The Machinist R
A little guilt goes a long way...
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Christian Bale & Jennifer Jason Leigh | |
Performer: | John Sharian, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Anna Massey, Colin Stinton & Michael Ironside | |
Directed by | Brad Anderson | |
Edited by | Luis de la Madrid | |
Screenwriting by | Scott Kosar | |
Composition by | Roque Baños | |
Produced by | Julio Fernandez | |
Director of Photography: | Xavi Giménez |
Entertainment Reviews:
Until now Bale's screen persona has been defined by a graceful athleticism; here his physicality is repellent, yet he carries the occasionally creaky plot of Scott Kosar's unsettling screenplay to a resonant finish.
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Chicago Reader
Some people will pick up the clues early in The Machinist and some won't. I got some, not all, but I remained unengaged throughout, largely because of the film's deliberateness, which feels like lack of passion.
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Sydney Morning Herald
A brilliant, harrowing performance by Bale.
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FilmsInReview.com
Rating: 3/4 --
It's one of those movies that you admire more than you enjoy, but Anderson and Kosar are clearly talents to watch.
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Seattle Times
Rating: 3/5 --
It's not necessarily a fun or loveable picture, but it is interesting and entertaining.
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7M Pictures
Rating: 3/5 --
If Nine Inch Nails, Swans and Ministry ever loomed large in the landscape of your imagination, Anderson's gloomy aesthetic may exert a sour but lingering pull.
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Film4
Bale's performance has the emotional weight to substantiate this body-art spectacle...
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Product Description:
Christian Bale delivers one of cinema's most sacrificial performances in Brad Anderson's mesmerizing thriller. Written by Scott Kosar (2003's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), THE MACHINIST takes place in a bleak and nondescript American city, where Trevor Reznick (Bale) is quite literally withering away to nothing. During the day Trevor works in a colorless industrial factory, while at night he seeks refuge in the bed of a tender prostitute, Stevie (Jennifer Jason Leigh). For reasons unknown even to Trevor, he hasn't been able to sleep for an entire year. In the process, he has shed over sixty pounds, making him look like a walking skeleton. After an accident at the factory costs Trevor his job, he finds himself tracking a mysterious figure that may or may not, in fact, provide some answers to his confusion. Meanwhile, he begins to connect with a pretty airport waitress, Marie (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon), who shows Trevor some much-needed sympathy. By the time the film builds to its revelatory conclusion, it becomes quite clear just what has been tormenting Trevor all along.
Anderson and Kosar's vision is brought to spectacular life by cinematographer Xavi Gimenez and composer Roque Banos, whose haunting atmospherics recall the best work of Alfred Hitchcock. And then, of course, there is Bale, whose performance is as terrifying, brave, and devastating as the screen has ever seen.
Anderson and Kosar's vision is brought to spectacular life by cinematographer Xavi Gimenez and composer Roque Banos, whose haunting atmospherics recall the best work of Alfred Hitchcock. And then, of course, there is Bale, whose performance is as terrifying, brave, and devastating as the screen has ever seen.
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