactions, it seems that he is a reco...

Hurricane (from Weird and Wonderful II: Fifty More Cult Films by George Hughes, available from www.freefall-productions.com) 2018 / Poland-UK / 107 minutes “You teach us MPH not KPH, gallons not litres, feet instead of metres… But the one thing we all already know how to do is fly!” Director: David Blair / Screenplay: Robert Ryan and Alastair Galbraith / Director of Photography: Piotr Sliskowski / Music: Laura Rossi / Production: Krystian Kozlowski and Mathew Whyte for Stray Dog Films / Cast: Iwan Rheon (Jan Zumbach), Milo Gibson (John Kent), Stefanie Martini (Phyllis Lambert), Krystof Hadek (Josef Frantisek), Marcin Dorocinski (Witold Urbanowicz), Manuel Klein (Trost), Rosie Gray (Georgina), Marc Hughes (Ellis), William Nash (Naval Controller), Karolina Zajac (Civilian 1), Monika Walczak (Civilian 2). In the run- up to the eightieth anniversaries of the Dunkirk evacuation, the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, two high- profile British films, Christopher Nolan’s outstanding Dunkirk (20...