Word: screenplay
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...Shepherd” is more an exploration of Wilson’s commitment to his country, and the toil it wreaks on those closest to him. DeNiro has created a fascinatingly compelling picture that relies upon a fantastic screenplay to further plot. Noted screenwriter Eric Roth (“Munich”) produces a compelling script that gives the film its catalyst. With “Shepherd” he clearly nails both political intrigue and personal deterioration...
...best films, filmmakers and performances of the year. Soon our encomiums will be plastered all over the newspapers In today's New York Times you'll find ad for The Queen, the film about the British Royal Family's reaction to Princess Diana's death: "WINNER... Best Actress... Best Screenplay... New York Film Critics Circle." Word of our decisions will lodge in the brains of Academy members. And if they don't, the studios will remind them with daily double-truck ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter...
...life to the age 18. Hannibal Rising has just been published, with all the hoopla and suspense-mongering of a Harry Potter novel: a first printing of 1.5 million, and no advance copies to reviewers. On Feb. 9 there will be a movie version, for which Harris did the screenplay. That could be unique: a best-selling novelist writing a new book and the movie version to come out almost simultaneously...
...approach to filmmaking. “Anything that’s scary that you’re compelled to do, you should probably do, in the arts at least,” he said.In fact, he said that one of his biggest successes, the Oscar-nominated screenplay for 2005’s “Before Sunset,” was a major risk—he had already scored an indie hit with its predecessor, 1995’s “Before Sunrise,” and he could have alienated its fans...
...story is about a boy at his bar mitzvah, and his whole family and everyone is there, and he drops the Torah. It begins there and takes place during the 24-hour period right after that. I wrote the screenplay during the night when I was fasting, so I was weak and kind of in a crazy mode, and I wrote the whole screenplay that night. The 85-year old grandmother who’s hypoglycemic has to fast, his whole family who has flown in for his bar mitzvah has to fast, it’s basically the worst...