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Review: The Dying Gaul - Cinematical The Dying Gaul is an absorbing, fascinating film, but disturbing and a little grim. The Dying Gaul was written and directed by Craig Lucas, who adapted the script from one of his plays. The Dying Gaul seems a little stagy at times, but I wouldn't have known it was adapted from a play if no one had told me. Lucas did a good job of opening up the scope of story for the movie. www.cinematical.com /2005/11/04/review-the-dying-gaul   (1303 words)

Amazon.com: movie info: The Dying Gaul THE DYING GAUL, written and directed by Craig Lucas (writing credits include 'Longtime Companion', 'Prelude to a Kiss', 'Reckless') is a brilliant little film that stirred comment and appreciation during its unfortunately very brief run in the theaters (as one of the film's characters comments "Most Americans hate gay people. 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. The odd title (Dying Gaul) is well explained at the beginning and has a broader role overall in the movie than at first glance. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JOQF?v=glance   (2234 words)

AfterElton.com - Review of The Dying Gaul The Dying Gaul marks the film directorial debut of gay playwright/screenwriter Craig Lucas, and is based on his play of the same name. In classic suspense/film noir fashion, The Dying Gaul begins innocently, with all the fabulous superficial trappings of success and the good life in Hollywood. In doing so, The Dying Gaul harkens back to other ground breaking, gay-related “ménage-a-trois” movies including Paul Verhoeven's dreamlike and chilling The Fourth Man and John Huston's probing and harsh Reflections in a Golden Eye. www.afterelton.com /movies/2005/11/gaul.html   (592 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. Jeffrey (Campbell Scott, left) and his wife Elaine (Patricia Clarkson) become romantically involved with screenwriter Robert (Peter Sarsgaard), who wants his film produced in "The Dying Gaul." "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   (928 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. 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". Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), a film exec, makes him a deal: he'll make the film only if the main characters are heterosexual. www.austinist.com /archives/2005/10/22/the_dying_gaul_not_just_a_roman_statue.php   (1191 words)

The Dying Gaul - Review - Movies - New York Times 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. "The Dying Gaul" is a boldly expressionistic, proudly theatrical film. 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. www.nytimes.com /2005/11/04/movies/04gaul.html?ex=1288760400&en=514211070aa3a880&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (1031 words)

Indecent Proposal 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. 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. www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_444/indecentproposal.html   (722 words)

WeeklyDig : > THE DYING GAUL 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. This is a mysterious art that The Dying Gaul fails to discover. 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 Such is the case in The Dying Gaul, with a sex scene between Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), a heterosexually married Hollywood mogul, and Robert (Peter Sarsgaard), the young screenwriter who has unleashed all of his suppressed gay passion. Jeffrey brings Robert to orgasm and, in one of the most risible choices any actor has ever made, Sarsgaard moans, yelps and shrieks for a small eternity in a way to throw you completely out of the admittedly already shaky context of the film. There are certain telling onscreen moments from which a film never truly recovers. www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001434633   (300 words)

Dying Gaul The script, titled "The Dying Gaul," recounts his anguish during the dying days of his male lover. PARK CITY -- Before it disappears into a fog of confusion and damaging contradictions within its characters, "The Dying Gaul" presents an ironic, provocative look at what its creator, Craig Lucas, calls a postmodern Hollywood noir. The film, based on Lucas' play, begins with an ironic, been-there-and-know-it-all-too-well sequence in which a powerful but seemingly sympathetic Hollywood producer, Jeffrey (Scott), cons a fledgling screenwriter, Robert (Sarsgaard), into not only selling his autobiographical script but making a painful change to the story. www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/sundance/reviews_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000760780   (575 words)

PAPERMAG: The Dying Gaul Writer-director Craig Lucas's Hollywood satire is about struggling screenwriter Robert (Peter Sarsgaard), who discovers that a film executive and his wife want to buy his autobiographical script -- which focuses on Robert's lover dying of AIDS -- for a million dollars. The catch: They want to change the script so that it's about a heterosexual couple. Anthology Film Archives' "Save Our Films" fundraising show www.papermag.com /?section=article&parid=1013   (151 words)

Dying Gaul, The (2005): Reviews The heavily symbolic The Dying Gaul doubtless worked better as a play, but the film is worth seeing for its peerless cast. 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. www.metacritic.com /film/titles/dyinggaul   (858 words)

The Dying Gaul 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. The strongest element of THE DYING GAUL is the acting. Each character in THE DYING GAUL commits acts of kindness and cruelty, sometimes one under the guise of the other. www.chlotrudis.org /movies/reviews/2005/dying.html   (502 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. 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. 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). metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-0501104-movies-review-gaul,0,4430173.story?coll=mmx-home_bottom_hedsh2o   (820 words)

Playbill News: Craig Lucas' "The Dying Gaul" Film Gets Special Preview Screening , Oct. 24 Filled with deceit and sexual tension, The Dying Gaul revolves around a love triangle between screenwriter Robert, his producer Jeffrey and the film exec's wife, Elaine. A special screening of Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul film adaptation starring Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard will benefit the Vineyard Theatre Oct. 24. Admission to "The Dying Gaul" screening is a suggested donation to the Vineyard. www.playbill.com /news/article/95823.html   (667 words)

California Film Institute Part Greek tragedy, part Hollywood noir, The Dying Gaul is the impressive directorial debut of playwright/screenwriter Craig Lucas (The Secret Lives of Dentists, Longtime Companion, Prelude To a Kiss), based on a play by Lucas with the same name, in a taut psychological thriller that features stellar performances from three of our best actors. In this modern tale of lust, power and betrayal, the deal is further complicated when Jeffrey seduces Robert, as Jeffrey's bored wife Elaine (Patricia Clarkson), a former screenwriter herself, brings the grieving Robert into the family fold. www.cafilm.org /films/547.html   (116 words)

THE DYING GAUL an independent film by Craig Lucas: Starring Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Campbell Scott THE DYING GAUL an independent film by Craig Lucas: Starring Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, and Campbell Scott www.thedyinggaul.com   (17 words)

The Dying Gaul (2005) "No one is going see a movie called The Dying Gaul," pronounces studio executive Jeffrey (Campbell Scott) to screenwriter Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) regarding the script Robert has written about his dead lover, even as he lays down the conditions under which he will buy the screenplay. The only catch to securing the deal is that he must change the film's male character into a woman. The line generates a laugh, but it's an uneasy one, as Longtime Companion and Prelude to a Kiss scribe Craig Lucas brings his latest play to the big screen and makes his directorial debut. www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=140723&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13   (568 words)

The Dying Gaul Longtime playwright and screenwriter Craig Lucas makes a stunning transition to film director with THE DYING GAUL, a modern Greek tragedy based on his successful play of the same name. It is 1995 and fledgling screenwriter Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) has been offered a million dollars for a script, called THE DYING GAUL, that recounts his anguish during his male lover’s dying days. Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), the slick and ruthless studio executive pursuing the deal, wants to change the lead character into a woman, despite the fact that the famous eponymous sculpture is a male nude. www.seattlefilm.org /festival/film/detail.aspx?id=6659&FID=5   (319 words)

In Brief: "The Dying Gaul" 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. 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. Craig Lucas's fine "The Dying Gaul" deserved a longer life. www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/theater/reviews/2820   (560 words)

filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Dying Gaul 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. Yet with its story of rampant duplicity and showbiz shallowness tied to a now technologically outdated mid-‘90s milieu, and with its satire weighed down by banality, The Dying Gaul seems relevant only insofar as its cast effectively pinpoints the vengeful malice born from spurned love and squandered trust. www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/0b108b36238d5e80882570a80012c0ce?OpenDocument   (630 words)

Review: THE DYING GAUL The ending may be a bit harsh, but up until then, The Dying Gaul delivers tension, superb acting and more than a few nasty chuckles. The hilarious opening scene in which studio head Jeffrey (Scott) advises newbie Sandrich on how to soften his AIDS-themed script (also entitled The Dying Gaul)for the middle class could have been lifted from Robert Altman’s Fifteen years later the writer, now first-time director, and actor reunite for this darkly comedic gay horror film. journals.aol.com /scorseseisgod/TheIncoherentRamblingsofaCinehol/entries/1236   (464 words)

48th S.F. International Film Festival Starring indie icons Patricia Clarkson, Campbell Scott and Peter Sarsgaard, The Dying Gaul turns the detritus of modern Los Angeles—cell phones, Internet addicts, sleazy executives—into Greek tragedy, albeit with enough psychological thrills and humorous asides to play like The Player for the 21st century. A screenwriter mourning his lover’s death is plunged into a Faustian bargain with a studio executive in this deliciously wicked Hollywood noir, adapted by playwright-turned-director Craig Lucas from his successful play of the same name. Robert (Sarsgaard), a fledgling screenwriter, has been offered a million dollars for his new script, which chronicles the death of his lover from AIDS. www.sffs.org /fest05/titleDetail.asp?title_id=26   (291 words)

-- Austin Film Festival -- Thus is the failure of The Dying Gaul,... People who added this film to their calendar also added: The only catch is he has to change the character's sex from male to female. www.austinfilmfestival.net /aff/new/bside.jsp?page=filmdetails&filmId=20   (223 words)

The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Revenge of the SIFF: Film festival still racks up record numbers Among the fictional films, my favorites included "My Summer of Love," "Letter to an Unknown Woman," "Yes," "Brothers," and "The Dying Gaul" (which had perhaps the best acting ensemble of the festival, with Sarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson, and Campbell Scott). And "The Circus," the 1928 Charlie Chaplin film in which the Tramp finds himself under the big top (dealing with monkeys, tightropes and one very excitable pony), was a delight — particularly since it attracted filmgoers of all ages to its two crowded screenings. Many presented Q&A's after the screening of their films: Paul Reiser, formerly of "Mad About You," entertained the crowd after the screening of "The Thing About My Folks"; a trio of athletes from "Murderball" took the stage at the Egyptian on a special ramp. seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002332145_siffwrap13.html   (880 words)

Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Screens World Premieres and "Barbarella" Jury competition winners and audience awards will be announced July 19 prior to the screening of the closing night feature "The Dying Gaul" by Craig Lucas. The Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival takes place in the city of brotherly love July 7 - 19, and is produced by the Philadelphia Film Society, which also hosts the annual Philadelphia International Film Festival. The Sundance '05 film starring Lisa Kudrow, Jesse Bradford, Bobby Cannavale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom Arnold, Laura Dern and Jason Ritter, is an ensemble comedy about a group of friends who share and reveal secrets. www.indiewire.com /onthescene/onthescene_050708pigl.html   (399 words)

2005 Sundance Film Festival Coverage In five days I caught 22 movies, and there were still at least several more movies I've been kicking myself for not being able to see (including Hustle and Flow, Why We Fight, The Dying Gaul, Murderball, After Innocence and Mad Hot Ballroom). The Squid and The Whale starts out as a film about a family dealing with the impact of divorce in the late '80s and then goes much much deeper, addressing the relationships between parents and their kids and the effect and impact of parents on their children's personalities. While the film is in English, it's narrated by 'Z' in Somalian (with subtitles) - a bold but brilliant choice that gives an insight into the experience of an immigrant in America. www.dvdtalk.com /features/003687.html   (3253 words)

2005 Sundance Film Festival Coverage In five days I caught 22 movies, and there were still at least several more movies I've been kicking myself for not being able to see (including Hustle and Flow, Why We Fight, The Dying Gaul, Murderball, After Innocence and Mad Hot Ballroom). This is one of the major reasons I decided to go to the festival for the second half, where the ratio of more fiercely independent films outnumbered the studio films. The Squid and The Whale starts out as a film about a family dealing with the impact of divorce in the late '80s and then goes much much deeper, addressing the relationships between parents and their kids and the effect and impact of parents on their children's personalities. www.dvdtalk.com /features/003687.html   (3207 words)

The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: You never know who you might see at SIFF Some name actors are visiting SIFF this year: Joan Allen will attend with her new film "Yes," and Peter Sarsgaard with "The Dying Gaul." Other names will sound less familiar, and newcomers to SIFF may be reluctant to brave the queues for an actor whose name rings no bells. Just two years ago, a packed SIFF house was charmed by New Zealand teenager Keisha Castle-Hughes, who made her screen debut with the film "Whale Rider" and led the audience at the Egyptian in a traditional Maori chant. Seattle International Film Festival runs May 19 through June 12 at the Egyptian, Broadway Performance Hall, Harvard Exit and Neptune and June 2-12 at the Uptown. seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/siff.html   (1012 words)

Yi Yi Movie: Yi Yi DVD is available from Bestprices.com YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) won the Prix Moussinac (best foreign film released in Gaul) from the French Union of Film Critics. YI YI (A ONE AND A TWO) finished second in both the Best Picture and Best Foreign Film categories of the Boston Society of Film Critics 2000 Awards. YI YI premiered at the New York Film Festival in September 2000. www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/720917527321IE   (577 words)

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