Sharp Cut: Harold Pinter's Screenplays and the Artistic Process

While best known as one of the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, Harold Pinter (1930-2008) had an equally successful career writing screenplays. His collaborations with director Joseph Losey garnered great attention and esteem, and two of his screenplays earned Academy Award nominations: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Betrayal (1983). He is also credited for writing an unproduced script to remake Stanley Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Lolita. Much scholarship has ...