Word: mamet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mamet showed clips from several of his screenplays such as Hoffa, Oleanna, The Untouchables...
...Mamet was a guest of IOP Fellow Fred Zollo who directed the movie version of Oleanna and leads an IOP study group on the subject of "Film and Politics...
...truths of human nature are so various and astounding that I don't have to do any inventing," Mamet said, referring to the inspiration behind his screenplays. "Thank God, because I'm a lazy son-of-a-bitch...
Yesterday David Mamet, a prominent playwright and author of screenplays such as Wag the Dog and Oleanna, spoke to a crowd of approximately 100 people about the philosophy behind his work...
Unvexed by boring details, which usually just compound the implausibility of action movies anyway, we are free to appreciate the sheer stylishness of Ronin. This derives from the counterpoint between Mamet's verbal manner--weary, knowing, elliptical--and director John Frankenheimer's bold visual manner...