Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...streets, and when she enters a bar, a computerized sensor announces, "Weapons clear." Despite a few lapses in logic -- even for a man whose appeals are exhausted, how can an execution be scheduled this precisely? -- the film, directed by Tommy Lee Wallace (Stephen King's "It") from a script by Thomas Baum (The Manhattan Project), unfolds with caustic plausibility, from the outbreak of T-shirt merchandisers to the anti-capital-punishment protesters who picket the event...
Final page from a script for an upcoming Fox TV movie based on the cases of Lyle and Erik Menendez, whose recent murder trials ended with hung juries (screenwriters can't foresee everything...
...have several questions: Should a group whose idea of "art" is a really bad play script about gay rights receive money from the Office of the Arts...
This development really sets the story going, but the whodunnit plot, like all the other technical elements, pale in insignificance before the ineffable passion at the film's core. The performers, especially Webb and Andrews, are excellent. The script is fantastic, full of acerbic wit and deadpan humor. The cinematography is suitably noir, but punctuated by bursts of radiance. And the music--ahhh, the music--is like a lover blowing in one's ear. But what really counts in "Laura" is love--from tender affection to sweeping passion. Mark's love for Laura has a desperate edge to it; thinking...
...Jehovah's witness who came knocking at his parents' door in Charlotte, North Carolina several summers ago. In religious language, the term connotes an endless time spent on Earth to those who are not "saved"; but the phrase also describes the "indefinite' nature of documentary film making itself. Without script or multiple shots the documentary format relies on editing the shots into some cohesive story. This style uses a "catch as catch can" method to obtain material. To compound this difficulty, McElwee agonizes over the objectivity of the documentary genre. For this reason, it is no surprise McElwee only releases...