Neil LaBute
- Sceneggiatura
- 19 marzo 1963 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biografia
Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, and screenwriter. He is best known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. LaBute created the TV series Billy & Billie, writing and directing all of the episodes. He is also the creator of the TV series Van Helsing. Critics have responded to his plays as having a misanthropic tone. Rob Weinert-Kendt in The Village Voice referred to LaBute as "American theater's reigning misanthrope". The New York Times said that critics labeled him a misanthrope on the release of his film Your Friends & Neighbors because of the film's strong misanthropic plot and characters. Britain's Independent newspaper in May 2008 dubbed him "America's misanthrope par excellence". Citing the misanthropic tone of the plot in the films In the Company of Men, Your Friends & Neighbors and The Shape of Things, film critic Daniel Kimmel identified a pattern running through LaBute's work of being that the unlikeable, main antagonists of those three films end up getting away with their lying, scheming and mis-deeds, coming out on top of all the other characters as the real winners of those stories by quoting: "Neil LaBute is a misanthrope who assumes that only callous and evil people, who use and abuse others, can survive in this world."
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Filmografia
- Murderous · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Fear the Night · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- The Shape of Things · Sceneggiatura
- House of Darkness · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Il fuoco del peccato · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Sparring Partner · Sceneggiatura
- Berlin, I Love You · Sceneggiatura
- The I-Land · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Black Chicks · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- 10 K · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Good Luck: In Farsi · Sceneggiatura
- Van Helsing · Sceneggiatura, Produzione esecutiva
- The Mulberry Bush · Sceneggiatura, Regia
- Billions · Regia
- Middle of the Night · Sceneggiatura
- Dirty Weekend · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Billy & Billie · Ideazione
- It's Okay · Sceneggiatura
- Velvet - Il prezzo dell'amore · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Full Circle · Ideazione
- Some Girl(s) · Theatre Play, Sceneggiatura
- Current Events · Sceneggiatura
- Double or Nothing · Sceneggiatura
- Stars in Shorts · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Denise · Sceneggiatura
- BFF · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- I Melt with You · Produzione esecutiva
- Hell on Wheels · Regia
- Sweet Nothings · Sceneggiatura
- After-School Special · Sceneggiatura
- Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic · In persona
- Sexting · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Il funerale è servito · Regia
- Heavy Rain · In persona, Regia
- The Vicious Kind · Produzione esecutiva
- Cleanflix · In persona
- Welcome to Lakeview Terrace: Behind the Scenes · In persona
- La terrazza sul lago · Regia
- Tumble · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Il prescelto · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- The Shape of Things · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Possession - Una storia romantica · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Bash: Latter-Day Plays · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Betty Love · Regia
- Amici & vicini · Regia, Sceneggiatura
- Independent's Day · In persona
- Nella società degli uomini · Regia, Theatre Play
- High School Spirits · Kyle Skudstad
- The South Bank Show
- Tour de France · Sceneggiatura
- This Is How It Goes · Romanzo