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...Cabranes' adaptation of this script is a true tour de force. She successfully shifts the play's focus from war to gender issues and uses overtones of 1930s Hollywood to emphasize the timelessness of gender conflict. Cabranes frames the play with an artful prologue, consisting of such Hollywood clips as, "Sex always has something to do with it, dear"; "Men's all alike, married or single"; and "You're my prisoner and I'm gonna be your jailer for a long, long time...
...perishable commodity (actor) becomes a lasting presence. The movie can stand as both an artful commentary on growing up strange and a calling-card film for a director who promises much and delivers most of it. Still, reverberations from Foster's extraordinary youth pulse through Scott Frank's script and inform the fierce care the director took in realizing...
...Donoghue's Paradise, a well-acted, sweetly stated and emotionally predictable tale of an estranged couple brought together by a visiting child, with Rambling Rose, which portrays a much more genially dysfunctional family involved with a randy and amiably obliging serving girl played by Laura Dern. Based on a script that Calder Willingham derived from his own novel, Rose's true preoccupation is one that the movies always cater to slyly but almost never directly confront: basic, down-and- goofy human horniness...
During art school I once had a job making bowling shirts. That was a recession year, and you'd do anything for money. I'd take chalk and write names like Louella in script so that the seamstress could go over...
CITIZEN KANE (T.H.E.). Fifty years after Charles Foster Kane whispered "Rosebud" and died, Turner Home Entertainment is offering a newly restored version of the Orson Welles classic in four different commemorative gift packs, including a half-hour documentary, the original trailer and even a script...