Elaine May to direct again?

Vanity Fair is enthusing that 87-year-old Elaine May is set direct a new movie called Crackpot. 

I've seen three or four of her movies and they were good. I saw Walter Matthau in an interview somewhere about A New Leaf say that the results were good, but she was a terrible director. She was disorganized and always behind. Her movies have all gone way over budget. At one point, while filming Ishtar, she spent two days filming countless retakes of a single scene that wasn't important to the movie. She never told Beatty and Hoffman what she wanted them to do different. They just spent days wasting film.

On Mikey & Nicky, she kept the camera rolling after the scene ended. The actors left the set to go down the street to a convenience store. The camera operator said "cut" and stopped the camera and May was angry at him. She wanted the camera to keep running.

He pointed out that the actors had left.

"They might come back!" she reasoned.

Maybe at this age, she'll be lower energy and not do things like that.

But, what do I care. Warren Beatty was angry over the press coverage of the making of Ishtar. Sure, they wasted millions, but that didn't affect the public and it shouldn't have had anything to do with critical response.

It's like the time Bryan Singer directed some comic book movie. I was slightly acquainted online with a devout ultra-right-wing Christian who was enthusing over the movie even though Singer was, at that point, accused of sexually assaulting teenage boys. Was that movie fan an amoral monster who cared nothing about sex crimes against children as long as he got to see another idiotic super hero movie, or was he a bigger man than I was, willing to separate the art from the artist, judging an artistic work by the work itself, not by the monstrous sex crimes committed by the director.