Movies

February, 2001

Maggie Greenwald is the best-kept secret in film. Her latest feature, Songcatcher (with Janet McTeer and Aidan Quinn), isn't destined to reach a wide audience. Like her other movies, it isn't flashy or trendy, and there isn't a huge promotional budget behind it. It's simply a great American film.This will come as no surprise to the few who have followed Greenwald's consistent but low-key career. Her compelling gender-bending Western saga, The Ballad of Little Jo, came and went in 1993 but lives...