Sam Mendes - Film Makers

"Samuel Alexander Mendes" CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English stage and film director. As a stage director, he is probably best known for his 1998 production of "Cabaret", starring Alan Cumming. As a film director, he is best known for his debut film, "American Beauty", for which he won an Academy Award for Directing. In 2000, Mendes was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. ....more
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Away We Go arrives on Blu-ray and M&C’s giving away two copies
Sep 30, 2009, 9:45 GMT
From acclaimed Director Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road), Away We Go has arrived on Blu-ray from Focus Features and M&C’s giving away two copies! ... moreFocus finds the 'Netherland'
Sep 17, 2009, 19:02 GMT
Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions will team up with Focus Features to mount a feature adaptation of 'Netherland,' the Joseph O'Neill novel that Harpo optioned last year when it was published. ... more
Revolutionary Road – DVD Review
Jun 15, 2009, 11:11 GMT
“Abandon hope all ye who enter here,” is part of the inscription on the gate to Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy. This should be the tag line for Revolutionary Road. Not that it isn’t well cast, acted to perfection and carefully filmed, it is all of these, but this movie is as depressing as the location of the above mentioned line from Dante. ... moreRevolutionary Road - Blu-ray Review
Jun 3, 2009, 13:59 GMT
The stars of Titanic reunite in film once again, though this movie is about as far away from their first outing as you can imagine. Where Titanic featured a doomed ocean liner, Revolutionary Road paints a picture of domestic bliss gone wrong from the 1961 novel by Richard Yates. ... moreThings We Lost In the Fire – Blu-ray Review
Mar 23, 2009, 14:36 GMT
The first-time American feature from Danish helmer Susanne Bier, 'Things We Lost in the Fire' is a competent human drama livened up considerably by Benecio Del Toro's fire-plug performance as a junkie forced into the life of a bereaved widow looking for any last connections to her husband. ... more


