Seabiscuit (2003)
Directed by Gary Ross
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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It is not an easy process for them--nothing so complex as a complete change in mental outlook is simple--but writer/producer/director Gary Ross ("Seabiscuit") does a good job chronicling their slow and sometimes painful transformation from one-dimensional cutouts to fully realized, open-minded human beings.
But enough with the potshots at Ross, whose first and only other film was the tender, funny, feather-light-on-its-feet Pleasantville.
Directed by Gary Ross, also known for the 1998 comedy "Pleasantville," and based on the best selling book by Laura Hillenbrand, "Seabiscuit" is exhilarating, sentimental, and uplifting."
Director Gary Ross ("Pleasantville") does a great job plunking us into the middle of a horse race, but his adaptation of the novel is so heavily weighted setting up the misfortunes of his three main characters that the Seabiscuit years are given short shrift.
Director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) takes his time on the particulars.
By the time writer/director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) set out to make what would become the overwrought melodrama that is Seabiscuit, the heavy lifting had already been done.
Aparte de escribirla junto a Olivia Milch, Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games) dirige Ocean’s 8 con la agilidad y flexibilidad que uno espera de esta propiedad, manteniendo el espíritu juguetón de la trilogía mientras practica su propio estilo – mayormente dejando que las actrices hagan su trabajo – manteniendo buen ritmo sin perder el hilo.
Director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games) has said that this movie is “about camaraderie, not antagonism.”
Very rarely does this Ocean's director (Gary Ross of Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, and Hunger Games) seem like he'd buy what he's working to sell, on either the genre or the star-power count.
The director of “Ocean’s 8” is the talented veteran Gary Ross (“Seabiscuit,” “Pleasantville,” “The Hunger Games”), who co-wrote the screenplay with Olivia Milch, and they have delivered a solid if somewhat underwhelming caper similar in tone and style to the “Ocean’s” trilogy of the early 2000s.
Directed by Gary Ross (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, The Hunger Games), it is divided into your typical three acts: 1) plan the heist; 2) perform the heist; 3) aftermath of the heist.
This is a light, well-oiled bit of frippery directed by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Free State of Jones), written by him and Olivia Milch (who wrote and directed the Netflix film Dude).
The film Seabiscuit captures the spirit of the Depression and owes just as much to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath as it does to the story of the owner, trainer, jockey, and horse who gave millions of people hope at a time when there was little to go around.
As the innocent turned swashbuckler, in style, looks and functionality, I kept seeing Cox as an incarnation of Robert Downey, Jr. ( "A Scanner Darkly" ) in some moments, Tobey Maguire ( "Seabiscuit" ) in others.
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No surprise that this adaptation comes from the sure hand of director/writer Gary Ross who keeps this theme fresh, from Dave to Pleasantville to Seabiscuit and now, to The Hunger Games.
Director and co-adapter Gary Ross, whose two previous features were the comic fantasy "Pleasantville" (1998) and the rosy Depression-era underhorse saga "Seabiscuit" (2003), turned out to be a smart match for the material.
For a scene in which up to a dozen kids die in a matter of seconds, Gary Ross ("Seabiscuit") employs a handheld camera and quick cutting, never lingering on the horrific acts and minimizing the blood on the screen.
Adapted from the first in a trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games surely will be scrutinized in the way all novels with devoted followings are; i.e., there will be intense interest in whether director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit and Pleasantville) has honored both the letter and the spirit of Collins’s novel.
Lionsgate has put their potentially enormous franchise in the directorial hands of Gary Ross, the man who directed Seabiscuit.
The film, the first in a planned series, is based on Suzanne Collins' popular young adult novels and is directed by "Pleasantville" and "Seabiscuit" veteran Gary Ross.
The first Hunger Games was an inspired (if flawed) adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s bestselling novel; however, with a bigger budget and a switch in directorial approach (Seabiscuit‘s Gary Ross being replaced by Constantine director Francis Lawrence), the result is a bigger and better blockbuster movie experience.
The first “Hunger Games,” written and directed by Gary Ross (“Seabiscuit” and “Pleasantville”), felt paunchy, disingenuously deep and retro flimsy given the state of computer-enhanced filmmaking these days.
When we last caught up with Katniss Everdeen, she was reluctantly killing kids in Seabiscuit director Gary Ross’ aesthetically ugly, sloppily staged, cheapo adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ YA mega-seller.