Now, Margin Call seems anything but marginal. The movie opens with a chilling vision ... Sponsor Message These aren't sympathetic people, yet writer-director J.C. Chandor does build some sympathy ...

As investors left the housing market in the run-up to the meltdown, Wall Street sliced up and repackaged troubled assets based on those shaky mortgages, often buying those new packages themselves.

The 37-year-old writer and director used the financial crisis as a springboard to create the most insightful Wall Street movie ever filmed. Margin Call captures a day in the life of a Lehman ...

The cast is uniformly and uncommonly good, even by their generally lofty standards Among the many virtues of Margin Call, the engrossing debut feature by writer-director J.C. Chandor, is its ...

Writer-director J.C. Chandor landed a breakthrough flick with 2011's Margin Call. Chandor picked up ... it's not easy to make a movie where a single actor is stranded in the middle of the ...

‘Margin Call,’ a film that opens in theaters ... essentially worthless assets. The director of the film, J.C. Chandor, drew on his own experiences to build the story’s narrative and ...

Writer-director J.C. Chandor then ... or entirely accurate — it is, like “Margin Call,” as uncomfortably provocative as it is bracing. Film critic Lisa Kennedy: 303-954-1567 or lkennedy@ ...

2011 “MARGIN CALL,” “CIRCUMSTANCE” BOOKEND 40th NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS In a release sent out today the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the full lineup for the ...

First-time feature writer/director J.C. Chandor has a no-frills style, and it's pleasant to watch the cast do some low-key verbal jousting. If only the movie weren't also so monologue-choked ...

But Margin Call is a contender for best Wall Street ... Maybe it needs to be a bit more serious'" Director of new Bambi horror movie described as an "R-rated Jurassic Park" thinks it's "more ...

Unlikely to be either the tea party or Occupy America's first pick for best film of the year, Margin Call is nevertheless ... It's not that director Chandor, in this assured feature debut, is ...