Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two and one-half stars. Rated R. 110 minutes. By Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post In “Indignation,” James Schamus’s adaptation of the 2008 novel by Philip ...
Though he’s been the lead of a (small-ish) franchise, the Percy Jackson movies, earned plenty of indie praise for Perks of Being a Wallflower, and anchored the gritty war drama Fury, actor Logan ...
"Hard-working, coarse-grained, bribe-ridden, semi-xenophobic Irish-Italian-German-Slavic-Jewish-Negro Newark ..." We're back there again, on Philip Roth's old not-so-hallowed home ground, in his new ...
Whether he is pitching a movie, essaying the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer or teaching his Columbia Film Program students Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, writer, producer and now director James Schamus ...
James Schamus has been making movies for as long as Ang Lee has been directing them. The two have penned and produced multiple films together, including Eat Drink Man Woman, The Ice Storm, Lust, ...
The distributor-turned-filmmaker claims the medium is on the way out — but that hasn't stopped him from doing something special with it. “Being dead is not the same thing as not existing — many things ...
Roger Ebert coined the phrase “idiot plot” to describe movies whose shape depends on their heroes making the dumbest possible choice at every juncture. “Indignation,” James Schamus‘ adaptation of ...
“Indignation” tells a story that’s bittersweet, heartbreaking and bleakly comic all at once, and it gets it right. The film marks an impressive directing debut for James Schamus and a glowing showcase ...
It really is quite a resume: Head of the prestigious studio Focus Features for 13 years, an Oscar-nominated producer, screenwriter and even songwriter with an longstanding collaboration with director ...