Tag: Jessica Lange

For a brief time in American cinema, the auteur reigned. No project was too epic in scale, no subject was off-limits, money was readily available…

The bard was not only brilliant at loftier themes like self-awareness, politics and the contemplation of the many forms of love, he could also mash-up horror, sex, violence, torture and cannibalism with the best of them – then and now. And he does it all in iambic pentameter, the playwrights’ equivalent to Ginger Rogers doing everything her partner does, only backwards and in heels.