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...storyteller. Several of the films up for best screenplay at the Oscars were written by Brits, including The Queen (Peter Morgan) and Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber). "The quality of really good British writing has been a tradition for decades," says Vaines. "British screenwriters have a facility with words, a theatricality, but they also understand the way film works as a medium." In the Hollywood power scale, most screenwriters rank just below the guy who buys the bagels, and a finished script is never really finished until the director, the producers and, often, other writers have had their...
...girlfriend (who has become a bit too insistent about getting married) to a final meal - its setting is not: a Japanese restaurant where he feeds them fugu, a fish that's filled with lethal toxins unless filleted perfectly. (The film version of the play, for which they wrote the screenplay, won the Best Film prize at the Rome Film Festival this year.) Not that any of the Presnyakovs' delicious plot twists are ever final, mind you. "We love remaking our works," says Vladimir. "Playing with our characters again and again lets us see how their situations are developing...
...Shepherd” is more an exploration of Wilson’s commitment to his country, and the toil it wreaks on those closest to him. DeNiro has created a fascinatingly compelling picture that relies upon a fantastic screenplay to further plot. Noted screenwriter Eric Roth (“Munich”) produces a compelling script that gives the film its catalyst. With “Shepherd” he clearly nails both political intrigue and personal deterioration...
...best films, filmmakers and performances of the year. Soon our encomiums will be plastered all over the newspapers In today's New York Times you'll find ad for The Queen, the film about the British Royal Family's reaction to Princess Diana's death: "WINNER... Best Actress... Best Screenplay... New York Film Critics Circle." Word of our decisions will lodge in the brains of Academy members. And if they don't, the studios will remind them with daily double-truck ads in Daily Variety and the Hollywood Reporter...
...life to the age 18. Hannibal Rising has just been published, with all the hoopla and suspense-mongering of a Harry Potter novel: a first printing of 1.5 million, and no advance copies to reviewers. On Feb. 9 there will be a movie version, for which Harris did the screenplay. That could be unique: a best-selling novelist writing a new book and the movie version to come out almost simultaneously...