CINEMA OF SEAN PENN

Although best known as an Academy Award winning actor, Penn's directorial works The Indian Runner, The Crossing Guard, The Pledge, a nd Into the Wild, consist of some of the most interesting and singular films made in the United States over the past twenty years. E ach of Penn's films and much of the cinema he has acted in are set in an immediate past in which a stalled time and a restricted loc ale apply narrative constraints. These films all feature a sophisticated web of intertextual relations, involving actors, songs, boo ks, film...[Read more]