How many great films does it take to designate a director as a historically significant auteur? Jean Vigo only directed a few shorts and one feature, but they were enough to make him a hero to the pioneers of the French New Wave. Actor-turned-helmer Charles Laughton directed just one movie — “The Night of the Hunter” — but it was such a haunting and singular masterpiece that few would argue that Laughton was one of the medium’s masters. Elaine May stopped directing after four movies, but she’d probably be considered one of the greatest directors who ever lived if she had only made “Mikey and Nicky.”
Christina Hornisher is nowhere near as well known as Vigo, Laughton, or May, but she should be — and now, thanks to a pristine restoration of her sole feature, “Hollywood 90028,” perhaps she will. Released in 1974 after Hornisher earned critical accolades for her UCLA film school shorts,...
Christina Hornisher is nowhere near as well known as Vigo, Laughton, or May, but she should be — and now, thanks to a pristine restoration of her sole feature, “Hollywood 90028,” perhaps she will. Released in 1974 after Hornisher earned critical accolades for her UCLA film school shorts,...
- 4/8/2024
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
In her job as casting director for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Erica Daniels not only plays matchmaker -- coming up with just the right actor to embody a particular character -- she also acts as a sort of theatrical den mother. "You're dealing with people with emotional needs, creative needs and wants; you're massaging a lot of personalities," says Daniels, who -- apart from the passing intern or apprentice -- constitutes the theatre's entire casting department. It's no small job. In the case of a large-cast play making its world premiere -- Tracy Letts' Pulitzer- and Tony-winning August: Osage County, for instance -- the stakes would seem particularly high. After all, the actor who first enacts a role could set the standard for future incarnations. The re-imagining of a classic drama, meanwhile, presents its own casting challenges. This fall, Daniels worked with director Tina Landau on William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
- 1/8/2009
- by Mark Dundas Wood
- backstage.com
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