Showing posts with label James Foley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Foley. Show all posts

Sunday, December 28, 2025

Born on this day – James Foley:


James Foley


Director

Writer

Producer

December 28, 1953 – May 8, 2025

Credits:

After Dark, My Sweet (1990); Anatomy of a Scene (2003); Arbitrage (2012); At Close Range (1986); Billions (2016); Chow Yun-Fat Goes Hollywood (2001); Confidence (2003); Dark and Deadly: 50 Years of Film Noir (1995); De película (1987); Deep Purple: King of Dreams (1990); Fear (1996); Fifty Shades Darker (2017); Fifty Shades Freed (2018); From the (Under)Ground Up: The Making of 'The Corruptor' (1999); Glengarry Glen Ross (1992); Gun (1997); Hannibal (2013); Hollywood Division (2004); House of Cards (2013–2015); House of Cards: Backstage Politics on the Set of House of Cards (2015); House of Cards: Line of Succession (2014); House of Cards: Politics for the Sake of Politics (2014); James Foley, à bout portant (2018); James Foley, Lumière sur un film noir (2021); Lunch Therapy (2021); Madonna Live: The Virgin Tour (1985); Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (2009); Madonna: Dress You Up (1985); Madonna: Live to Tell (1986); Madonna: Papa Don't Preach (1986); Madonna: The Immaculate Collection (1990); Madonna: The Look of Love (1987); Madonna: The Woman Behind the Brand (2011); Madonna: True Blue (1986); Madonna: Who's That Girl (1987); Magic Time: A Tribute to Jack Lemmon (2002); Marky Mark: Hey DJ (1996); Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery (2013); Perfect Stranger (2007); Reckless (1984); Red Zone (2014); Reel Talent (2007); The Bannen Way (2010); The Chamber (1996); The Corruptor (1999); The Moment with Brian Koppelman (2015); Twin Peaks (1991); Two Bits (1995); Virtual Lives: The Making of 'Perfect Stranger' (2007); Warren (2014); Wayward Pines (2015); Who's That Girl (1987).

Thursday, October 2, 2025

On this day in movie history - Glengarry Glen Ross (1992 movie & play):


Glengarry Glen Ross

directed by James Foley,
written by David Mamet,
based on the play by David Mamet,
was released in the United States on October 2, 1992.
Music by James Newton Howard.


Cast:

Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce, Bruce Altman, Jude Ciccolella, Paul Butler, Lori Tan Chinn, Neal Jones, Barry Rohrssen, Leigh French, George Cheung, Murphy Dunne, Dana Lee, Julie Payne, Gregory Snegoff, Skipp Lynch.

Recommended reading:


Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

By David Mamet.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984.

Published by Grove Press.
First published 1983.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0802130917
ISBN-13: 978-0802130914

Description:

Comic Drama Characters: 7 males.

2 interior sets.

“Who needs caffeine when you’ve got Glengarry Glen Ross? … David Mamet’s play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office in Chicago feels like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream…. Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still surpassed by any other dramatist.” – New York Times.

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the most celebrated and widely performed plays of recent years. It is a scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here, Mamet is at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough people who cajole, connive, wheel and deal for a piece of the action an existence where closing a sale can mean a brand-new Cadillac, but losing one can mean losing it everything.

Wonderfully funny … a play to see, remember and cherish.” – New York Post.