Last week, Richard Glatzer lost his battle to ALS. His direction of Still Alice leaves behind a legacy of profound importance, not only for the Alzheimer’s community but for all neuro generative diseases:
‘Still Alice’ Co-Director Richard Glatzer Dies
11 March 2015 3:04 PM, PDT | Variety – Film News | See recent Variety – Film News news »
Indie auteur Richard Glatzer, who directed films including “Still Alice” with his husband Wash Westmoreland, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of complications from ALS. He was 62.
Sony Pictures Classics released “Still Alice,” for which Julianne Moore won the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of a woman with Alzheimer’s disease, a depiction which was informed by Glatzer’s progressing struggle with the degenerative disease.
Their first film together was “The Fluffer” about the gay porn industry. Glatzer and Westmoreland also directed 2006’s “Quinceanera,” which won the audience award and the grand jury prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Born in Queens, he grew up on Long Island and in New Jersey. Glatzer started his career working on reality shows before directing the indie “Grief,” about a writer for a trashy TV show, which won the audience award at San Francisco’s Framel
