Inside Job (2010 film)
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| Directed by | Charles Ferguson |
| Narrated by | Matt Damon |
| Cinematography | Svetlana Cvetko Kalyanee Mam |
| Edited by | Chad Beck Adam Bolt |
| Music by | Alex Heffes |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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| Country | Template:Film US |
| Language | English |
Inside Job is a 2010 documentary film about the financial crisis of 2007-2010 directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2010.
Storyline
The subject of Inside Job is the global financial crisis of 2008. It features research and extensive interviews with financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics.
Production
It was produced by Audrey Marrs with Jeffrey Lurie and Christina Weiss Lurie as executive producers. The directors of photography were Svetlana Cvetko and Kalyanee Mam.
Alex Hefee composed the music and Matt Damon narrated.
Reception
The film has received mostly positive reviews, earning a 97% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes website, which compiles reviews from multiple critics.[1] One viewer-reporter characterized the film as "rip-snorting [and] indignant [with] support from interviews with Nouriel Roubini, Barney Frank, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Charles R. Morris and others. But the most effective presence," he continues, "may be the trusted voice of all-American actor Matt Damon, who narrates the furious takedown of the financial services and the government. It's a fairly bold move by the actor."[2]
It was selected for a special screening at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. A reviewer writing from Cannes characterized the film as telling "a complex story exceedingly well and with a great deal of unalloyed anger. [It] lays out its essential argument, cogently and convincingly, that the 2008 meltdown was avoidable. ... [L]ess familiar faces, including a brothel madam and a therapist who each catered to Wall Street in the bubble years [are also seen, and t]he movie ends not long after Robert Gnaizda, formerly with the Greenlining Institute, a housing advocacy group, characterizes the Obama administration as 'a Wall Street government', a take Mr. Ferguson clearly endorses."[3]
Writing from proximity to an epicenter of a southwestern Florida region profoundly affected by the collapse, another reviewer, Dennis Maley, relates, "[h]aving followed and covered the related events closely, I cannot think of a more effective way to explain the sordid mess to a curious layman than having them watch this film. Ferguson has succeeded in taking a complex and sometimes dry topic and making it not only surprisingly digestible, but thoroughly entertaining." Maley notes the effectiveness of the director's approach, "...letting full-length answers speak for themselves, the punctuating silence at the end of the response reminding the viewer that no creative editing was needed..." and, summing it up as "... a gripping account of what happened, how it came to be and most frighteningly, why it will all happen again.[4]
Accolades
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result |
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| Academy Awards[5] | February 27, 2011 | Best Documentary Feature | Charles H. Ferguson and Audrey Marrs | Pending |
| Chicago Film Critics Association Awards[6] | December 20, 2010 | Best Documentary Feature | Nominated | |
| Gotham Independent Film Awards[7] | November 29, 2010 | Best Documentary | Nominated | |
| Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards[8] | December 16, 2010 | Best Documentary Film | Nominated | |
| Online Film Critics Society Awards[9] | January 3, 2011 | Best Documentary | Nominated | |
| Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards[10] | December 28, 2010 | Best Documentary Feature | Nominated | |
| Writers Guild of America Awards[11] | February 5, 2011 | Best Documentary Screenplay | Nominated | |
| Directors Guild of America Awards[12] | December 29, 2010 | Best Documentary | Won |
References
- ^ "Inside Job Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
- ^ Hill, Logan (May 16, 2010). "Is Matt Damon's Narration of a Cannes Doc a Sign that Hollywood is Abandoning Obama?". [[New York (magazine)|]]. Retrieved May 16, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Dargis, Manohla (May 16, 2010). "At Cannes, the Economy Is On-Screen". Retrieved May 17, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Text "publisherThe New York Times" ignored (help) - ^ Maley, Dennis (November 16, 2010). "Inside Job is a Masterful Look at What Happened in Financial Collapse". The Bradenton Times. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
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- ^ "Chicago Film Critics Awards - 2008-2010". Chicago Film Critics Association. Retrieved January 26, 2010.
- ^ Adams, Ryan (October 18, 2010). "2010 Gotham Independent Film Award Nominations". awardsdaily.com. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
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- ^ Stone, Sarah (December 27, 2010). "Online Film Critics Society Nominations". awardsdaily.com. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
Stone, Sarah (January 3, 2011). "The Social Network Named Best Film by the Online Film Critics". awardsdaily.com. Retrieved January 26, 2011. - ^ "Phoenix Film Critics Name THE KINGS SPEECH Best Film of 2010". Phoenix Film Critics Society. Retrieved January 26, 2011.
- ^ "Writer's Guild of America 2011 Nominations". Writers Guild of America. Retrieved February 6, 2011.
- ^ "DGA 2011 Award Winners Announced". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 29, 2011.