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...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...
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...
...quite openly acknowledges the abstract state at which the action film has arrived. The title is the Japanese word for samurai who have lost their master and must hire themselves out as amoral and dispassionate mercenaries. The script, by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard and Natascha McElhone, all enigmatic and excellent--in expensive...
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...
...spent five years getting radio and TV scripts rejected before two of his short radio plays were produced in Australia. He turned to theater largely because he thought he could do better than the "really dull" stuff he found on the British stage at the time. Aside from David Mamet's American Buffalo (his favorite play), McDonagh cites filmmakers like Martin Scorsese and Terence Malick as his chief influences. This has made him something of a renegade in the London theater world. So have incidents like the row he got into at a 1996 awards ceremony, when...