Famous Screenwriters is a new series by The Script Lab for the new year, in which our resident cinema historian,…
Perhaps it was because the British film industry was in the doldrums for much of the late 20th century that…
The death of the Miloš Forman earlier this year was a reminder of how great so many of his films…
Graham Linehan is one of the greatest TV comedy writers of the last thirty years, who has created or co-created…
For a man who could justifiably be described as “Fellini’s Screenwriter”, as he helped to co-write such classics as La…
9/11 was the tragic, terrifying start of the 21st century. It is estimated that nearly 3,000 people were killed on…
Carla Lane is one of the few writers who changed an original, exotic, given name – Romana Barrack (which sounds…
There are great screenwriters and then there are great co-screenwriters. Like Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond (Billy Wilder’s two great…
I have hitherto excluded “writer-directors” from this series, as I have wanted to concentrate on “pure” screenwriters – those writers…
When Amazon Studios announced at the start of the year that it had signed Sharon Horgan to an exclusive two-year…
