Writer-Director Todd Field hasn’t made a film since “Little Children” (2006) and, before that, his incendiary debut “In the Bedroom” (2001). Whatever happened to him since 2006 is a mystery to me. Both films garnered eight Oscar nominations in total, he was heralded as a major new voice and then poof he was gone. What happened? I’m not sure. Something did. Either he was blackballed in the industry, for some reason, or, more realistically, he just had projects falling by the wayside due to the changing dynamics of the studio system ever since 2008’s “Iron Man” and “The Dark Knight” hit pay dirt and reshaped the way Hollywood thinks.
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