Scott Frank

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Queen’s Gambit: How Accurate Is Its Portrayal of Child Prodigies?

In The Queen's Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy plays Beth Harmon, who is orphaned at a young age, learns chess from a…

3 years ago
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Heath Ledger Almost Made The Queen’s Gambit With Ellen Page Before He Died

Heath Ledger dreamed of making The Queen's Gambit before his death in 2008 — and envisioned Ellen Page in the lead…

3 years ago
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Advice From Austin: The 27 Best Things Screenwriters Said at the Austin Film Festival Writers Conference

To hear smart, funny, and interesting things about screenwriting—from people who know what they're talking about—the place to be is…

6 years ago
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Logan Lucky: How Interactions Between Genres Led to an Oscar Nomination for James Mangold’s Superhero Film

In this video essay, Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter seeks to examine the many different ways by which genre conventions can…

6 years ago