Akira Kurosawa has been described as “The Man Who Invented Hollywood”, specifically the late 20th century Hollywood that ultimately became…
Such was the contribution of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala to Merchant-Ivory movies that the most famous double barrel in cinema history…
Welcome to International Spotlight – a series in which we pick a country, and select ten of its best, most influential contributions to global cinema….
I.A.L. Diamond was Billy Wilder’s second great co-writer. After Charles Brackett, with whom Wilder had co-written The Lost Weekend and…
Jean-Claude Carrière is probably the greatest European screenwriter who, more than five decades into his film-writing career, continues to produce…
Today Ernest Lehman is principally remembered as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s coterie of writers, with whom Hitchcock created a succession…
“Round up the usual suspects.” This classic line from Casablanca, delivered by the cynical Captain Renault (played by Claude Rains)…
The great Billy Wilder had two great screenwriting partners. The second was I. A. L. Diamond, with whom Wilder collaborated…
Almost all of Graham Greene’s novels have been adapted for the screen, several of them, including Brighton Rock, The Quiet…
In many ways, Herman J. Mankiewicz was the ultimate screenwriter – but that is not an entirely positive accolade to…
