(Tom
Hanks as the Alabama's commanding officer)
Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau are giving
movie lovers a chance to catch some of the multi-Oscar nominated titles.
Captain
Phillips is being shown at Cinema Nouveau at
Gateway, giving audiences an immersive cinema experience to appreciate fully
the emptiness of space and the vastness of the ocean.
The film is a multi-layered examination of
the 2009 hijacking of the US container ship
Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. Through director Paul
Greengrass's distinctive lens it is simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller
and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalisation. The film has
received four Golden Globes nominations and has been nominated in six Academy
Awards® categories, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing –
Adapted Screenplay.
Captain
Phillips focuses on the relationship between the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain
Richard Phillips (played by two time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks), and the
Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi) who has been nominated for an Oscar
for Best Supporting Actor, takes him hostage. Phillips and Muse are set on an
unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed
ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will
find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.
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