
Tamara Jenkins directs Phillip Seymour Hoffman on the set of The Savages.Photo: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox
I don’t go to a lot of film festivals for reasons I won’t bore you with, but every year I can’t wait to get down to Charlottesville, Virginia, in late October and/or early November. It’s a day or three of low-pressure bliss in one of America’s loveliest college towns in its most beautiful (and allergy-free) season. Last year, I was honored to interview Robert Duvall onstage after a screening of
The Apostle — my favorite film of the nineties, a drama in which the protagonist is at once magnificent and dangerously crazy, and which illuminates both the scary and sublime sides of revival-tent evangelism.
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