the shape of water

  • First Draft

First Draft: 15 Outside-the-Box Screenplays That Found Box Office Success

In partnership with Creative Screenwriting and ScreenCraft, “First Draft” is a series on everything to do with screenwriting. While pundits will testify to…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

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
  • Directing

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2018: Academy Award-Nominated Directors Get Candid About Their Films

With three titans of cinema and two of the most acclaimed and promising debutants in years in attendance, it was…

6 years ago
  • Things Learned

Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Jenkins

Courtesy of the Academy-Award nominated star of The Shape of Water, here are 10 rules for building, and sustaining, a…

6 years ago
  • First Draft

First Draft: Read the 2018 Oscar Nominees for Best Original and Adapted Screenplay

Are you aching to read and learn from the 2018 Oscar-nominated scripts? Look no further because we have them all…

6 years ago
  • Directing

The Shape of Water: Del Toro Likes Digital, Octavia Spencer Quits Period Pieces, Guy in the Fish Suit Deserves an Oscar

High on the list of the greatest contributions Mexico has given to the world, Guillermo del Toro’s monster-fueled mind exudes…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

2017 AFI Fest Preview: 10 Films and Filmmakers From This Year’s Line-Up You Should Track Down

Returning for the 31st round, AFI Fest continues to have some of the most striking, innovative, and exciting filmmaking in…

6 years ago
  • Festivals

Context and Conversation: The Discourse within Telluride’s Programming

It is a common feature of film festivals for the selections in the program to be conversant with one another.…

7 years ago