All Is Lost (2013)
Trivia
The film's script is nearly dialogue-free and only 32 pages long.
This is the only movie in the 100-plus year history of international filmmaking that has only one actor and one writer/director but eleven executive producers as well as six other producers of varied titles.
Chandor wrote the film with Redford specifically in mind.
All Is Lost is Chandor's in his sophomore effort, following his 2011 feature film debut Margin Call.
Principal photography began in mid-2012 at Baja Studios in Rosarito Beach in Mexico. Baja Studios was originally built for the 1997 film Titanic. Filming took place for two months in the location's water tank.
At a press conference after the film's screening at Cannes 2013, Redford revealed that his ear was damaged during the production.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Trivia
This purported nonfiction story, based on a memoir written in 1853, was also the source for the 1984 made-for-TV movie, American Playhouse: Solomon Northup's Odyssey, which starred Avery Brooks.
This is the third film collaboration of Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt. They previously both appeared in Inglourious Basterds and The Counselor.
Taran Killam often impersonates Brad Pitt on Saturday Night Live. Though both actors appear in this film, they never met nor worked together in it. Pitt's Plan B company produced the movie, and Pitt's role was only a small one.
This movie marks the reuniting of Dwight Henry and Quvenzhané Wallis, both from Louisiana, where the film was shot, who had been acclaimed just months before for their first acting roles when they costarred in Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Of the seven titles directed by Steve McQueen through July 2013, this movie is the first which does not have a one-word title.
