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Thousands of books have been written about the playwright, but none has borne Ackroyd's unique and accessible stamp.

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Clio Barnard's remarkable debut, which paved the way for the equally excellent The Selfish Giant, is an ambitious, experimental docudrama about playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Barton Fink, the Coens» Palme d'Or - winning film about a playwright trying to work on a screenplay in Hollywood, only he's suffering from a terrible case of writer's block.

A very funny film about a playwright who enlists a gangster to help him bring life and reality to his play, it was one of Allen's best works with hysterically funny performances from John Cusack, the -LSB-...]

Nonetheless, it's a film worth mentioning more than once: Clio Barnard's remarkable debut, which paved the way for the equally excellent The Selfish Giant, is an ambitious, experimental docudrama about playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Not exact matches

Playwright Lucy Prebble talks about her hit play Enron — and the infamous company that inspired it.

She's an actor / playwright / freelance writer, «but something about saying that out loud at parties made me blush,» she confesses.

Throughout his effervescent narrative, playwrights, poets, novelists, and filmmakers pop up, each quoted to make a salient point or to convey some hidden truth about the world.

The protagonist of Humboldt's Gift, Charlie Citrine, is a successful playwright and biographer who returns to the Chicago of his boyhood; muddles about in the urban scene while trying to straighten out a marital problem; leaves for Spain with a large friend, Renata; is deserted by her; returns to America to bury his old friend Von Humboldt Fleisher; and receives his bequest.

Her formula — no faith, no love, no life — implies that she, like the playwright, knows all about sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

This fallacy is widespread in Shakespeare studies, true enough, but the business of wrenching passages out of dramatic context as evidence of the playwright's personal beliefs usually reveals more about the critic than about Shakespeare.

One of Britain's most renowned political playwrights is penning a TV drama about the EU referendum campaign.

Playwright and trailblazing activist Eve Ensler made her name talking to women about their vaginas — the resulting Vagina Monologues became a global phenomenon and watershed moment for feminist theatre.

But anyone who cares about the state of our politics - and comics, satirists, playwrights, writers and creative folk generally do — does need to recognise that when healthy scepticism veers into utter contempt, that spells danger.

In 1756, the author complained about his teeth to the playwright Edward Young, who used the same dentist.

Steve Mirsky here, and welcome back for part 2 of Dan Falk talking about his book The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe.

A panel discussion about the play on November 2nd featured crystallography expert Helen Berman, biologist and Franklin scholar Lynne Osman Elkin, science journalist Nicholas Wade, playwright Anna Ziegler and moderator Stuart Firestein

About Blog Cranky is an award - winning, published playwright, a producer and also an actress.

In this movie, ostensibly about the late playwright Andrea Dunbar, it has actors lip - synching testimony given by friends and relatives.

A playwright (Eric Stoltz) learns about life and love when his play is slated to be produced in New York City.

Moonlighting playwright Martin McDonagh quickly yanked a trapdoor on his gallows humor — jerking from wry cringe comedy to a surreal congregation of blinded skinheads, fat Americans and midgets on drug benders before a violent, solemn climactic parable about purgatory.

In light of that, I asked Mayer to talk about his sense of responsibility introducing new playwrights to the world, which brought up the subject of his own recurring director's nightmare.

Playwright Terence McNally is probably best - known for Corpus Christie — his controversial stage drama about Jesus and his apostles as gay men in contemporary Texas.

Girl Most Likely (PG - 13 for sexuality and profanity) Dysfunctional family comedy about a suicidal, struggling playwright (Kristen Wiig) who moves back to Jersey from Manhattan to live with her gambling - addicted, ex go - go dancer mother (Annette Bening).

Nicole Kidman talks about her role in the upcoming film «Rabbit Hole» directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) from a script by acclaimed playwright David Lindsay - Abaire, adapted from his Pulitzer Prize - winning play.

Mayer and screenwriter Stephen Karam (normally a playwright, who previously wrote a stage adaptation of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard) open the movie with a flash - forward to events that occur about 2/3 of the way through the story, and when that moment arrives, they play it again, without variation.

Julie Taymor will helm a coming - of - age biopic about feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem, based on Steinem's bestselling memoir My Life on the Road, adapted for the screen by Tony Award - and Pulitzer Prize - nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl.

The famous prize - winning film version of playwright August Strindberg's dark, terror - filled theatrical classic about a sadomasochistic romance between a susceptible aristocrat (Anita Bork) and a brutal groom (Ulf Palme).

