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Belfast Film Festival · 2023

Belfast Film Festival 2023

Screenwriters On Screen

Programme

3 films · 2 reviews

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Adaptation

Review preview for Adaptation

A film of true originality...triumph of courage over conformity

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4.5 out of 5
A writer wrestles with his demons - and his twin - as he tries to adapt a book for the big screen.

(Country: US; Year: 2002; Director: Spike Jonze; Writer: Charlie Kaufman, based on The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean; Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Maggie Gyllenhaal)

Full review See: Profile of Meryl Streep , Eternal Struggle of the Creative Mind

Barton Fink

Review preview for Barton Fink

The film has the maverick nature of originality, constantly surprising, never explaining.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
An intellectual screenwriter comes to Hollywood to write a script for a wrestling B movie.

(Country: US; Year: 1991; Director: Joel Coen; Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen; Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner, John Mahoney, Tony Shalhoub)

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Sunset Boulevard

A fading star, an exploitative journalist, murder and madness in the dark side of Hollywood.

(Country: US; Year: 1950; Director: Billy Wilder; Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder; Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb)