On this day in movie history – Cosmopolis (2012 movie & novel):

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Cosmopolis

directed and written by David Cronenberg,

based on the novel by Don DeLillo,

released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 25, 2012.

Music by Howard Shore.

Cast:

Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti, Kevin Durand, Abdul Ayoola, Juliette Binoche, Emily Hampshire, Bob Bainborough, Samantha Morton, Zeljko Kecojevic, Jay Baruchel, Philip Nozuka, Mathieu Amalric, Patricia McKenzie, Ryan Kelly, Nadeem Phillip/Umar-Khitab, Albert Gomez, Goûchy Boy, David Schaap, Warren Chow, George Touliatos, Jadyn Wong, K'Naan, Inessa Frantowski, Jonathan Seinen, Milton Barnes, John Batkis, Saad Siddiqui, Anna Hardwick, Maria Juan Garcias, Christopher Gross, Conor Loftus, Paulette Sinclair, Noah Wallach.

Recommended reading:

Cosmopolis

by Don DeLillo.

Filmed as Cosmopolis (2012), directed by David Cronenberg.

Published by Scribner.
First published 2003.

ISBN-10: 0743244257
ISBN-13: 978-0743244251

Description:
"Cosmopolis is a concise Ulysses for the new century." – The San Diego Union-Tribune.

It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism – when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments – are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol’s funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors – experts on security, technology, currency, finance and a few sexual partners – as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.

Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.

On this day in movie history - Good Time (2017)

Good Time

directed by Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie,

written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 25, 2017.

Music by Oneohtrix Point Never.

Cast:

Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress, Taliah Webster, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, Necro, Peter Verby, Saida Mansoor, Gladys Mathon, Rose Gregorio, Eric Paykert, Astrid Corrales, Rachel Black, Hirakish Ranasaki, Maynard Nicholl, Ben Edelman, Laurence Blum, Jason Harvey, Robert Clohessy, Michael Kaufman, Goran Spadina, Michael McClard, Eloisa Santos, Bryan Seslow, Craig muMs Grant, George Lee, Kate Halpern, Christopher Kirk, Leticia Ortega, Souleymane Sy Savane, Mahadeo Shivraj, Dorothi Fox, Ratnesh Dubey, Tessa O’Conner, Jim Handley, Cliff Moylan, Peter Linari, Chris Breslin, Evonne Walton, Lewis Dodley, Tara Lynn Wagner, Jim Dzurenda, Roy James Wilson, Brendan M. Burke, Jordan Valdez, Laura Sledge, Jerome Frazier, Javaughn Swindell, Dion McBean, Sean Miller, Benny DeVincenzi, Joey McDevitt, Daniel Chung, Afro, Azul Rodriguez, Jarvis, Mavrin Kirill, KJ Rothweiler, Michael Shershenovich, Mr. Green, Roi Cydulkin, Scrooge, Terrance Williams, Kim Carter, Gianluca Cirafici, Megan Dodd, Samantha Elisafon, Melissa Gonzalez, Rodney Hankins, Carol Hoverman, Andrew Kader, Marissa Lelogeais, Michael Lorch, Michael Melendez, Christian Patane, Ari Sloan, Bakari Williams, Aubrie Therrien, A-F-R-O, Sebastian Bear-McClard, Phil Cappadora, Francisco De Arriba, Luca De Massis, Lucas Elliot Eberl, Marcos A. Gonzalez, Jibril Goodman, Edgar Morais, Shaun Rey, Sacco Sarkis.

On this day in movie history - The Lighthouse (2019)

The Lighthouse

directed by Robert Eggers,

written by Robert Eggers and Max Eggers,

was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 19, 2019.

Music by Mark Korven.

 

Cast:

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman, Logan Hawkes, Kyla Nicolle, Shaun Clarke, Pierre Richard, Preston Hudson, Jeffrey Cruts, Sully Seagull.