Joseph Conrad

  • Directing

Art of Darkness: Hostiles‘ Scott Cooper on Genre, Race, and the American Soul

“Life is nasty and brutish and short.” “Thomas Hobbes said that,” he explains. It’s the perfect bookend to our conversation…

6 years ago
  • Screenwriting

The Politics of Plot: What Liberal or Conservative Architecture is Your Narrative Constructed Upon?

One hears a great deal these days about the universal nature of story. It’s a gratifying conceit that deep down…

8 years ago