When I returned home this evening, I found my son George watching -- and clearly enjoying -- David Mamet's Heist on Cinemax. Which reminded me that (a) my son has exceptionally good taste, and (b) no one -- not even Quentin Tarantino -- writes better bad-ass dialogue than Mamet. So, of course, I recommended that George also watch Spartan at his earliest opportunity.
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Showing posts with label David Mamet. Show all posts
Friday, February 20, 2009
David Mamet has the write stuff
When I returned home this evening, I found my son George watching -- and clearly enjoying -- David Mamet's Heist on Cinemax. Which reminded me that (a) my son has exceptionally good taste, and (b) no one -- not even Quentin Tarantino -- writes better bad-ass dialogue than Mamet. So, of course, I recommended that George also watch Spartan at his earliest opportunity.
Friday, March 16, 2007
David Mamet's flick picks
As a guest programmer for Turner Classic Movies, the multi-talented David Mamet has picked four of his favorite flicks -- including Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, which he describes as "the world's greatest film noir" -- for a special March 22 mini-marathon he'll co-host with TCM mainstay Robert Osborne. Warm up your TiVo, if only to record the disparate pair's intro segments: The juxtaposition of gonzo intensity and gracious affability should make for entertaining television.
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