Word: screenplays
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...guise of a science-fiction film, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence represents the collaboration and collision of two master filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, who spent parts of more than 15 years on the project; and Steven Spielberg, whom Kubrick finally asked to direct it, and who did, from his own screenplay, after Kubrick's death in 1999. The film, whose genesis and shooting have long been cocooned in secrecy, opens next week...
...guise of a science-fiction film, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence represents the collaboration and collision of two master filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, who spent parts of more than 15 years on the project; and Steven Spielberg, whom Kubrick finally asked to direct it, and who did, from his own screenplay, after Kubrick's death in 1999. The film, whose genesis and shooting have long been cocooned in secrecy, opens next week...
...closer to your sensibilities than my own.' " Once Spielberg began work on the film, at the behest of the director's widow Christiane and her brother, Kubrick's producer Jan Harlan, "I felt that Stanley really hadn't died, that he was with me when I was writing the screenplay and shooting the movie...
...jury, headed by actress Liv Ullmann, gave the Palme d'Or to Nanni Moretti's family drama The Son's Room; second prize and both actor awards to Michael Haneke's sexual war of wills The Piano Teacher; the screenplay citation to a Bosnian film, Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land; and director laurels to two Americans, David Lynch for Mulholland Dr. and Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There. Worthy films all - but the best of a mediocre bunch...
Only one thing about this genial and savage film must sadden us: it is the first-produced feature screenplay by a writer named Stan Seidel, who died while the movie was in post-production. His was, obviously, a rare sensibility, unpredictable, unsentimental, unsparing and, most important, unlike anyone else's. Bless his memory. See his movie...