Goldman's calling card, Shoot the Moon, was then filmed by Alan Parker and starred Diane Keaton & Albert Finney. The film received international acclaim and was embraced by America's most respected film critics:
Pauline Kael – The New Yorker
"Shoot the Moon is perhaps the most revealing American movie of the era.”
David Denby – New York Magazine
“The Picture seems like a Miracle. A Beautiful Achievement.”
David Edelstein – The New York Post
"One of the Best Films of the Decade."
However, due to a previous agreement Warren Beatty had negotiated with MGM the studio was bound that no film could be released with Diane Keaton in the same year as Beatty's Reds. Consequently, Shoot the Moon was effectively dumped – and subsequently released with little or no fanfare the following February – long after the fourth quarter "awards season." Nonetheless, Goldman's peers remembered and the following year he earned his third Writers Guild Award nomination. For many years the film was all but forgotten and not available on DVD until Warner Bros. aquried MGM's home video library and released the film in the summer of 2007. To this day the film has a perfect 100% score on the critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
"The great Bo Goldman. He's the pre-eminent screenwriter ––in my mind as good as it gets." Eric Roth, New York Times, 1998.
For the next few years, Goldman contributed uncredited work to countless scripts including Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981) starring James Cagney and Donald O'Connor, The Flamingo Kid (1984) starring Matt Dillon, and Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990).
Read more about this topic: Bo Goldman
Famous quotes containing the words shoot the, shoot and/or moon:
“Martin, a woman hasn’t got any political opinions. I run this farm to suit myself. I’ll shoot the daylights out of anybody—British, Indian or American—that thinks he can come around here monkeyin’ in my business. That satisfy ya?”
—Lamar Trotti (1898–1952)
“Some hours seem not to be occasion for any deed, but for resolves to draw breath in. We do not directly go about the execution of the purpose that thrills us, but shut our doors behind us and ramble with prepared mind, as if the half were already done. Our resolution is taking root or hold on the earth then, as seeds first send a shoot downward which is fed by their own albumen, ere they send one upward to the light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It takes the moon for this. The sun’s a wizard
By all I tell; but so’s the moon a witch.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)