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7 Festival de Cannes Winners to Watch Right Now: Prix du scénario (Best Screenplay)

Setting the scene. Building character. Applying the dialogue. Structuring the story. I mean, it’s a tireless cliché that the motion picture process begins with the…

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Writers Guild Awards Can Keep This a Race

Many pundits may have put a fork in this shortened season that has moved so fast, so furious. Barely getting over Golden Globe hangovers, Oscar…

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For Your Consideration: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for Best Adapted Screenplay

As a piece of narrative writing, Joel and Ethan Coen’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ranks as one of their most challenging and provocative works….

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Review: If Beale Street Could Talk

As the tagline suggests, If Beale Street Could Talk is about trusting love all the way. The film is about finding love and optimism when…

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Review: Wildlife

As they say, whenever there is fire, someone is bound to get burned. That logic certainly applies to the film Wildlife, which depicts people playing with…

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Indie Review: The Big Take

The myth of the first feature is so damaging to any aspiring filmmaker. You look at Citizen Kane or Red Road or Blood Simple, and…

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Original Screenplay Feud: Get Out v. Three Billboards

While those of us Oscar predictors are scrambling our brains trying to figure out what will win Best Picture, another category that we still can’t…

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James Ivory – A Filmmaker with an Unobstructed View

James Ivory’s career-long intellectual freedom, precise observation of human interaction and fiercely independent spirit was instrumental in elevating film to the level where a book like Call Me by Your Name could be translated to cinema.

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For Your Consideration: Christopher Nolan, Best Original Screenplay, Dunkirk

With the weight of Dunkirk‘s award season run seemingly on the shoulders of Christopher Nolan as Best Director, I wanted to bring his chances for…

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No My Screenplay Was Not Ready To Submit

  You know you are not going to make the next round of voting in the 2015 BlueCat Screenplay Competition when the ‘What I Like’…

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Screenplays Nine Years In The Making

Currently working on ‘Monsters and Angels’, a screenplay I conceived nearly 10 years ago, and is still not complete. There are many reasons for this,…

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To Begin With, I Am A Screenwriter

I just had the urge, as we reach the final straight of this awards season, to just talk about screenwriting. For those of you that…

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First Ten Pages: American Sinners

I wonder how many of you have a general idea of the significance of the first ten pages of a screenplay. That there is a…

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Yes My Screenplay Is Ready To Submit

No, my screenplay is not ready to submit. But I will anyway. That is not a lie, not really. As a screenwriter I never feel…

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