The following essay focuses on the literary collaboration of Robert Benton and David Newman.The screenplays of Robert Benton and David Newman offer some support for the screenwriter-as-auteur theory a...
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On a recent rainy Tuesday evening at an empty screening room in Times Square, writer and director Robert Benton arrived without fanfare—good-naturedly waving away all talk of a car...
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The leaves have yet to change color, but it must be fall: New York City has finally gotten serious.
The Kingdom (#1) reigned over the Manhattan box office this weekend, easily out-grossing the top ...
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FEAST OF LOVE RUNNING TIME 102 minutes DIRECTED BY Robert Benton STARRING Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Selma Blair, Radha Mitchell
Robert Benton’s Feast of Love, from a screenplay by Alli...
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That "Feast of Love" is an overstuffed melodrama, better suited for broadcast as a TV movie of the week than as a theatrical release, is bad enough.That it comes from Robert Benton, a veteran whose...
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Today is Saturday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2007. There are 93 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 29, 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment just ...
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Highlights of the fall film slate (release dates are subject to change, and some films will play in limited release):Late August-September:ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: Beatles tunes are the backdrop for a ...
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Highlights of the fall film slate (release dates are subject to change, and some films will play in limited release):Late August-September:ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: Beatles tunes are the backdrop for a ...
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Harold Ramis’ The Ice Harvest, from a screenplay by Richard Russo and Robert Benton, based on the novel by Scott Phillips, plays out as a blacker and bleaker film noir than anything Mr. Ramis...
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Robert (Douglass) Benton
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