“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…
The Great Screenwriters is a new monthly series from TSL that takes an in-depth look at greatest writers for the…
Bye bye, Bowie. Undoubtedly the greatest pop star ever and arguably the greatest artist of any kind of the last…
Sean Connery may have retired from cinema 12 years ago (his last film was the sadly unextraordinary The League of…
