Word: brokeback
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Adam & Steve,” an independent debut film from Craig Chester, is essentially “Brokeback Mountain” for people who don’t like cowboys. Or acting. Or plot...
...wait, “Brokeback Mountain” is still playing at the Loews in Harvard Square. Oops...
Bottom Line: Unless you watch “Love Actually” twice a day, skip “Adam & Steve” and instead buy “Brokeback Mountain?...
...Oscar for Refusal to Kiss Up goes to ANNIE PROULX, 70, on whose 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain was based. After Brokeback lost the Best Picture Oscar to Crash, Proulx wrote a vituperative column in the Guardian, attacking the winning film (which she refers to as Trash), Hollywood types ("somewhat dim"), the awards event ("reminiscent of a small-town talent show" with "an atmosphere of insufferable self-importance") and even innocent bystanders Three 6 Mafia ("an atrocious act"), who won the Oscar for Best Song. She also lays into the Academy ("conservative heffalumps"). Yep, she used the H word. This...
...good thing where movies are right now is that studios that finance independent classic arms are allowing films to get made that five years ago no one would have made. Do you think they would have made Brokeback Mountain 10 years ago? Do you think Capote could have gotten off the ground five years ago? I think that studios are allowing their classic divisions to really take risks. To hire new directors and give new people chances, new writers chances. I think it?s a tremendously powerful revolution...