Interview (Part 4): Jonathan Levine My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast With Billy Ray And Todd Garner Episode 6: Featured guests House of Representative members Ro Khanna & Becca Balint.
Trailer Moments, Set Pieces and Bits Of Business You may have read countless screenwriting books. Attended seminars. Taken courses. But I doubt if you have stumbled across these three…
Page One: “Donnie Brasco” (1997) Screenplay by Paul Attanasio, book Joseph D. Pistone and Richard Woodley
Interview (Part 3): Jonathan Levine My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Screenwriters Everywhere: International Day of Solidarity On June 14, in cities around the world, our sister Guilds and Unions from the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds (IAWG)…
Script To Screen: “Tootsie” “That’s what I said! So if a tomato can’t move, how can it sit down?! I was a great tomato! I was a stand-up tomato!”
The Huge, Fast-Growing Audience That Hollywood is Just Ignoring People over 50 represent a third of the U.S. population and they’re desperate for stories and characters geared to their interests.
Interview (Part 2): Jonathan Levine My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
A Matter of Survival: How the WGA Is Trying to Save Feature Screenwriters John August and Writers Guild leaders weigh in about the exploitation of feature screenwriters and the contract proposals that would help…
Screenwriting 101: Chris Borrelli “We always think of us as the writer, and of course the movie, which is sort of step Z, we’re step A. You have to think about the exec who…
Interview (Part 1): Jonathan Levine My interview with the 2022 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Tár” The entire 6-part series delving into the award-winning drama.
What the Writers Really Fear About AI in Hollywood The Town podcast conversation with a member of the AI working group in the WGA.
On Writing “Don’t bludgeon us over the head with description. A line or three about the character is good enough — and it doesn’t need to be purely…
Page One: “The Distinguished Gentleman” (1992) Screenplay by Marty Kaplan, story by Marty Kaplan and Jonathan Reynolds
Script Analysis: “Tár” — Part 6: Takeaways A week-long analysis of the screenplay for the award-winning drama. Download. Read. Discuss.
In previous responses, I’ve touched on the theme of control and how innate it is to the… There is an ancillary theme worth noting: Time. Consider this exchange at the very beginning of the script in which Adam Gopnik is…
So many sides to choose from. How about this? Lydia: You want to dance the mask, you must service the composer. You gotta sublimate yourself, your ego, and, yes, your identity. You…
Let’s see what I come up with in thinking about the characters in terms of the set of primary… Protagonist: Lydia. See the Plot response for a detailed analysis of her disintegration journey.
Tár is what I call a Disintegration Story. Such is the case with Lydia Tár. When we first meet her amidst the glowing introduction by the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik, followed by her…
