Former liberal David Mamet draws on his trademark intellectual force and vigor to take on the most controversial political issues of our time, from religion to political correctness to global warming.
Former liberal David Mamet draws on his trademark intellectual force and vigor to take on the most controversial political issues of our time, from religion to political correctness to global warming.
Quattro agenti immobiliari di Chicago, Levene, Roma, Moss e il loro supervisore, Williamson, lavorano insieme vendendo proprietà improbabili a prezzi gonfiati. La storia ha inizio nel momento in cui i capi dell'agenzia, Mitch e Murray, lanciano una "gara di vendita": il venditore che ottiene il guadagno più alto vince una Cadillac, mentre i due che ottengono il risultato più basso saranno licenziati. I profitti di ciascuno di loro vengono scri...
In un grande studio cinematografico, chi seleziona veramente le sceneggiature da trasformare in film? Come si sottopone un soggetto a un produttore? In che senso una sceneggiatura assomiglia a un'inserzione da cuori solitari? Quali sono gli ingredienti per una perfetta scena di inseguimento? Come mai nei titoli compaiono così tanti produttori? E soprattutto: cosa diamine fanno, esattamente? In questo libro David Mamet, regista teatrale e cinem...
Drama / Characters: 3 maleScenery: InteriorBest American Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award during the 1976-77 season, this volatile drama starred Robert Duvall in the original Broadway production and has seen revivals with Al Pacino and most recently on Broadway with John Leguizamo in 2008. In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable "Buffalo nickel". Th...
A masterclass on the art of directing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning (and Oscar and Tony-nominated) writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed the Plow, The Verdict, and Wag the DogCalling on his unique perspective as playwright, screenwriter, and director of his own critically acclaimed movies like House of Games, State and Main, and Things Change, David Mamet illuminates how a film comes to be. He looks at every aspect of directing-from script to...
Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching hone...
In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.
One of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. Acting schools, "interpretation, " "sense memory, " "The Method"-David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to undertake auditions and rehearsals, deal with age...