All posts tagged "Samuel L. Jackson"
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“Trimming the Fat”: A Slimmer TIFF 2017 Lineup Still Offers a Robust Selection of Quality Programming
This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in its lineup... -
Monstrous Undertaking: Screenwriter Max Borenstein Says His Kong: Skull Island Script "Is Its Own Beast"
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Few images in American cinema are as... -
First Draft: Wield These Wordsmithing Weapons to Beat Down Screenwriting Clichés
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Plot and character-related exposition in screenplays is... -
First Draft: Tap Into Rhythm, Rhetoric and Other Dynamics of Dialogue
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Good dialogue strikes a nerve, usually in... -
First Draft: Build Your Rewriting Chops With This Case Study From The Hateful Eight
In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, we’re publishing “First Draft,” a series on everything to do with screenwriting. Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight had...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8