A new James Bond movie opens this week, 50 years after the first film, Dr. No.
The latest installment, Skyfall, finds Daniel Craig once again in 007’s perfectly tailored suit. And this time, Bond is battling both the bad guys and his own mortality.
Skyfall is directed by an English theater veteran, albeit a young one. Sam Mendes was a boy wonder of that scene in the late ’80s, directing Judi Dench in The Cherry Orchard when he was just 24. He staged a much-acclaimed revival of Cabaret, first in London and then on Broadway. And his first feature film, American Beauty, won him a Best Director Oscar.
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