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About scripts and the magic of it.
During the first key 10-15 minutes of any movie, the audience takes a fundamental decision: they make their minds about going with the film or just disengaging. 10-15 minutes is the amount of time that filmmakers, in general, have to…
Continue reading Video-Analysis: The First Ten Minutes of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
If you don’t know who Billy Wilder is and you are a film lover, you are a walking contradiction. Anyone who loves movies ought to know and admire a guy like Billy Wilder, may he rest in peace, whose career…
Continue reading For Screenwriters: 10 (Attributed) Pieces of Advice from the Great Billy Wilder
Michael Arndt acquired prestige as a screenwriter with Little Miss Sunshine (2006), a great character-driven comedy that became a success. The future held for Arndt titles like Oblivion (2013), Hunger Games 2 (2013) and The Force Awakens (2015), but this…
Frederic Raphael: There’s a lot of talk. You want a lot of talk? Stanley Kubrick: I can’t say what I want. I want to do Arthur’s story (Schnitzler’s “Traumnovelle”), but in New York, now. That’s all I can tell you.…
Continue reading How Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT Was Written
The tension that raised between the master of horror Stephen King and the master of film Stanley Kubrick about the movie The Shining is a well-known story. Let me summarise here the basic tale. This story starts at the end…
Continue reading King Vs Kubrick: From THE SHINING to DOCTOR SLEEP
Dmytryk, Edward Filmmaker Edward Dmytryk published a series of books on the film trade when, in the last section of his life, he became a film teacher. We have already reviewed here his book On Film Editing and here his book On Screen Acting. Now it’s…
Continue reading Best Screenwriting Books: Dmytryk’s ON SCREEN WRITING
Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories. This book covers many aspects of the screenwriter’s life through the eyes of renowned authors. It’s a work about screenwriting filled with advice and wisdom from established Hollywood writers. And…
Continue reading For Screenwriters: How to Cope with Rejection
Lajos Egri (1888-1967) wrote The Art of Dramatic Writing back in the ’40s. The book is not about writing film but theatre. Still, it’s considered chronologically as the first “how-to“ work ever made about screenwriting -even if the author didn’t know. Many concepts in…
Continue reading Best Screenwriting Books: THE ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING
Hello everyone!As some of you already know, I do script doctoring / consulting service, with the sole intention of making your scripts even better than they already are!Sessions start from one hour, in person or on Skype, rated at 60 euros…
Honest Trailers are great fun. Maybe those filmmakers that get trashed by them wouldn’t agree, but they are fantastic. That, though, is not the only reason why I’ll be making them part of this blog from now on. The reason…
