Almost everything about Leigh Brackett was uncertain, ambiguous and even androgynous, beginning with her name, which many people (including the…
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A letter arrived recently from Screenwriting Newsletter subscriber Ronald M. Sandgrund, a prominent Colorado attorney, law professor, and writer. (Full…
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Anomalisa is a Charlie Kaufman film, so it will potentially disturb you, confuse you, and make you question everything you…
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The Great Screenwriters is a new series for Scriptlab that examines the life and work of the finest writers for…
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On Feb. 18, 1952, a ferocious nor’easter picked the oil tanker SS Pendleton to be the Titanic’s spiritual successor, splitting…
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As a veteran screenwriter, Patrick Sheane Duncan is used to hearing suggestions, some mind-boggling, about his work. With his script…
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The Great Screenwriters is a new monthly series from TSL that takes an in-depth look at greatest writers for the…
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The world is no stranger to Spike Lee’s passionate, one-of-a-kind temperament. In recent years, despite whatever controversies the filmmaker’s inner…
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About halfway into The Revenant, Tom Hardy’s Fitzgerald, a cold and traumatized frontiersman, shares meat with Will Poulter’s Jim, a…
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Approximately thirty-five years ago I got an idea for a screenplay called Film School. I like to consider the script an ‘homage’…
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