Billy Wilder directed Buddy Buddy, a comedy based on Francis Veber’s play Le contrat and Édouard Molinaro’s film L’emmerdeur.
Glengarry Glen Ross: Screen Version of David Mamet, Starring Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino
January 25, 2006 by
This year is particularly good for David Mamet. His successful screen adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Glengarry Glen Ross, starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino, is touted as a serious contender for the Oscar Award. Mamet has also written the screenplay for the biopicture Hoffa, starring Jack Nicholson, which will open in December. His new Off Broadway work, Oleanna, a two-character play which promises to be a meditation on the political and sexual warfare, is now previewing in New York.