Oscar Isaac is an American film and television actor, musician and singer of Guatemalan and Cuban descent. He's a graduate from the Juilliard School in New York City, USA, and starred in feature films such as Inside Llewyn Davis, directed by the Coen Brothers, the science fiction thriller Ex Machina, the Star Wars franchise films Episode VII - The Force Awakens and Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, and as the mutant supervillain Apocalypse in the ninth X-Men film X-Men: Apocalypse.
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.
Recounts the story of fledgling writer Samuel Liston and his experiences with Floyd Deveraux, the enigmatic, middle-aged father of two who enlists Samuel to write his biography.
For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a two-time Oscar winner. Kaminski used these lines as inspiration to create 11 original (very) short films. Each short evokes a style or genre of the cinematic past and stars an actor who gave an especially memorable performance in 2013.