With her effervescent personality and “beautiful face of light,” Amy Adams plays a believable ingenue. Yet the thirty-nine-year-old relishes revealing new depths. As a seductive 1970s scam artist in “American Hustle,” for instance, audiences and critics alike delight in her character’s…
The Evolution of David O. Russell
Known for his quirky revamps of genres like screwball comedy, writer-director David O. Russell now has reinvented himself: from an on-set hothead to a filmmaker with a compassionate approach and a golden touch. His own dry spell made filmmaker David…
Christian Bale Dives Into His Characters
Christian Bale has earned a standout reputation as an actor by disappearing thoroughly into his characters, whether by losing weight, learning sleight-of-hand, eating worms, or spending hours with someone to absorb his mannerisms. “I like the idea of movies having…