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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film progresses, the initially creative cinematography becomes tacky and ostentatious while the excitement of the storyline wanes exponentially. Ultimately, “Blindness,” based on Portuguese Nobel laureate José Saramago’s novel by the same name, falters heavily with its messy screenplay and dull performances. In “Blindness,” a mysterious plague of contagious blindness creates chaos in an unnamed city. Those first afflicted by the disease are quarantined in a grimy and unstaffed medical facility. Julianne Moore plays the wife of an eye doctor infected by the plague...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Blindness | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

Absolutely. They're my homies, as you say here. Nick and I have written a screenplay together. It's a road movie that follows two comic-book geeks, starting out at Comic-Con and then moving to the Midwest, where they get into a craaazy adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Simon Pegg | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...part, McBride, who also wrote the screenplay, took a more conciliatory approach at Monday's press conference. "I am very sorry if I have offended the partisans. I have enormous respect for them," he said. "As a black American, we understand what it's like for someone to tell your history, and they are not you. But unfortunately, the history of World War II here in Italy is ours as well, and this was the best I could do." In the words of the screenwriter and the director, one can see the difference between a peacemaker and a warrior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee vs. the Italian Resistance | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...friends were snapped up by i-banking firms, we shrugged and tried to look unconcerned. They might soon be raking in the dough. But we’d just written a screenplay about love among the sea-monkeys. Surely that counted for more in the cosmic balance than a plum internship at Lehman Brothers! Or so we muttered to ourselves as we curled up on our low thread-count sheets every night...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Follow Your Dreams! | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...with Mindy, the shrewish president of the co-op board, who's married to James, an obscure literary novelist who has just authored a massive best seller. A few floors up, another writer, Philip, a Pulitzer winner who has fallen on hard times (he's at work on a screenplay titled--in a nod to Waugh--Bridesmaids Revisited), is sleeping with his 22-year-old gold-digging assistant, Lola, a viciously, flawlessly drawn avatar of the rising generation of postfeminist girl-women. But Philip still yearns for an old flame: Schiffer, an Oscar-winning actress whose new TV show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Text and the City | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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