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Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer on 'Still Alice'
Julianne Moore is in Oscar contention for playing a woman struggling with Alzheimer's in Still Alice. The film was directed by a married couple with their own story of battling a debilitating disease.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenFilmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland are a married couple who co-wrote and directed Still Alice, a film that has put Julianne Moore in the Oscar race for her performance as a woman struggling with early-onset Alzheimer's. Glatzer was on the set despite his own diagnosis of ALS, which has left him unable to speak without the help of an iPad. Westmoreland and Glatzer share their journey from small-time indie filmmakers to the major awards circuit, and talk about how they've managed to continue to make films together even as their lives have changed dramatically.
Photo: Wash Westmoreland and Julianne Moore (Jojo Whilden, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
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Critics have lamented a shortage of great roles for women in the past year, but one of the standouts has been the now Oscar-nominated Julianne Moore in Still Alice , a film about a linguistics professor struggling with early-onset Alzheimer's.
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