Famous Screenwriters is a new series by The Script Lab for the new year, in which our resident cinema historian,…
Famous Screenwriters is a new series by The Script Lab for the new year, in which our resident cinema historian,…
The best explanation of the difference between wisdom and knowledge that I have ever heard was provided by the Ireland…
Perhaps it was because the British film industry was in the doldrums for much of the late 20th century that…
The death of the Miloš Forman earlier this year was a reminder of how great so many of his films…
9/11 was the tragic, terrifying start of the 21st century. It is estimated that nearly 3,000 people were killed on…
There are great screenwriters and then there are great co-screenwriters. Like Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond (Billy Wilder’s two great…
Move over, May 4th (“Star Wars Day”) and out of the way, “Alien Day” (26 April) – henceforth, June 16…
I have hitherto excluded “writer-directors” from this series, as I have wanted to concentrate on “pure” screenwriters – those writers…
When Amazon Studios announced at the start of the year that it had signed Sharon Horgan to an exclusive two-year…
