Lesli Linka Glatter — Movies, Awards & Complete Filmography

The essay

Reading Lesli Linka Glatter

Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.

Why this filmmaker matters

Lesli Linka Glatter has 0 directed films in the Nutevio catalogue. Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series Mad Men and the Showtime series Homeland. For her work in these two shows, she has received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations and seven Directors Guild of America Awardsnominations, winning the latter three times. She has also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for the short film Tales of Meeting and Parting (1985). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lesli Linka Glatter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature style

The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.

Legacy

Glatter set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.