Director and writer, Kenneth Lonergan, has a background
as a playwright so I shouldn't be surprised that brooding drama and interpersonal look into the story's character's make for something more than the basic film drama.
Not exact matches
Some
playwrights went
so far
as to rescind the sentence in the final moments.
(The traditionalism of the school itself,
so central to Max's sense of his own identity, is clearly part of this period ambiguity, along with the importance of Watergate, Serpico, and Vietnam to Max's career
as a
playwright.)
Taichman cites the late
playwright's drama
as a «neglected masterpiece» on this side of the world; her goal with «Time» —
as with «God of Vengeance» by way of «Indecent» — is to bring «that art back to life again and to bring attention to it
so it's not lost to time.»
No surprise that screenwriter Brian Nelson started out
as a
playwright — Hard Candy is not
so much small - scale
as it is proscenium - bound.
Not all of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — it takes a
playwright to dream up that title, and a shot of stubborn Irish blood to see it through producers» queries — is quite
so blazingly righteous, just
as Mildred doesn't always find herself
so immovably in the right.
Smithee's monologue seems to appropriately inhabit the space that the
playwright Samuel Beckett proposed with the dictum «Fail better,» of which Stephen Marche recently wrote, «To fail better, to fail gracefully and with composure, is
so essential because there's no such thing
as success.