With a hangdog face unforgettable from such films as “Fargo” and “Boogie Nights” — and easily one of his generation’s most gifted character actors — William H.
Macy made his feature directing debut some 30 years ago with a savvy TV-news parody called “Lip Service” for HBO.
For some reason, it wasn’t until starring in (and eventually directing an episode of) Showtime’s “Shameless” that he picked up the habit again in earnest.
The question, now that Macy appears to be stepping behind the camera with some regularity, is what it is about these curious projects that compels him.Take “Krystal,” a uniquely bizarre, uncomfortably sexist “Pretty Woman”-meets-“Pretty in Pink” hybrid that comes across as if Tennessee Williams had been commissioned to write a John Hughes-style wish-fulfillment fantasy.
Though Macy is an odd fit to direct (coming at the talky script like it was a madcap piece of theater
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