The Iranian-British Hossein Amini received an Academy Award nomination for his 1997 screenplay adaptation of Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove and wrote the screenplays for Jude (1995), The Four Feathers (2002), and Drive (2011). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with The Two Faces of January, adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith and starring Viggo Mortensen. He writes, “I have been cherishing the films on the Criterion list for years and own a good many of them. I had to resort to mild cheating in the end, slipping in a few extra films under the guise of talking about their directors. Hopefully no one will mind.”
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