Sam Mendes’s Directorial Discoveries
For screen and stage, Mendes works like a sculptor—continually molding and remolding space, speech, and gesture, John Lahr writes.
I want to thank Stanley Kubrick for the war room in 'Dr. Strangelove,' Kurosawa for the death of the king at the end of 'Throne of Blood,' Scorsese for panning a camera down an empty corridor in 'Taxi Driver'...