Spotlight offers what it calls "groundbreaking films by new stars and master directors".
Now, at age 70, he is undertaking another bold venture, one that follows the trend in recent decades of marathon productions by master directors.
But alongside the Brits, both producers like to associate themselves to authentic American master directors too, and Rudin has had more success there than Weinstein.
And on Nov. 25 Fox releases one of the year's most eagerly anticipated sets: restored versions of films by the master directors F. W. Murnau and Frank Borzage.
It was Tonino Guerra's fate to become the scriptwriter of choice for a string of master directors whose status as auteurs – "authors" of their films – tended to diminish the status of the writers involved.
Like them, he achieved the invisible technique that only master directors do, and he used that technique to erase the barriers between the audience and the people on screen, even the most appalling of them.
