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	SF Station: The Dying Gaul
		The Dying Gaul is a gay-themed, neo-noirish thriller set in Hollywood by playwright-turned-screenwriter/director Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss, Longtime Companion).
		The "Dying Gaul" of the film's title is an ancient statue that currently resides in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
		The statue is generally interpreted to have a double meaning: a display of the warrior's bravery and honor, and for the victors who, by defeating him, have proved their worthiness and superiority to their fallen enemy.
	www.sfstation.com /the-dying-gaul-a1589 (862 words)

	Dying Gaul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dying Gaul is an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, that was commissioned some time between 230 BC-220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians.
		The Dying Gaul became one of the most celebrated works to have survived from antiquity and was endlessly copied and engraved by artists and sculptors.
		It is thought to have been rediscovered in the early 17th century during excavations for the foundations of the Villa Ludovisi and was first recorded in 1623 in the collections of the powerful Ludovisi family of Rome.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dying_Gaul (462 words)

	Gaul on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Gaul in Italy was called Cisalpine Gaul [Cisalpine, from Lat.=on this side the Alps], as opposed to Transalpine Gaul; Cisalpine Gaul was divided into Cispadane Gaul [on this side the Po] and Transpadane Gaul.
		In Roman Gaul it often became customary to call the chief center of a tribe or the country around it by some form of the tribe's name.
		The greatest testimony to the stability and thoroughness of the culture of Roman Gaul is the survival of the Latin language as French.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/g/gaul.asp (1331 words)

	Three Extremes: Craig Lucas' "The Dying Gaul"
		While "The Dying Gaul" may be lumped into the psychological thriller category, the designation hardly does it justice; instead of relying on annoyingly convoluted twists, it builds suspense through the unpredictability of its darkly human creatures.
		Robert's soul is up for grabs in "The Dying Gaul." At first he sells it for a boat-load of cash, his screenplay about AIDS becoming property of an entertainment machine that will chew it up and spit it back out as a spineless heterosexual weepie.
		Each of the three characters in the often thrilling actors' showcase "The Dying Gaul" attempt to maintain control over their own lives and desires, yet it's hopelessly apparent from the very beginning that they're all simply caught up in the machinery.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/2005/10/three_extremes.html (1268 words)

	The Dying Gaul - ComingSoon.net Movie Reviews
		Jeffrey loves Robert's script "The Dying Gaul," about a writer dealing with the death of his gay lover, except that he feels the gender of the lover needs to be changed.
		At first, it seems like "The Dying Gaul" will give Lucas a chance to show audiences the inner workings of Hollywood and the pervasive homophobia from the eyes of an insider.
		Instead, "The Dying Gaul" is a rather bland thriller that never delivers on the promise of the opening scene or the possibilities of such an interesting setting.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/reviewsnews.php?id=11841 (818 words)

	The Dying Gaul
		Each character in THE DYING GAUL commits acts of kindness and cruelty, sometimes one under the guise of the other.
		The strongest element of THE DYING GAUL is the acting.
		I found the acting too theatrical for a film: the delivery of lines, esp. by Clarkson (don't tell me: was she acting out her own screenplay?) and the Dying Gaul pose.
	www.chlotrudis.org /movies/reviews/2005/dying.html (502 words)

	JS Online: Windfall's 'Dying Gaul' starts strong, ends weak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The wife of a Hollywood producer suspects her husband is having an affair with the male screenwriter who has just sold him a script.
		Working within the anonymity of the Internet, the wife assumes the identity of a gay male, and in the chat room coaxes the writer into talking, with details, about the sexual liaisons he is having with the hubby.
		But the writer, Robert, is grieving the AIDS death of his lover/agent, and "The Dying Gaul" attempts to make sense out of the jumble of emotions and introspection that inevitably accompanies such a tragedy.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/performingarts/jaques/sep00/gaul12091100.asp (274 words)

