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Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She co-wrote the screenplay and directed American Psycho, The Notorious Bettie Page, and I Shot Andy Warhol.
Apr 22, 2020 · In adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s turgid, gory 1991 novel to the screen, the director Mary Harron has boiled a bloated stew of brand names and butchery into a lean and mean horror comedy classic.
- Lila Shapiro
- Features Writer
Jun 11, 2020 · Mary Harron, the director best known for films such as American Psycho and Killing Andy Warho l, recently spent three days leading master classes and sharing her filmmaking process with New School students as the School of Media Studies Summer 2020 Dorothy H. Hirshon Director in Residence.
- Justin Morrow
- A great performance is "entirely casting" Harron is known for getting great performances from her actors, starting with her first feature, 1996's indie I Shot Andy Warhol, starring Lili Taylor as real-life would be assassin Valerie Solanas, and, perhaps most famously, Christian's Bale's turn as the blank slate yuppie murderer Patrick Bateman in her at the time super controversial, though now classic, bravura adaptation of the 'unfilmable' novel American Psycho.
- "Pace it up" and "set the tone" Harron said that her most frequent direction, by far, to actors, was to "pace it up" (go faster), saying that it could be "hard for actors to judge" their pacing, and that this was doubly true when the actor had an accent or dialect to do.
- Research grounds fiction in reality. Harron's latest project, Alias Grace (adapted by actress Sarah Polley), is a six-episode miniseries based on Margaret Atwood's 1996 novel about a notorious murder case in 19th century Canada for which two servants in an upper-middle class family were tried and convicted.
May 10, 2015 · Following American Psycho, she directed The Moth Diaries, a horror set in a boarding school and then television with acclaimed dramas including, The L-Word and Six Feet Under. As a female director – something which is frustratingly still an anomaly in Hollywood – she has to be flexible.
American psycho Director Mary Harron named the School of media studies at the new School's Fall 2020 artist in residence.
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Mary Harron (born January 12, 1953) is a Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. She gained recognition for her role in writing and directing several independent films, including I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), American Psycho (2000), and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005).
