For Christmas this year, I was treated to a slew of Criterion releases and spent the week between then and New Year's cataloging the ideas and lessons learned from these almost always brilliant films, ...

Luca Guadagnino is a loyal collaborator. He’s worked with Timothée Chalamet and Dakota Johnson twice, Tilda Swinton four times, but the people he’s worked with most frequently are his screenwriters.

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Simple fact is: Hollywood bigshots don't read spec screenplays. Not to begin with, anyway. First of all, your spec will likely fall into the hands of a script reader, who, based on a few pages alone, ...

Tuesday night at the WGA West’s annual Beyond Words panel, ten WGA Awards-nominated scribes assembled to talk screenwriting and commiserate over the scripting challenges faced on eight very different ...

The filmmaker and star of “Language Lessons” discusses his teenage education in indie cinema and the screenwriting lessons in “Waiting For Godot.” By Kathryn Shattuck It was May 2020, two months into ...

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