PHONE BOOTH
Absurdly set in some pre-cell-phone universe, ]]>Phone Booth]]> is best appreciated as hilarious pulp metaphor, which, not coincidentally, happens to be one of the screenwriter’s specialties. Could Camus or Sartre have imagined a scenario in which the antihero is acting – under threat of death – according to the enigmatic instructions of a voice that only he can hear even while a convenient display window filled with television sets broadcasts his plight to the world? Still, it’s a pity that Larry Cohen, whose topical tabloid worldview makes him one of America’s last abstract sensationalists, didn’t direct his own script. (Jim Hoberman)
]]>Phone Booth]]> will be screened together with The Telephone Book.
- Colin Farrell - Stu Shepard
- Kiefer Sutherland - Sniper
- Forest Whitaker - Captain Ed Ramey
- Radha Mitchell - Kelly Shepard
- Katie Holmes - Pamela McFadden
- Larry Cohen
- Matthew Libatique
- Laura Macias
- Sean Rowe
- Mark Stevens
- Harry Gregson-Williams
- Andrew Laws
- Daniel Orlandi