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Tag Archives: Tony Kushner
Award-Winning Screenwriters and Their Flawed Current Screenplays: Being the Ricardos, Don’t Look Up, and West Side Story
WARNING: Major film nerd writing ahead. The pre-Oscar nominations by the Writers Guild of America are out, and the usual past Oscar winners and nominees are nominated this year. We have Aaron Sorkin (Oscar for adapted screenplay for The Social … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron. Sorkin, Adam McKay, Amadeus, Ant-Man, Araiana DeBose, Cate Blanchett, Desi Arnaz, Don't Look Up, J.K. Simmons, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lincoln, Lucille Ball, Meryl Streep, Mike Faist, Munich, Nicole Kidman, Queen Anne, Rachel Zegler, Sharon Tate, Steven Spielberg, The Big Short, The Favourite, The Social Network, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, Tony Kushner, Tyler Perry, West Side Story, West Side Story (2021)
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West Side Story (2021)
In a word, it’s fantastic. Don’t wait for it to come to a streaming channel, and don’t wait to rent it. Just go to a big theater and watch it. You can thank me later. I think I had the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ansel Elgort, Audrey Hepburn, Carol Lawrence, Citizen Kane, Deborah Kerr, George Chakiris, Jerome Robbins, José Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa, Larry Kert, Leonard Bernstein, Lincoln, Marnie Nixon, Munich, My Fair Lady, Natalie Wood, Rachel Zegler, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, Robert Wise, Stephen Spielberg, The King and I, The Sound of Music, Tony Kushner, West Side Story
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Lincoln
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln may be the most beautifully photographed, best-acted procedural ever filmed. The core of the film is not Lincoln’s life, or death, or any of his many personal struggles. It’s the ratification of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery, … Continue reading
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Tagged All About Eve, Daniel Day-Lewis, David Strathairn, Hal Holbrook, Jackie Earle Haley, James Spader, Jared Harris, John Hawkes, John Williams, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Joseph Mankiewicz, Lincoln, Philip Seymour Hoffmann, Sally Field, Schindler's List, Speven Spielberg, The Master, Tim Blake Nelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Tony Kushner
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Film stuff by Mark 