Topic: Guillermo Arriaga

Australia, Spain, Japan

Wikileaks Shows MPAA Drove Aussie Copyright Suit A newly released Wikileaks cable from the U.S. State Dept. confirms what many presumed all along:...

Biutiful Movie

Biutiful is a motion picture, currently in post-production , scheduled for release in the latter half of 2010 . This drama, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, will be a Spanish language film, and the first directorial appearance for Inarritu since the 2006 motion picture ...

Babel

Babel is an ensemble cast drama that follows four loosely-related stories that take place in four different countries. Inarritu claimed that Arriaga's input was minimal and as their working relationship came to close, Inarritu banned Arriaga from attending the Cannes premiere ...

The Burning Plain

By now, the crisscrossing plots of such films as Babel and 21 Grams feel peculiarly dated, like turn-of-the-millennium disaster movies. His directorial debut yields a self-hating ma?tre d' in Oregon (Theron), an unfulfilled New Mexico housewife (Basinger) having an affair with ...

"Tourist" traps Theron, Worthington

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charlize Theron and Sam Worthington finally got their passports.The Oscar-winning actress and the much-in-demand Aussie star, who is taking over for Tom Cruise, have signed on to a remake of the 2005 French spy thriller " "Theron has ...

Love across the border in The Burning Plain

Guillermo Arriaga wrote Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel with Mexican director Alejandro In?rritu, and his first feature as sole writer/director retains the tricky structure of those films. Three plot strands, seemingly disparate, coalesce in the end but not before ...

Mexican wave goes on after clash of auteurs

Two years ago the writer, Guillermo Arriaga, was effectively banned from the Cannes film festival after falling out with the director of his screenplay for Babel. he came to Venice as a film director himself.The question was, could Arriaga hack it ...

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones invited the Mexican novelist and screenwriter, Guillermo Arriaga, to write a film for him to direct. It had to be set in the area of west Texas and northern Chihuahua where Jones was born and now has a ranch ...