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Mississippi Masala, an interracial love story set in the American South and Uganda and that starred Denzel Washington, won three awards at the Venice Film Festival, including Best Screenplay and the Audience Choice Award. Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, which she directed and co-wrote, is a sexually explicit and opulent film, which weaves the tale of two women in 16th century India who look to the ancient text of the Kama Sutra to guide them in their exploration of love...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Home at the Movies | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...each other?s thoughts.? Explaining the Prix du Jury (typically given to a film, not a performer) that went to Irma P. Hall, lead actress of the Coen brothers? comedy ?The Ladykillers,? Tarantino said, ?Tilda wanted to give her a Force of Nature prize.? The Prix du Scenario (screenplay) prize to the French drama ?Comme une image? was, Quentin said, ?one of the easier awards to give.? As for ?Fahrenheit,? he stressed that the prize was given for film artistry, not politics. He added that all the entries had adherents: ?No film was far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palms Up for Michael Moore, Thumbs Down for Bush | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

Fortunately, the film succeeds despite these shackles, thanks in large part to Leven’s screenplay, which jettisons the schmaltz and preserves the essence of the romance that attracted readers and studios in the first place. Leven himself acknowledges the challenge: “The problem with the book is that it’s melodramatic and sweet, and you have to find a way to appeal to an audience that is apprehensive about yet another sweet movie. So you have to give it an edge, make it real and make the choices the characters face real...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Veteran Screenwriter’s Hollywood ‘Notebook’ Sparkles | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

...he’s happy with the final product, despite changes made to his screenplay; on the contrary, he seems to welcome anything he sees as an improvement: “I thought that he [director Nick Cassavetes] did some very good things—I don’t mind being rewritten if it’s better, I can learn from it. I’m very happy with the film...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Veteran Screenwriter’s Hollywood ‘Notebook’ Sparkles | 5/7/2004 | See Source »

Paths of Glory, shot by Stanley Kubrick in 1957 (when he still cared about human affairs), is one of the most unillusioned films about war made in this or any other country. Derived from the French soldier mutinies in the Vimy Ridge in World War I, the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson is a paradigm of military disfunction. An ambitious general, intrigued by an offer of promotion, leads an already battle-weary battalion on a suicide mission. But the battalion falls back from their advance. Enraged, the general orders three men shot for cowardice as examples...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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