Stephen Schiff

Stephen Schiff is a screenwriter whose work includes Lolita, True Crime, Unfaithful, and Leatherheads (the latter two uncredited). A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Distinguished Criticism, Schiff was a staff writer at The New Yorker for nine years and was Vanity Fair’s critic-at-large. He has also been film critic of National Public Radio's Fresh Air, The Atlantic, and Glamour; a correspondent on CBS-TV's West 57th; and a contributor to The New York Times.

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Ralph Fiennes is a stunningly versatile sufferer. You can see him suffer coolly and quietly throughout The Reader, but if you want to see him rage and seethe and explode and implode, get yourself over to London’s National Theatre and watch him hurtle heroically through Jonathan Kent’s production of Sophocles’s Oedipus. In a swift hundred minutes, Fiennes zooms from proud disdain to pitiable (and terrifying) self-demolition; in between, he dances sensually with his business-suited Greek chorus and crumbles in fear beside his wife/mother, Jocasta, sturdily played by Clare Higgins – all on a viciously raked stage that slowly revolves under his feet, as treacherous as fate.

12:31 pm, Dec 15, 2008

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