Recently, though, his fortunes seemed to have slid � his last two films were the outlandish 1997 spy thriller The Saint and the dreary 1999 serial killer movie The Bone Collector. This year, lightning has struck twice for the guy, as he�s turned out two excellent movies, the Oscar-nominated The Quiet American and the relatively unheralded but scarcely less accomplished Rabbit-Proof Fence. These films, which are quite different from each other, together constitute one of the more remarkable artistic resurrections of a filmmaker in recent memory.