Meet the Filmmaker: Award Contenders
Summary: Join Events at the Apple Store as we examine all of the 2011 award season film favorites -- "The King's Speech", 'True Grit", "The Fighter", "Black Swan", "127 Hours", "The Social Network" and "Winter's Bone".
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Join filmmaker Debra Granik and actor Jennifer Lawrence as they discuss their 2010 film “Winter's Bone”, which won the Grand Jury Prize for Drama at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Adapting Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name, Granik wrote and directed this film set in the heart of Missouri’s Ozark woods. The film follows a despondent teenager Ree Dolly (Lawrence), whose father vanishes after selling their house as jail bond.
Join Oscar-nominated filmmaker David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and actor Jesse Eisenberg as they discuss their film “The Social Network” - a story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook. Directed by Fincher and written by prolific screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, the film stars Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. What began in a dorm room soon became a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
Join Darren Aronofsky ("The Wrestler") as he discusses his new film, "Black Swan." The film is a psychological thriller that’s set inside the prestigious New York City ballet company and follows prima ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) whose life, like all in her profession, is consumed with dance. She finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis). "Black Swan" takes us on a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina who becomes frighteningly perfect for the starring role as the duplicitous swan queen.
Join the Oscar Award‒winning "Slumdog Millionaire" team as they discuss their new film based on the true story of Aron Ralston, a trapped mountain climber who battles the elements and his own demons to discover he has the courage and wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary and choose life.
Join Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen as they discuss their new film, "True Grit."
Filmmaker David O. Russell discusses his new film, "The Fighter," a true story of two brothers who train for a historic boxing title.
Colin Firth and Tom Hooper discuss their critically acclaimed film, The King's Speech, with Edith Bowman at the Apple Store Regent Street in London.
