Category: David Mamet

Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Spanish Prisoner’: Director David Mamet’s 1998 Genteel Crime Thriller

PG | 1h 52min | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6 October 1998 (USA) With a style so unique it has its own name (“Mamet-Speak”), playwright-turned-screenwriter-turned-director David Mamet is best known for his barbed, machine gun dialogue, adorned with thickets of carefully positioned profanity. Although many Mamet-written movies feature women characters, rarely are they the leads. His strength lies is in…


Bridges to Transcendence: The Arts, Liberty, and the Soul

In “Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch,” playwright David Mamet attacks the “virus of conformity” that he now sees as rampant in Western culture. As the blurb on the book’s flyleaf states: “‘Recessional’ is a vital warning that if we don’t confront the cultural thuggery now, the commissars…