Me and Earl and the Dying Girl opens with protagonist Greg’s line: GREG GAINES (V.O.) It was the best of…
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I know, I know, I know. I’ve heard it all before. “Selling a script is impossible. It just doesn’t happen.…
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In writer/director Noah Baumbach’s latest film While We're Young, a middle-aged couple’s marriage and career are turned upside down when…
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Conveying your characters’ dynamics and their layered and complex relationships is an essential element when writing a savvy screenplay. Characters…
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WANDA "You're Jewish." These few words are revelatory in the Oscar-winning Ida, written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. The setting;…
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In film, as in real life, misunderstandings and embarrassing and awkward moments are just some of the many situations couples…
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At the Jacob Burns Film Center on December 4, Edie Demas, Executive Director of the JBFC, spoke with director Rob…
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In the film Two Days, One Night, written and directed by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the protagonist, Sandra, has recently…
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Adapting for the Screen Adapting a book into a screenplay can be regarded as all about the choices you make…
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Regardless of the genre you are working in, your main characters must make key choices that will propel the narrative…
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