Word: screenplays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Screenplay by Boleslaw Michalek, Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wajda...
Directed by Roland Joffé; Screenplay by Bruce Robinson...
...LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL Directed by George Roy Hill Screenplay by Loring Mandel
...RAZOR'S EDGE Directed by John Byrum Screenplay by John Byrum and Bill Murray
...will ever be tempted to employ terms like that to describe The Bostonians, for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay is less a response to its source than a careful college outline of it. There is a certain undiminishable power in the struggle between Basil Ransom (Christopher Reeve), all snaky masculine guile, and Olive Chancellor (Vanessa Redgrave), representing feminism at its most sternly ideological, for the innocent soul of Verena Tarrant. But Ivory's camera behaves like a tourist trapped meekly behind a velvet rope at a historical reconstruction, and most of his actors seem afraid they might damage...