Acting on an urge to be the director

Tony Goldwyn (right) between scenes with the actor Sam Rockwell in Goldwyn’s latest directorial effort, “Conviction.’’ (Ron Batzdorff/Fox Searchlight Pictures)

By Christopher Wallenberg

Globe Correspondent / September 5, 2010

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The history of Hollywood filmmaking is littered with bloated movie-star-turned-director self-indulgence: Marlon Brando’s “One-Eyed Jacks’’ (in which Brando fired the film’s original director, a guy named Stanley Kubrick), Kevin Costner’s ponderous “Dances With Wolves’’ (which inexplicably won seven Oscars), and most of the filmmaking oeuvre of Mel Gibson. (Full article: 1520 words)