Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Three rite-of-passage movies are vying for attention this week at a moment when the rewards of maturity seem to be offering more gratification than the agonies of youth.
Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes and James Gray have delivered candid and poignant coming-of-age dramas dealing with broken marriages, mental health traumas and unwitting encounters with racial inequities, respectively.
Each is a survival story: A key element of the healing process was the influence of movies – a welcome message at a time when movies are enduring a rite of passage of their own.
The films’ timing carries a certain cultural irony: With losses and layoffs wreaking headlines in the tech economy, this has been a perilous week for those coping with younger superstars named Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Bankman-Fried.
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