	The Dying Gaul - Review - Movies - New York Times
		Even when Robert points to the success of the movie "Philadelphia," about a lawyer with AIDS who is fired by his conservative law firm, Jeffrey scoffs that "most Americans hate gay people." "The Dying Gaul" is set in 1995, two years after the release of "Philadelphia," when that movie was still fresh in people's minds.
		In its final deadly lap, "The Dying Gaul" seizes on the conventions of Jacobean revenge tragedy.
		To describe "The Dying Gaul" as the kind of film that Jeffrey wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole is to lavish it with high praise.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/04/movies/04gaul.html?ex=1288760400&en=514211070aa3a880&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (1031 words)

	The Campbell Scott Companion - The Dying Gaul
		The Dying Gaul is a psychological thriller in the Hitchcock tradition.
		There is only one catch to securing the deal and taking that first step to success: he must change the film's male character into a woman.
		The Dying Gaul translates beautifully into its cinematic incarnation with creative camera work and imaginative use of the defining icons of modern life--cell phones and Internet chat rooms.
	www.geocities.com /cscompanion/movies/m41_dyinggaul.html (237 words)

	Indecent Proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It’s called “The Dying Gaul,” a reference to a Roman statue whose significance Robert explains in an early scene.
		While “The Dying Gaul” is Lucas’ directorial debut, it follows a long string of acclaimed plays and scripts.
		Unfortunately, the finale of “The Dying Gaul” suggests that it mistakes a conclusion involving one more death—in a film thoroughly haunted by mortality—for a sign of automatic depth and profundity.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_444/indecentproposal.html (722 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Dying Gaul (xhtml)
		Those words appear onscreen in the first shot of "The Dying Gaul." Here is another quotation, from later in the film: "No one goes to the movies to have a bad time.
		His previous screenplays include "Longtime Companion" (1990), with its Oscar-nominated performance by Bruce Davison as the companion of a dying AIDS victim, and "The Secret Lives of Dentists" (2002), which also starred Campbell Scott and was about secrets and possessiveness in a marriage.
		"The Dying Gaul" considers some of this same material, but adds a dimension that is at first intriguing and then, I think, fatal.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051103/REVIEWS/511030302/1023 (901 words)

	FilmStew.com • The Dying Gaul
		After the war between the Romans and the barbarian Gauls in Hellenist Greece (circa 223 B.C.), the victorious Romans erected a statue of a man, the Dying Gaul, which depicted their fallen warriors in a light that elevated the strength of the Romans and at the same time, encouraged extolments for their fallen enemy.
		The Romans cast the original Dying Gaul in bronze and evinced the sculpted warrior hoisting himself up, awaiting death.
		Historians critical of the Romans described the statue as an exemplar of the strength of the Gauls, who were persecuted by the overwhelming Romans and yet continued to fight to their death.
	www.filmstew.com /Content/Article.asp?ContentID=12708 (194 words)

	WeeklyDig : > THE DYING GAUL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Dying Gaul’s soundtrack is provided by Steve Reich, that modernist innovator of music made from grains of crystallized annoyance.
		Maybe that was exciting when The Dying Gaul was a play, but it’s goofy and embarrassing onscreen.
		From this point on, the conversations, arguments and set designs are all uneasy transplants; even the cinematography, which was once so bracingly colorful and richly shadowed, winds up looking no better than a letterboxed fashion shoot.
	www.weeklydig.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/Article.view/issueID/5e9df2ec-8c52-4850-a13b-e86b01becb33/articleID/a3baa67b-5f7f-4dd8-9bbe-84aa68d39b84/nodeID/c73f7601-ba43-4a94-b026-9f85e0c9dbc3 (858 words)

	The Dying Gaul
		It would probably be absorbing on a stage, but seems extremely rigid and talky, more suited the other medium.
		The Dying Gaul is a movie with three people all trying to manipulate each other.
		They each have their little incisive monologues, but The Dying Gaul gets so wrapped up in its characters lies that it does what no movie should do - becomes dull.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/dying_gaul.html (469 words)

	The Dying Gaul
		He died while enduring a gruesome experimental treatment for tuberculosis (shown in flashback) that involved injections directly into his brain.
		With The Dying Gaul, Lucas, who wrote the screenplays for Longtime Companion (still the truest and saddest fictional screen chronicle of the advent of AIDS), Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss and The Secret Lives of Dentists, makes an auspicious debut as a screen director.
		To describe The Dying Gaul as the kind of film that Jeffrey wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole is to lavish it with high praise.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0106dyinggaul0106.html (906 words)