The top 12 features well loved playwright's like Tennessee Williams (though I was surprised by his second most revived), Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and of course Edward Albee's masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf • Variety Rance Howard, the character actor and father of Ron Howard, has passed away • Gr8ter Days David Cassidy, 70s teen idol of the Patridge Family has passed away • Variety The Seen and Unseen, which you'll remember I raved about at TIFF, has won two new prizes this past week, splitting the Grand Prize at Tokyo FilmEx and winning the APSA for Youth Feature.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

Letts, a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble and a Pulitzer Prize winner for August: Osage County, launched his career as a playwright with Killer Joe, about a sadistic Dallas cop who moonlights as a hit man, and followed it with Bug, chronicling the romance between a lonely middle - aged woman and a paranoid schizophrenic who believes his skin is crawling with insects.

The divisive, gleefully offensive shocker reunites director William Friedkin with his Bug collaborator, Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright Tracy Letts, for a scuzzy neo-noir about a debauched, impoverished trailer - park family that hires dirty cop McConaughey to kill someone for an insurance payday, and ends up getting in way over their heads.

The story in the film is told by a lifeguard who dreams of being a playwright and is another ensemble piece about various people around Coney Island.

A few years later in 1859, playwright Dion Boucicault halved the calculation and doubled the drama creating THE OCTOROON, a play about a beautiful woman named Zoe (the touching Shawna M. James) who is 1/8 black and the illegitimate daughter of the plantation owner.

10:35 am — IFC — Barton Fink One of the Coen Brothers» most brilliant dark comedies (heh, I think I say that about all of their dark comedies, though), Barton Fink follows its title character, a New York playwright whose hit play brings him to the attention of Hollywood, where he goes to work for the movies.

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

May I suggest that, aside from its lovingly realized 1920's Broadway backdrop, there is something vaguely Italian about this film: something of Fellini in the way its true artist character (a gruff gangster played by Chazz Palminteri) is willing to die for his art, unlike the weak - willed playwright (John Cusack) who is taking credit for and uncertainly directing his overblown maiden script.

New Conversation Between Ethan Hawke and Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman About the Play and Adaptation

While it's not unusual for a scripter to have a long, successful life (after all wrote this forty - four years ago and he's still going strong), but considering that «Strawberry» was a big - budget movie about the late sixties riots at Columbia University, one that showed radical students breaking windows and, I believe, smoking the dean's cigars, that seems too much in the mainstream for the prolific playwright.

«Nothing about Greta seemed inexperienced for a first - time director,» Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and actor who plays Lady Bird's tenderhearted father, told V.F. «The work she's done in front of the camera and as a writer has really prepared her for this moment.

Staging the stories of that conflict presents a challenge to playwrights: how do you write about horror in a way that is both accurate and entertaining?

He had a meeting with Harvey Weinstein about something else when Weinstein casually mentioned that he should work with playwright / screenwriter Tracy Letts on «August.»

A classic style New York romantic comedy with touches of classic screwball and a sprinkling of terrific cameos, the former escort reminisces to a reporter (Illeana Douglas) about her rags to riches fairy tale — a chain of events affecting the lives of everyone involved, including Arnold's wife Delta (Kathryn Hahn), leading man Seth (Rhys Ifans), playwright Joshua (Will Forte) and even Isabella's therapist, Jane (Jennifer Aniston).

Kristen Wiig's default mode of defeated exasperation sets the tone for Berman and Pulcini's slow - footed comedy about an out - of - work, loveless New York playwright who's forced to move back in with her wacky mother (Annette Bening) after a fake suicide attempt.

Host Eric Hynes talks to filmmaker Clio Barnard about the slippage between reality and representation in her new documentary - fiction hybrid The Arbor, which utilizes an evocative lip - synch technique to explore the gritty legacy of celebrated British playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Humor Me (Unrated) Father - son comedy about a struggling Manhattan playwright (Jemaine Clement) who reluctantly moves in with his elderly father (Elliott Gould) only to be pressured to put on a production starring residents of the Jersey retirement community.

The screenplay credited to Pulitzer - Prize - winning playwright David Lindsay - Abaire follows the broad strokes of the novel's plot without nurturing enough lively idiosyncrasy to make the story come alive, which ironically is what Inkheart is all about.

Pulling back a little on the profane humor that characterized his In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, playwright turned filmmaker Martin McDonagh unfurls a tense Missouri drama about vengeance, culpability, and the complicated bonds forged in small - town America.