The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby was designed to be a two-part film feature. Audiences were supposed to watch a romance disintegrate from both parties’ points of view with the appropriately ...

A typical screenplay is around 100 pages long. Ned Benson, writer and director of “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” is that nerd in the class who does more than what’s required — his ...

Serenely melancholy but unfailingly melodramatic, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is a tone poem to love and loss that goes on too long. Writer-director Ned Benson shows a happy couple in an ...

Take, for example, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby.” There are three separate versions afoot. The one available currently came into being at the insistence of producer Harvey Weinstein ...

Instead of rewriting “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” Benson simply wrote another script, subtitling the original one “Him” and the new one “Her.” Meant to be seen in tandem ...