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James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, business executive, film historian, professor, and director. He is a frequent collaborator of Ang Lee, the co-founder of the production company Good Machine, and the co-founder and former CEO of motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution ...
- Life After Death
- Closing The Gap
- The Embarrassment of Making A Movie
- The Indignation of James Schamus
Speaking to Schamus in the plush basement of Manhattan’s Crosby Street Hotel, almost two years since his seemingly ominous address, he looked like a man reborn, so loose that his signature bowtie threatened to come undone and fall onto his lap. When I first asked him about his remarks in Berlin, he was quick to pick up the thread: “I don’t have to ...
“If you’re in a novel,” Schamus explained, “you can just do a first-person narration, and then the gap between the narration and the narrated events already creates the gap between life and death. But in our medium you just pay some dude to wear some clothes and say shit and then you film it and it’s like ‘There it is!’ There’s no gap. It’s just al...
He suddenly seemed to feel a bit silly, his humility tipping over into humiliation. It’s one thing for a revered industry figure to risk his reputation at a time when others in his position might be contemplating retirement — it’s another for that industry figure to goad fate by using his first movie to tell the story of a guy whose mortification l...
And, really, it’s hard not to think that “Indignation” wasn’t at least partially motivated by the chance for Schamus to deliver a big “fuck you” to the people who had hung him out to dry — hard not to think of it as an act of defiance in the face of an industry that was no longer interested in saving a seat for him at the table. “Fire me from Focus...
Jul 30, 2016 · Long acclaimed as a screenwriter and producer, James Schamus makes his directing debut with an adaptation of a novel by Philip Roth, a quiet, classical period drama about personal identity
- mark.olsen@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Nov 26, 2010 · James Schamus of Focus Features makes the most successful “small” movies around. His secret? Spiking the mainstream with just a touch of weird.
September 7, 1959 · Detroit, Michigan, USA. Mini Bio. James Schamus is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for his collaborations with Taiwanese film director Ang Lee.
- September 7, 1959
I have no doubt that had Shepitko not died tragically at an early age she would have continued to make masterpiece after masterpiece and be considered today one of cinema's greatest artists. Watching The Ascent – her searing study of wartime heroism – is a devastating, transcendent experience.
Oct 3, 2013 · James Schamus Parts Ways With Focus: 4 Films That Defined His Vision. The co-founder gravitated to director-driven films, with a touch more edge and innovation than standard awards-season fare.
