Word: screenplays
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...written and directed by David Hare of the BBC and the National Theater; Dance with a Stranger, written by Playwright Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey) and directed by Mike Newell, who has worked in British and American TV; and Insignificance, directed by Nicolas Roeg from a play and screenplay by Terry Johnson. All three films are ferociously critical of Britain or its thunder-stealing ally, the U.S. All are set (at least in part) in the 1950s, when postimperial Britain shrank into the Brave New Nothing-very-much-thank-you. All have, ironically, reinvigorated British cinema and helped restore...
...latest Lindsay Lohan debacle “Herbie,” he remains, for all intents and purposes, a good actor that can steal any scene he’s in. And Haggis, emerging from his wasteland past, garnered near-universal critical praise and an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for last year’s “Million Dollar Baby...
...strange thing about this screenplay was that from the very first word it came out in verse, which doesn’t have the strict and in many ways pedantic form of prose,” she says. “There may be a way in which verse is closer to the subject of experience, the stream of consciousness that we live in all the time without listening to it. We are all in the middle of giant soliloquies, compared to which ‘Hamlet’ is nothing...
Swerving madly from manic action sequences to bizarre pontification about ecological responsibility, Sahara’s screenplay seems to suffer from some deep schizophrenic identity disturbance. Logical continuity of genre proves to be nothing more than a temporary desert mirage in this convoluted, somewhat disappointing action movie. But that doesn’t mean that seeing stuff explode can?...
Ballad’s director, Rebecca Miller, is Arthur Miller’s daughter and co-writer of the 2005 screenplay of Proof. She and actor Daniel Day-Lewis (Last of the Mohicans) have been married since 1996. They met while Day-Lewis was working with Arthur Miller on the pre-production of the film version of The Crucible, and this is their first movie together...