	Metromix. Movie review: 'The Dying Gaul'
		Craig Lucas, one of the American theater's few reliable craftsmen and even fewer wits, makes his film directorial debut--a good one--with a Faustian tale of his own called "The Dying Gaul." The play of the same name, a spiky rumination on compromises and soul-selling in Hollywood, stirred up some controversy in its 1998 premiere.
		Lucas, best known on screen for "Longtime Companion" and his recent, excellent script for "The Secret Lives of Dentists," has since reworked the material, de-emphasizing one character (a therapist), toning down some of the cattier tell-all zingers (a Tom Cruise joke, I believe, is gone).
		Robert's AIDS-themed script, named "The Dying Gaul" after the ancient Roman statue, attracts the interest of studio executive Jeffrey, played by Campbell Scott.
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-0501104-movies-review-gaul,0,4430173.story?coll=mmx-home_bottom_hedsh2o (820 words)

	The Dying Gaul bronze sculpture figure on marble base
		The Dying Gaul late 19th century bronze sculpture figure on marble base.
		The original Dying Gaul, now lost, was a Greek bronze sculpture created around 225 BC.
		This Boschetti "Dying Gaul" bronze measures 24 inches wide, 12 and one half inches high by 10 and one half inches wide.
	www.trocadero.com /stores/oneofakind/items/459373/item459373.html (243 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dying Gaul: DVD: Patricia Clarkson,Campbell Scott,Peter Sarsgaard,Ryan Miller (IV),Faith ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In "The Dying Gaul" Clarkson, Scott and Sarsgaard are equally matched in talent.
		The odd title (Dying Gaul) is well explained at the beginning and has a broader role overall in the movie than at first glance.
		The Dying Gaul offers no easy answers on the problems of compromised principles, the price of greed and the closeted nature of Hollywood, and in fact sometimes the movie may be a little too complicated and heavy handed for its own good.
	www.amazon.com /Dying-Gaul-Region-99/dp/B000E3L7E6 (1824 words)

	The Dying Gaul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Craig Lucas is best known for zany comedies like Reckless and Prelude to a Kiss, but his latest, The Dying Gaul, falls all over itself in an effort to be probing and profound.
		The Dying Gaul -- the title comes from the famous statue in the Capitoline Museum in Rome -- is a play that cannot make up its mind.
		Robert is on the verge of selling a hot screenplay to a big-deal Hollywood producer named Jeffrey who wants to make his movie and, as it turns out, suck his dick until it comes out his ears.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/04/20/THE_DYING_GAUL.html (820 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Dying Gaul
		Part movie industry critique and part Greek tragedy, Lucas’ film charts the modem-enabled turmoil between a married Tinsletown power couple and an aspiring gay screenwriter in the luxurious Hollywood hills, a trio whose interpersonal dynamic is irreparably disrupted thanks to the nasty role-playing opportunities afforded by computers.
		Jeffrey (Campbell Scott) is a bottom line-driven producer interested in Robert’s (Peter Sarsgaard) script “The Dying Gaul,” a semi-autobiographical tale about AIDS based on his relationship with his now-dead agent and partner Malcolm (Bill Camp).
		Rage against the dying of the light, and the Gaul.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/0b108b36238d5e80882570a80012c0ce?OpenDocument (630 words)

	Dying Gaul, The (2005): Reviews
		A fiercely original psychological thriller, The Dying Gaul is a tale of lust, power, corruption, betrayal and revenge set in the seductive world of the Hollywood elite.
		The Dying Gaul has the best kind of story in that it unfolds as a series of surprises, and yet every step, twist and turn seems inevitable in retrospect.
		Although The Dying Gaul tries to evoke the pathos of Greek tragedy and the stars strive heroically, there's none of the requisite grandeur in this trio of creeps to make it worth caring what happens to them.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/dyinggaul (924 words)

