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...detective, Sam Spade (Bogart), goes head to head in search for the elusive statuette against the femme fatale (Astor), the “fat man” (Greenstreet), and his fair-weather partner (Lorre). It was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay) and deserved all of them. This is one of the best films ever made. Tickets $9. 5:00, 7:15, 9:45 p.m. The Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street...
Winner of the Rhode Island International Film Festival Screenplay Competition, Stay Until Tomorrow is the opening screening for the 29th Annual New England Film and Video Festival. It tells the story of Nina (Eleanor Hutchins), a former teen star on a popular soap opera who takes to a life of cavalier globetrotting after her star fizzles out until she finds solace in childhood friend Jim (Barney Cheng). Director Laura Colella developed the film with the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Lab. Tickets $8, $6 with student ID. 7:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre...
...Film Museum in Berlin, who is troubled by the film. "To show Hitler as a benevolent old man and not mention the Holocaust or the millions of people who became victims of the war - this is a real danger." Downfall producer Bernd Eichinger, who also wrote the screenplay, argues that a bigger danger was Germany's habit of seeing Hitler as a one-dimensional madman - because it lets other Germans off the hook. "He turned almost the whole population of the country into his followers," says Eichinger. "I believe that in every one of us there is something very, very...
...such a romantic story, he wanted to make the film." Minà became the artistic supervisor, helping with three years of research (which meant visiting all the countries on the route twice and talking to Guevara's relatives and the real Granado, now 82) and developing the screenplay, which was first written in English and then translated into the colloquial Spanish of the 1950s. The money from the deal went into the Che Guevara Center of Studies in Havana, from where March oversees all things Che. Mexican golden boy Gael García Bernal was Salles' first and only choice...
...film, mainly concerned with the trials faced by an onscreen Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) after he agrees to adapt Orlean’s book into a screenplay, is no kinder to its script’s author—which Orlean said led her agent to employ an unusual argument as he convinced her to approve the script...