AFI Master Class: The Art of Collaboration – David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg
A collaboration between TCM and the American Film Institute, on August 25 at 8.30pm AEST, TCM screens AFI Master Class: The Art of Collaboration (rated M) focusing on the multiple-film creative partnership of David O. Russell and Mark Wahlberg.
Actor/producer Mark Wahlberg and director/writer/producer David O. Russell discuss their collaborations in front of an audience of AFI fellowsstudying filmmaking at the AFI Conservatory in Hollywood. Their work includes the Iraq-set drama Three Kings (1999), which co-starred Wahlberg, George Clooney and Ice Cube and The Fighter (2010), with Wahlberg, Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. This one-hour special is packed with clips from both men’s careers, as well as from movies that have inspired them, including It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957).