Stephen Gurewitz is an American

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

, and

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film which increasingly involves the use of digital technology. The film edit ...

. He is best known as part of the 2010s American indie cinema movement with his breakthrough work ''

Marvin, Seth and Stanley ''Marvin, Seth and Stanley'' is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Gurewitz, starring Alex Karpovsky, Gurewitz and Gurewitz's father Marvin Gurewitz. Cast * Alex Karpovsky as Seth Greenstein * Stephen Gurewitz as Stanley Green ...

'' also starring '' Girls'' co-star Alex Karpovsky. In his review for ''The New York Times'', critic Neil Genzlinger concluded "we never do get to know Marvin or Stanley very well." In his review for ''The New Yorker'', critic Richard Brody deemed the picture "not to be missed" and said of Gurewitz's performance that it "brings the torment of quiet desperation and the pride of frustration to life with great humanity." On May 18, 2015, Gurewitz revealed on Twitter that

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will be playing poet

William Blake William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. ...

, in Gurewitz's forthcoming

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-based romancedy. Gurewitz is a noted antiquer. His

physiognomical Physiognomy (from the Greek , , meaning "nature", and , meaning "judge" or "interpreter") is the practice of assessing a person's character or personality from their outer appearance—especially the face. The term can also refer to the general ...

resemblance to

Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama ''Mystic River'' (2003) and the biopic ''Milk'' (2008). Penn began his acting career in televisi ...

has also been noted.

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