Summary
Brokeback Mountain, UA DeVargas Mall, 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, 134 minutes
When Larry McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove (Simon & Schuster, 1985), his epic saga about a 19th-century cattle drive, he outgrew his britches as a "Western" writer and claimed his place on the national literary stage. Twenty years later, he continues to dissect American machismo as embodied in the Western frontier myth. The protagonists of his latest screenplay, Brokeback Mountain, are cowboys with a twist -- their adventures in the sack turn into love that time cannot erase.See the full content of this document
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A Cowboy's Sweetheart
The script, written along with Diana Ossana, bounced around Hollywood for seven years before landing with producer James Schamus (himself an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter) and director Ang Lee, with whom Schamus had worked on eight previous films. Winner of the Golden Lion for best film at the 2005 Venice International Film Festival, Brokeback Mountain is already generating Oscar talk.
McMurtry and Ossana are recipients of Luminaria Awards at this year's Santa Fe Film Festival. "McM...See the full content of this document
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