Having never gone to film school, I’ve always thought it must be pretty cool to sit in a class listening to a professor talk about film stuff. You know, things like the structure of a movie, breaking apart scenes and designing your characters. It’s just that when I graduated high school in 1982, I...
As I hunted through my resources this weekend, I came across some screenwriting DVDs I’ve enjoyed and wanted to share with you. 1. The Dialogue DVD Series: This series of DVDs includes interviews of successful screenwriters talking craft, breaking in, and the films they love. I’m a big fan of crawling inside other writers’...
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Was Hugh Grant’s young, single Prime Minister your favorite character in Love Actually? If you’ve ever been curious about a British Prime Minister’s sex life, the late BBC writer Terence Feely has seven different answers for you.
Tuesday, May 12, Fox Home Entertainment will release Taken, one of the biggest action flicks of 2009, on DVD and Blu-Ray. If you’re in the mood for an against-the-clock shoot-‘em-up, the movie delivers.
Don’t let the decidedly “literary” title (i.e. “non-cinematic”) fool you: The Reader is an exquisitely imagistic film experience. Directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare, The Reader synthesizes gritty realism and tenebrous tenderness in translating the internationally renowned book by Bernhard Schlink to celluloid.
