Tag: screenplays
10 Days of Paul Thomas Anderson – Where To Stream His Movies
These easy-as-sweet-cherry-pie-mama-baby promoting of some of the finest filmmakers around almost seems arbitrary. Unless you’re too busy greedily scrimmaging for oil or attaching notes into…
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…
The Writers Guild Of America Announced Their Annual List Of Nominees
There were some expected inclusions like Get Out, Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, and The Shape Of Water. But there were also some slight…
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…
Writer-Director Dan Jenski Talks About His First Feature Film ADDicted
It occurred to me while watching ADDIcted, written and directed by Dan Jenski, that there are not many films these days that deal with the…
Independent Filmmaker Arthur Egeli Reconstructs A 'Murder On The Cape'
I knew a little about the true story of Christa Worthington, a fashion writer who was involved in a coastal affair, before being brutally murdered….
Genre Blast: By the Book – LitFlicks
Occasionally a complex literary work will connect with the right director and screenwriter who will select a point of view, edit the hell out of the details and modify the arrangement of various elements to support the change in medium from page to screen. When this happens, we, the audience, are handed a diamond that has been painfully pressed from the coal that is the written word. The flurries of words that challenge our imaginations when we read are replaced by the filmmaker’s creative interpretation that somehow maintains all the complexities of the original book.
Why It Is Important To Have A Femme Filmmakers Festival
I recently began writing my first screenplay. My story, which centers on a male protagonist, is not only something I love to tell, but I’ve…
Writer-Director Peyv Raz Talks Film Debut With 'Clarity'
From joy to despair in a matter of seconds as a family congratulatory gathering becomes a tense affair in a hospital waiting room. A life…
Cinema 2017 Half-Time Report: Movies 3/4
Here are 8 more recommendations movie-wise from the pre-summer, awards season era of this year. 2017 has uncovered some gems for me personally, and a…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #9
If you haven’t see them already, then the Jeff Bridges on-set photographs, taken by The Dude himself, are a real treat. Many of which taken…
