May 9th, 2008 · Fresh Air film critic David Edelstein reviews Redbelt, the new martial-arts film written and directed by David Mamet. The film tells the story of a principled martial-arts master who steps into the professional fighting ring to save his business.
May 1st, 2008 · David Mamet hates NPR. Well, he loves it, too. It's a complicated relationship, not unlike those he writes about in his plays, books and movies. Mamet, perhaps best known for the play and movie Glengarry Glen Ross, discusses radio, art and politics.
May 1st, 2008 · Chiwetel Ejiofor plays a martial arts instructor in the new David Mamet film, Redbelt. Before starring in movies, Ejiofor was a prominent stage actor in England. Since then, he has been in such films as Dirty Pretty Things, Children of Men and American Gangster.
Apr 30th, 2008 · You don't want to cross celebrated playwright, screen writer, and film director David Mamet. Although he's 59, he's remarkably fit and an accomplished practitioner of jujitsu. Alex Chadwick visited with him and they talked about his new film, Redbelt.
Apr 22nd, 2008 · Mike Terry, a Jiu-Jitsu teacher who runs a self-defense studio in Los Angeles, is heavily in debt when he is introduced to the world of professional fighting, a place he always avoided, in Redbelt.