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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Armed with optimism, we imagine that Wim Wenders will return to form with Don't Come Knocking, his first collaboration with playwright-actor Sam Shepherd since their Paris, Texas won the Palme d'Or in 1984. Or that there will be a special savor to Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, written by Guillermo Arriaga, of Amores Perros and 21 Grams fame. Or that Broken Flowers, with Jim Jarmusch directing Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone and Tilda Swinton, will launch that indie icon into the movie mainstream. Woody Allen's last film, Melinda Melinda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Diary: Episode LVIII: A New Hope | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

...tradition of Roman ribaldry. It’s similar to the recent Harvard production of the comedist’s “Mostellaria:” the two cover comparable ground of debauchery and deception, although “Forum” captures the spirit of the Roman playwright with a lighter comedic touch. The play’s exaggerated action and sheer silliness lend it a certain tongue-in-cheek tone, which alternately creates and defuses tension each moment...

Author: By Mary A. Brazelton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roman Heist Comedy Finds Music | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

Soyinka, who is a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, has also been a prominent political activist since he was imprisoned in 1967 after appealing in an article for a ceasefire in the Nigerian civil...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureates Honor Wole Soyinka at IOP | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...from tortured Wilson characters like Herald Loomis, the itinerant searching for his wife after spending seven years in bondage in Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Wilson's favorite among his works. But the closing line of that play might just as well apply to a playwright ready for the next leg of his remarkable career: "You shining like new money!" --With reporting by Kate Novack/New York City

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 100 Years in One Life | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

This success, however, occasionally comes at the price of storytelling. Playwright Sharbari Ahmed created a play in which every individual scene works well, but it doesn’t quite mesh. “Raisins, Not Virgins” tells the story of a young New York professional, Muslim by birth but ambivalent about religion, who is pulled in different directions by her pushy yet loving mother, her boyfriend, and his family...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Agenda Hinders Solid Storytelling | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

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