Zero Dark Thirty

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Is Maura Tierney’s Character in The Report Based on the Same CIA Agent Who Inspired Jessica Chastain’s Character in Zero Dark Thirty?

The Report, now streaming on Amazon Prime, includes a morally compromised CIA agent played by Maura Tierney who bears little…

4 years ago
  • Screenwriting

The Politics of Plot: What Liberal or Conservative Architecture is Your Narrative Constructed Upon?

One hears a great deal these days about the universal nature of story. It’s a gratifying conceit that deep down…

8 years ago
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“If I Can Do One More Lost Cause of a Film…” Oliver Stone on Activism

In our Spring issue, we asked Academy-Award winning director Oliver Stone if film can make a difference in vanquishing the…

10 years ago
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Zero Dark Thirty, Upstream Color, and the Agony of Anticipation

The Tortuous Torture Debate The "debate" over the depiction of torture in one of my favorite movies of the year,…

11 years ago