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Name: Robert (Douglass) Benton
Variant Name: Robert Benton, Robert Douglass Benton, Robert Douglas Benton, Robert Milton Benton
Birth Date: September 29, 1932
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert (Douglass) Benton
3,938 words, approx. 13 pages
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 as they display a consistent concern with a handful...


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Robert Benton Information
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Robert Benton (born September 29, 1932 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American, Academy Award winning screenwriter and film director. He has enjoyed a highly successful career in film, winning numerous prestigious awards for both writing and directing. He...


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Film Comment
Robert Benton. (film director) (Interview)
01/01/1995: 7,638 words, approx. 26 pages
If the Cahiers criticism and French New Wave films of the late Fifties represent one of cinema's great avant-garde moments, then New York in the early Sixties represents an equally important moment: the assimilation and popularization in America of French avant-gardism in filmmaking and...
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The Washington Post
Robert Benton, Feasting on 'Love'
09/28/2007: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
What Robert Benton talks about when he talks about love is its power and mystery. The way life is grounded by the search for it. The way it can slip from even the strongest grip. The way it never gets old or feels banal....
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The New York Observer
Robert Benton\'d5s Tiny Whispers
9/25/2007: 921 words, approx. 3 pages
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 service to pick him up—to screen Feast of Love, which opens September 28. The 74-year-old, more...
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The New York Observer
Seriously, Game Plan? Kingdom Reigns in NYC
10/1/2007: 465 words, approx. 2 pages
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 movie in the country, the Rock comedy The Game Plan (#4)....
 


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