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...father, Etienne, a self - obsessed celebrity author. As Lolita brings other people into her father's orbit, their efforts to become part of his clique cause marriages to crumble and friendships to implode. Darker and more nuanced than The Taste of Others, Look at Me picked up the Best Screenplay award at Cannes and knocked Steven Spielberg's The Terminal out of the No. 1 spot when it opened in France in September. (It opens across Europe over the next two months.) In other words, Jaoui's girlhood dream has come true: she and Bacri are the reine...
Stage Beauty feels like the brainchild of a producer attempting to capitalize on the commercial success of Shakespeare in Love. But, in addition to the significant absence of Gwyneth Paltrow’s come-hither androgynous sultriness and sans Tom Stoppard’s once-over on the screenplay, Stage Beauty is a raucous, vulgar mess. Between two rather abrupt (and unsatisfying) oral sex scenes, cliché moments of Maria finding her on-stage presence (again with the doe eyes) and its hamfisted themes of gender identity, the filmmakers abandoned any attempt to make a coherent and entertaining film?...
While working on a film adaptation of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the screenplay for Damon and Affleck’s alleged brainchild, Good Will Hunting, plummets from the ceiling or perhaps from the heavens. The resultant scenario finds the two reacting in unexpected ways to the discovery, amidst “cameos” by Gwyneth Paltrow and J.D. Salinger and a screwy, violent climax. Humorous references to the duo’s headline-grabbing history pepper the play and provide rich comic fodder...
...Back then, I didn’t think that the events of Shakespeare’s life were very filmic,” Greenblatt says. “I told Marc Norman to write a screenplay on Marlowe. Shows what I know...
...that he has always stayed on the fringes of commercial cinema. Though he describes his relationship with Hollywood as a “mutual resistance,” the closest he has come to personal involvement in a major Hollywood production in the last fifteen years was writing the screenplay for Barry Levinson’s Bugsy...