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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 29, 2022 23:40:02 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 29, 2022 23:47:06 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 29, 2022 23:48:22 GMT
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Post by marshamae on Aug 29, 2022 23:53:24 GMT
The Bad And The Beautiful - Dick Powell plays a writer of historical novels , one of three contributors to a film who are manipulated by Kirk Douglas. His Story arc is mostly about conditions which help a writer vrs those that distract.
The Way We Were - both Redford and Streisand played screenwriters. Neither was very successful. It was interesting to see the poor end of life in the film colony.
Author! Author! Starring Al Pacino as a struggling playwright with 5 stepchildren and a wife on her way out the door. Lots of process of developing dialogue but what you see of the play is awful so it’s hard to draw sense out of it. .nevertheless I love this film and wish Pacino had done more comedy.
Boy Meets Girl. Started as a very funny play by Sam and Bella Spewack. One of the very funny films about films. It reads funny , I think on stage it was funny but this film is not nearly as funny. Cagney and OBRIAN are usually good together so I do not know what happened. I mentioned it but my advice is to read the play.
Finding Neverland - wonderful exploration of the life and work of James Matthew Barrie. His troubled personal life ,his attachment to the young sons of a widow, the effect of these boys on his writing and finding his way into Neverland.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 30, 2022 0:11:19 GMT
Boy Meets Girl. Started as a very funny play by Sam and Bella Spewack. One of the very funny films about films. It reads funny , I think on stage it was funny but this film is not nearly as funny. Cagney and OBRIAN are usually good together so I do not know what happened. I mentioned it but my advice is to read the play. Ralph Bellamy is good as a pretentious producer, otherwise this is a disaster, w/Cagney & O'Brien running around and yelling rather than actually doing or saying anything funny FWIW the characters they play were supposedly based on Hecht & MacArthur.
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 30, 2022 1:50:51 GMT
Jane Campion's film about the writer, Janet Frame, who was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia when she was a teen. Terence Davies' film about Emily Dickinson. The film version of writer Karen von Blixen's 1937 memoir (under the name Isaak Dinesan), directed by Sydney Pollack.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 30, 2022 2:13:17 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 30, 2022 17:43:17 GMT
2007
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 30, 2022 18:35:42 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 30, 2022 18:42:58 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 30, 2022 20:08:55 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 30, 2022 22:58:27 GMT
Eva (1962) Dir Joseph Losey. An English language Italian-French co-production, adapted from Eve a psychological thriller novel written in 1945 by British writer James Hadley Chase. The film opens in Venice during the film festival. Writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), has just had a big success with his first novel and is attending because the book has been adapted into a movie that is being shown at the festival. A tremendous performance from Baker, playing Tyvian, a former Welsh coal miner, confident and an ultra-masculine man, he is a working-class intellectual, somewhat of a cad...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 30, 2022 23:14:20 GMT
Naniwa no koi no monogatari , Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka (1959) Japan Dir. Tomu Uchida This excellent absorbing drama is based on a play written in 1711, "The Courier for Hell" which tells a tale of actual events that took place in Osaka in 1710. Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653 –1725) among the greatest of Japanese dramatists is considered to be the Japanese equivalent of Shakespeare. With an inspired touch director Uchida places Chikamatsu amidst the unfolding drama. Played by Chiezô Kataoka he has a continuous presence in the background, eavesdropping on conversations with pen in hand, his ears and eyes are wide open. The inspiration for his new play begins when, he overhears Hachi and Chubei planning to go to the pleasure quarters... Initially an observer taking inspiration for his writing from the events he views, Chikamatsu however begins to intervene...
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Post by stryker on Aug 31, 2022 8:05:48 GMT
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Post by stryker on Aug 31, 2022 8:14:18 GMT
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Post by stryker on Aug 31, 2022 8:20:36 GMT
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 31, 2022 13:49:11 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Aug 31, 2022 14:13:13 GMT
Real life publisher Max Perkins (Colin Firth) is offered the manuscript of "You Can't Go Home Again" by Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law). Also with Guy Pearce as F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Post by Penn Guinn on Aug 31, 2022 16:56:06 GMT
OT Trivia: While filming The Fly (1986), Geena Davis was reading the novel on which this film was based. In fact, she would read it to Jeff Goldblum while he went through the hours-long process of having prosthetic make-up applied to his body.
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Post by spiderwort on Aug 31, 2022 18:30:21 GMT
Never saw that one, stryker, but it reminded me of another about Henry Miller that I did see (though I didn't like it). Starring Fred Ward, it was written by writer, Anaïs Nin, who was Miller's lover in the film (played by Maria de Medeiros). His wife, played by Uma Thurman, was part of the affair, too. In the early 70s, I got to see Henry Miller speak at a Q & A at the Actors and Directors Lab in L.A. run by director Jack Garfein. That was interesting, to say the least. He was a lot more demure than I would have expected him to be.
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