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…
The great French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert wrote many films (more than 20 in total, including several animated features),…
Almost everything about Leigh Brackett was uncertain, ambiguous and even androgynous, beginning with her name, which many people (including the…
The Great Screenwriters is a new series for Scriptlab that examines the life and work of the finest writers for…
