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Issue #33 [April/May 1999]
Features: Will the Writers Rescue Hollywood?
By Rustin Thompson
Many in the industry wonder if Sony's new deal with screenwriters signals a new trend that will give screenwriters some long-overdue respect and financial reward, or if it is just one more indication of studio desperation in an era of declining motion picture quality.
Features: Cashing in on Historical Screenplays
By Scott Essman
This year the five films that were nominated for best picture are all historical dramas. Here are some tips for screenwriting in this ever-popular genre.
Features: Cyberscribes: The Power of Digital Screenwriting
By Scott Essman
What new considerations are there for screenwriters who can now create stories with virtually no limits on their imaginations?
Features: Hail Preston Sturges
By Paula Hunt
Over 100 years after his death and 50 years after one of the most amazing creative bursts in the history of the movies, audiences are discovering the genius of Preston Sturges again and for the first time.
Features: Hollywood’s Homeless Screenplays
By Paul Gachet
Why do some of the best screenplays in Hollywood never get made?
Quintessential Cool: A Conversation with James Coburn
By Timothy Rhys
Brand-new Academy Award-winner James Coburn talks about acting, women, cigars, sobriety,Yul Brynner, Sam Peckinpah, the internet, etc. Oh, and the new movie that's revived his career, Affliction.
Features: Spec Sale Strategies
By Anthony Kaufman
Marketing your script doesn't just mean sending out a few query letters anymore. Here are new ways to give yourself an edge as you look for gold in the lucrative but extremely competitive world of spec screenplays.
Notebook: MM Notebook
By Timothy Rhys
Letters: Letters
By Letters
Paul Schrader
By Rustin Thompson
With Affliction, the enigmatic writer-director's cinema of loneliness finally connects with audiences.
Paradise Falls
By Nick Searcy
Director discovers that doing well at festivals is no guarantee.
1999 Sundance, Slamdance and Rotterdam Film Festivals
By A.G. Basoli
Sundance, Stamdance, Rotterdam: Trends point to doc resurgence, but 1999 may be year that escapes definition.
Myles Berkowitz, Walkter Salles
By Larry Getlen
Doc-style comedy has been a success, but best perk was falling.
Rock the Boat
By Stephen Ashton
Stanley Kubrick Crosses the Line
By Rustin Thompson
A personal look at what the master meant to one moviemaker.
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