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Top Ten Working American Directors

7 October 2009 2:18 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Top Ten Working American Directors

A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American films. So there. I said it.

Yet, how do you weigh the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, a genius who delivered some of the all-time greatest films, but fizzled out 25 or so years ago, against a filmmaker like Woody Allen who has worked consistently for decades churning out both brilliant gems and disposable time wasters? How do you compare either of these directors against an auteur such as Spike Jonze who has only opened two films so far, but both are masterpieces?

In the end I just went with my gut. I knew there were »

- David Frank

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Anthony Mackie is Bewitched On Stage, Bothered On Screen

29 August 2009 10:30 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

If you happen to be in NY this weekend, this is your last chance to see the latest free Shakespeare in the Park production, Euripides' The Bacchae. (Common wisdom says these free shows are always sold out but I had no trouble getting in so try it, especially if it's wet outside) The greek tragedy plays like a slightly gender-fucked avant garde musical in this particular production. I had seen it once before 13 years ago and the only thing I remembered about it was the absolutely sick gory finale. It's still disgustingly bloody.

Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening) goes for a smeared lipstick rock god style Dionysys. His nonbeliever victim is none other than familiar screen actor Anthony Mackie.

One could argue that both actors are having a great summer. See also: Taking Woodstock (Groff) and The Hurt Locker (Mackie).

I know I haven't given The Hurt Locker enough play this summer at the blog. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Hurt Locker Surely Helped in Anthony Mackie's Career 'Adjustment'

18 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- I don't know about you, but I get the impression that Anthony Mackie just sort of appears in key roles and then we lose sight of him. I have a vivid good impression of the actor with his takes on Spike Lee clunker She Hate Me and his supporting bit in Half Nelson and was glad to see play the jaded, mentally worn out Sergeant Jt Sanborn role in one of the best pictures of the year in The Hurt Locker. Everything in between is a blur. Variety reports that he might have parlayed that perf into a supporting role in the Philip K. Dick 1954 short story ("Adjustment Team") that Universal is planning to start film The Adjustment Bureau in Bloomberg's New York in a matter of weeks.  Nolfi wrote the script and directs the project that will see Matt Damon play a charismatic congressman who seems destined for national political stardom. »

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2009 | 2008 | 2004

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