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Despite the convivial atmosphere, the festival was also competitive, with awards handed out for achievement in several different genres, as well as for best screenplay, best directing, audience favorite, and “most original voice.” The biggest winners (none of Harvard’s entries took home awards) were University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Scott, who won both Best Short Screenplay and Most Original Voice for her “The Infamous Gabi Garcia.” Daniel Falcone from Columbia’s film school, whose “Night Swimming?...
...Tribeca Film Festival, within view of the still gaping Twin Towers site. Greengrass's film is the first of a few big-studio projects dealing with 9/11. World Trade Center, the account of two Port Authority policemen trapped beneath the towers' charnel rubble, follows in August. James Vanderbilt's screenplay of Against All Enemies, Clarke's contentious memoir of his career tracking terrorists, which begins with frenetic scenes in the White House on 9/11, is floating around Hollywood. Paul Haggis, fresh from his Oscar upset with Crash, has expressed interest in directing...
...Uncommon Women,” and “Old Money.” The portrayal of the perplexing nature of female depression in “Friends with Money” seems to echo Michael Cunningham’s book and 2002 screenplay “The Hours.” At the same time, this movie strives for the sexual humor and heart-warming friendship of “Sex and the City”—unsurprising in that Holofcener directed several episodes of the seminal show...
Paul Haggis, 53, has had a long run in Hollywood, including an Emmy in 1988 for writing the TV show thirtysomething and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Million Dollar Baby. The hits keep on coming: last month he picked up two Oscars--Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay--for his work on Crash, his gritty film exploring racial differences. He wrote the screen-play for Clint Eastwood's film Flags of Our Fathers and also one for the new James Bond adventure, Casino Royale. Now he's working on a TV series. Haggis spoke with TIME's Coeli...
Streep at once pays homage to the original literary character while embodying the persona in the adapted screenplay, he said...