Apr 26 Love3 The Great Television Writers: Part 3 – Sharon Horgan By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101, The Great Television Writers When Amazon Studios announced at the start of the year that it had signed Sharon Horgan to an exclusive two-year…Read More
Apr 09 Love4 The Great Screenwriters: Part 19 – Jay Presson Allen By Martin Keady Filmmaking, Screenwriters, Screenwriting 101 Jay Presson Allen was one of the finest female screenwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, successfully adapting for the screen…Read More
Mar 26 Love6 The Great Television Writers: Part 2 – David Simon By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101, The Great Television Writers The Wire is the Citizen Kane of television, revolutionizing television and televisual storytelling just as Citizen Kane revolutionized cinema and…Read More
Feb 28 Love3 The Great Television Writers: Part 1 – Paddy Chayefsky By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101, The Great Television Writers It is often said that the early 21st century is “the golden age” of television, with remarkable shows such as…Read More
Feb 08 Love2 The Great Screenwriters: Part 18 – Emeric Pressburger By Martin Keady Filmmaking, Screenwriters, Screenwriting 101 Fish and chips, tea and cake, Powell and Pressburger… some pairings are archetypically English. However, just like so many other…Read More
Jan 14 Love2 The Great Screenwriters: Part 23 – Diablo Cody By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101, The Great Television Writers All screenwriters have their “inspirational quotes”, the expressions and sayings that often litter their desk but also provide that all-important…Read More
Dec 07 Love0 The Great Screenwriters – Part 17: Taxi Driver’s Paul Schrader By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101 Paul Schrader was probably the greatest screenwriter, and certainly the most famous screenwriter, of the late 20th century. The man…Read More
Nov 27 Love1 The Story Behind the Screenplay: In a Lonely Place By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101 The Story Behind The Screenplay is a new series by Martin Keady that examines the origins of some of the…Read More
Oct 26 Love1 The Top 10 Family Films of the 21st Century (So Far) By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101 “Family films” and “animated films” are no longer completely interchangeable terms, as they were for much of the 20th century.…Read More
Oct 13 Love2 The Great Screenwriters: Part 16 – Robert Towne By Martin Keady Main, Screenwriting 101 Chinatown (1974) really should have a silent ‘e’ - “Chinatowne” – because for all the brilliance of its other creators…Read More