Friday, May 18, 2012 11:46AM - By Jaime Lopez
Years ago, ScreenCrave contributor Jaime Lopez privately began tackling Roger Ebert’s “Greatest Films” list, an ever-expanding monolith of celluloid currently comprised of 354 films. With 260 under his belt and less than 100 films left to go, Lopez has set himself to put these remaining films’ “Greatness” to the test–reviewing both the movies themselves and Ebert’s response. This week, he takes on David Mamet’s House of Games.
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Friday, October 8, 2010 4:29PM - By Krystal Clark
After his award winning performance in You Don’t Know Jack, Al Pacino has found a new shtick. It appears that the Academy Award winner has a thing for biopics. According to Deadline, he’s moving on from playing serial killers with medical licenses to gun toting record executives, a la Phil Spector.
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Friday, September 25, 2009 2:21PM - By Laura Aguirre
The witty David Mamet has been rejected. A couple of weeks after the Pulitzer prize winning screenwriter decided to take on Anne Frank — something unlike his other works — Disney has put his script in turnaround because of its dark flaws, reports The Wrap.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:55AM - By Mali Elfman
David Mamet, the quick talking, witty writer/director has decided to take on something new, the Holocaust – and more to the point, one of the most famous people to come out of the Holocaust, Anne Frank.
When I think I Mamet I think of the Pulitzer prize winning screenwriter who came up with “steak knives” for Glengarry Glen Ross and “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow” for Wag the Dog, I don’t immediately jump to one of the most haunting and beautiful stories from WWII.
That being said, the writer/director has bought the writes to the new rendition of “The Diary of Anne Frank” and plans to writer and direct the film…
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