Not at the beginning of this week James Foleyaccording to his family to Hollywood Reporter. The 71 -year -old director died “placidly while sleeping, after a fight of years against A brain cancer”.
It is unknown when he was diagnosed or how much the disease had lasted, dating his last work in the late last decade. For years Foley had remained from the cinema, but in 2017 he made a surprising return as a relay of Sam Taylor-Johnson To direct the sequels of Fifty Gray Shadows.
Long before this Foley had managed to start directing after a stroke of luck in his last year studying cinema in Los Angeles. It was when he fortuitously met Hal Ashbyhero of New Hollywoodand this facilitated the opportunity to direct his first film in 1984.
It was titled Reckless rebelsstarring Daryl Hannah y Aidan quinn He already demonstrated Foley’s interest in thrillerthe more domestic and claustrophobic the better. Shortly after he would cross the path of Madonna and would initiate a profitable collaboration with her.
In the 80s Foley directed video clips as True Blood and documentaries focused on their tours, style The Virgin Tour. Thus consolidated its importance in the industry, and after making a new thriller con Sean Penn y Christopher Walken (Men face to face), it was he who understandably was responsible for directing a film starring Madonna. Who is this girl? He also owed his title to the homonymous song, Who’s that girl?, whose video clip had also directed Foley.
-Entered the 90s and after directing some episode of Twin Peaks Foley signed his best -known film. Glengarry Glen Ross (success at any price) It was based on a story by David Mamet to recreate the adventures of a handful of real estate agents on the verge of collapse. His cast was spectacular: To the Pacino (which achieved a nomination to Oscar), Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin y Kevin Spacey.
Shortly after he directed Obsessive passion con Mark Wahlberg y Reese Witherspoonand during the same 1996 he also worked with Chris O’Donnell y Gene Hackman to Sealed camera. In 1999 he repeated with Wahlberg for The corruptor (He also headed Chow Yun-Fat) and kept his attachment to the thriller with Seducing a stranger. This film premiered in 2007 and was a real headache for Foley, so that from then on he wanted to devote himself to television.
Foley worked thereafter in series as Hannibal, Wayward Pines, Billions o House of Cardswhere he met with the actor of Glengarry Glen Ross Kevin Spacey (here came to direct 12 episodes). In 2017 he returned to the cinema to direct the two sequels of Fifty Gray Shadows con Dakota Johnson y Jamie Dornantitled Fifty darkest shadows y Fifty shadows released.
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