Check out all of the posts tagged with "mathematician".
Topol is an unexpected choice as the 17th-century Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, but, in an intense, dignified star turn, he earns his inclusion in Joseph Losey’s 1975 historical biographical drama film Galileo. Thanks to the […]
Director David Greene’s intriguing 1968 British film Sebastian [Mr Sebastian] stars Dirk Bogarde, who gives a polished, assured performance as the Oxford mathematician don of the title, along with Susannah York, who is lively and […]
Debut screenwriter Graham Moore fashions an enjoyable, popular screenplay out of Andrew Hodges‘s book about legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, and director Morten Tyldum makes a crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned entertainment out of it. Turing joins the team of code-breakers at Britain’s […]
Sean Penn plays a dying mathematician in dire need of a heart transplant, Naomi Watts is a mother mourning the death of her family, Benicio Del Del Toro is a born-again convict, out of jail […]
‘Only God is perfect.’ There are not many true cinema originals – but writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s brilliantly weird 1998 mystical fantasy thriller is certainly one. This highly imaginative, head-banging film, with its startling black and […]
Please use the navigation to move within this section.