	Dying Gaul
		The Dying Gaul depicts a wounded Celtic warrior who lies upon the earth awaiting death.
		It was found in the gardens which had belonged to Sallust, a Roman historian.
		The statue is a Roman copy of one of the bronze statues dedicated at Pergamon by Attolos I in commemoration of his victories over the Gauls who had invaded Asia Minor in 239 B.C. Fourth and fifth century Greek sculpting had never depicted such a subject.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/dying_gaul.html (220 words)

	In Brief: "The Dying Gaul" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I approached The Dying Gaul with unhappy memories of Craig Lucas's other plays but, to my astonishment, found this one tightly constructed -- not just grabbing our attention but also keeping it.
		Robert, the semi-autobiographical protagonist, has lost his longtime lover to AIDS and is offering a script based on the relationship to Jeffrey, a film producer, in his Hollywood office.
		The Dying Gaul is a famous late-Roman statue, but I shan't burden you with its relevance here, now that an unjustly carping Times review has caused the dying of the entire show with galling haste.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/2820 (560 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of The Dying Gaul
		Writer/director Craig Lucas ("The Secret Lives of Dentists") makes his directorial debut with his own adaptation of his stage play, but while the film sports a stylish look and its three stars give him their all, it is ultimately his own words that take the edge off his film.
		Clarkson is always a joy to watch, but her character as written here is difficult to empathize with.
		"The Dying Gaul" (the title refers to a Roman statue of a dying enemy soldier) is stunning to look at with its angular architectural design (production design by Vincent Jefferds, "Max Keeble's Big Move"), all windows and panels and angles, minimalist furniture and infinity pools.
	www.reelingreviews.com /thedyinggaul.htm (659 words)

	The Dying Gaul: Killer Writing and Tour De Force Acting - Associated Content
		The Dying Gaul or Dying Trumpeter is an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, to honor Attalos of Pergamon's victory over the Galatians.
		The statue serves both as a reminder of the Celts' defeat, thus demonstrating the might of the people that defeated them, and a memorial to their bravery as worthy adversaries.
		In the film "The Dying Gaul" worthy adversaries square off, and a signifier of that victory is commemorated as worthily..
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/51498/the_dying_gaul_killer_writing_and_tour.html (691 words)

	The Dying Gaul Movie Review \| Campbell Scott \| Peter Srasgaard \| Patricia Clarkson \| Craig Lucas \| Cinema de Merde
		The thing about the sculpture is that it sensitively depicts a dying soldier of the enemy’s army, and so is normally taken to represent the ability to have empathy for one’s enemy.
		We later find out that his lover who died was the brother of his former wife, which carefully hints at Robert’s shifty morals.
		On senses that the final image of Jeffery in the posture of The Dying Gaul is supposed to bring all of the emotional themes into focus, but one recognizes it without being moved by it.
	www.cinemademerde.com /Dying_Gaul.shtml (1186 words)

	This Week's Attractions: The Dying Gaul (Seattle Weekly)
		As a result, Gaul is full of all kinds of powerful scenes—suffering, sex, forgiveness, betrayal, atonement, revenge—that grasp at themes of karma and moral accountability without reaching a coherent statement.
		Jeffrey offers Robert $1 million for his screenplay (The Dying Gaul) on the condition he change the gay lovers into a hetero couple.
		Lucas uses elements of the Hollywood whodunit, a genre that demands killers be clearly identified and punished.
	www.seattleweekly.com /2005-11-09/film/the-dying-gaul.php (598 words)

	Austinist: "The Dying Gaul": Not Just a Roman Statue
		Last night we caught two films from the Austin Film Festival at the Paramount, and The Dying Gaul was one of them.
		We went into this screening with a very vague idea of the plot and we knew Patricia Clarkson was in it (which was one of the main reasons we wanted to see it).
		In "The Dying Gaul", Robert (Peter Sarsgaard), a gay man grieving the recent loss of his lover, has written a semi-autobiographical screenplay called "The Dying Gaul".
	www.austinist.com /archives/2005/10/22/the_dying_gaul_not_just_a_roman_statue.php (474 words)

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