Jay Presson Allen was one of the finest female screenwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, successfully adapting for the screen…
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Of all the emotions evoked by cinema, fear is one of the most powerful - and most elusive. From the…
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My late and beloved Auntie Anne, single her whole life, lived in a sprawling rent-controlled 14th-floor apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea…
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Since they debuted their brand over 5 years ago with Spring Breakers, the fine folks at A24 have proven themselves…
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Like many other facets of filmmaking, women are severely underrepresented when it comes to the practice of film scoring. An…
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2018’s Oscar nominations for Best Adapted and Original Screenplays featured another compelling set of characters brought to life through dynamic…
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Whether it’s a scene, a joke, an action, or a visual – if it’s in your script it should earn…
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One of cinema’s greatest director/composer relationships was that of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. The pair first began working together…
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Contrast. You see it everywhere. Sweltering summers and frosty winters. Barren deserts and tropical rainforests. There is a cosmic yin-yang…
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Classical music—be it Baroque, Romantic, Modernist or the Classical period itself—is rich in its breadth of musical character and dramatic…
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