Word: screenplays
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...FAITHLESS This is Ingmar Bergman's third retelling of an autobiographical fragment about one of his failed, youthful love affairs. But this time he's added a darker layer of melodrama to his screenplay; Liv Ullmann has burnished her direction with a forgiving glow, and in Lena Endre the two have found a perfect new generation Bergman heroine--beautiful, strong and rueful...
...play, by Dale Wasserman, is based on the 1962 novel by Ken Kesey, but it was the 1975 movie adaptation that gained the story immense fame while sweeping its way that year to the five most prestigious Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Adapted Screenplay...
...rarest (though unequivocally the most rewarding) brand of biographical film treats the truly unbelievable story, the preternatural case history, the real life epic that, without artistic interpretation or cinematic doctoring, reads like a full-blown Hollywood screenplay. Steven Soderberg’s 2000 Oscar-award-winning Erin Brockovich tells just such a story. To be sure, Soderberg’s nuanced cinematographic virtuoso played no small role in the movie’s success. His refreshingly honest, underproduced visual aesthetic won him a second Oscar at the 73rd annual Academy Awards for his harrowing portrayal of suburban American drug culture...
...writers come up with new twists on old conventions. In Cusack’s case, witness Gross Pointe Blank, which took the romantic comedy genre (in which Cusack most comfortably walks) and tweaked it, hilariously, by making Cusack’s leading man an assassin. Unfortunately, for every inspired screenplay, there are hundreds of others that are content to play by the rules, re-staging old scenes and re-hashing old material. We’re consequently served up fare that, in its eagerness to showcase Cusack’s widespread appeal, arrives with hardly anything to distinguish itself (think...
...would be safe to say that Rem Koolhaas is the only renowned architect who also once wrote a screenplay for Russ Meyer, the director of Mondo Topless. But the Dutch architect's immersion in mass culture is part of what made him just the man to design the two latest additions to the Guggenheim Museum's global museum line, opening on Oct. 7. That's because both will be located at the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas...