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blog.spout.com - 12/8/2008
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In her Variety column today, Anne Thompson contrasts Sam Mendes’ star-studded, Oscar-positioned, somewhat tonally revisionist adaptation of Revolutionary Road with the work and life of author Richard Yates. Thompson reminds what unlikely source material this is for a re-teaming of the ...
thehousenextdooronline.com - 12/16/2008
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By Dan Callahan [ Revolutionary Road opens December
26th in limited release; wide release in January. ]
Richard Yates’ debut novel Revolutionary Road is a suitably bleak vision of fifties suburbia and Madison Avenue soullessness, but it’s much ...
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Wild is the Wind: Revolutionary Road
filmofilia.com - 12/15/2008
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filmofilia.com —
Adapted from Richard Yates ‘ (1926-1992) first novel,
“ Revolutionary Road ” is an incisive portrait of
an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (three-time Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio ) and April (five-time Academy Award nominee Kate Winslet ) Wheeler. Yates’ story ...
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DiCaprio’s Revolutionary Road Photos
blog.spout.com - 12/4/2008
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blog.spout.com —
“No pictures, no attacking — none of that,”
warned the junket manager to the online press, who
had been assembled for an hour in the tiny Waldorf Astoria ballroom, awaiting their audience with the director and four top-billed stars ...
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Revolutionary Road Press Conference
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Yates' Revolutionary Road: Novel to Film
Thompson On Hollywood —
... Karina Longworth gets me slightly wrong on the movie adaptation of Revolutionary Road. I don't think any producer from Hollywood or elsewhere could adapt this book for the movies without warming it up. You have to give the audience some reason to hang in there. Much as I admire the book, Yates is tough and brutal. Mendes and screenwriter Justin Haythe and Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio kept the story grim and honest and figured out a way to cut through the darkness. ...
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