Be The Best Writer You Can
Wonderful example of how you don’t need a budget or any experience (he’s 13) to make your mark as a film maker. It’s not a drama, but I’d love to see what he does if he ever makes one. This is where I live. (Make sure you expand the video out to full screen when [...]
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Well, of course, a lot of people like Twilight a lot. Boxofficemojo tells us Breaking Dawn, the 4th in the series, has pulled in $226 million in 13 days, and the entire series over $1billion. That’s a lot of ticket sales, from a lot of happy viewers. But you know what I mean. The whole [...]
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If you’re a late night Youtuber, like I can be, you’ll appreciate that there are some wonderful things out there on the internet. And I don’t mean that ironically. The BFI Archive is one of them. It’s a massive depository of archive films from the last hundred years of Britain’s history. From a recent Q&A with [...]
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I finally succumbed and got the pilot for Caprica from iTunes. (I know, but I live in the UK. It’s hell keeping up with US drama sometimes.) I loved the first three series of Battlestar Galactica, deeply, fervently. Apart from a nostalgic cleaving to some Doctor Who episodes, on the whole I tend to avoid [...]
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Saw this last week, and liked it. I wanted to love it, but I liked it. Clever idea, but an idea that we’d seen before. The Manchurian Candidate is too far away for a real comparison, but its shadow did fall across this one. Leonardo was Ok, but I was more interested in seeing just [...]
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So my friend, a grown woman and a hardened horror film goer, a connoisseur of gore, a genuine terror and torment addict, goes to see this movie and comes out so “thrilled” that for two nights afterwards she can’t sleep without the light on. On the other hand, my teenage daughter goes with a gang [...]
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I’m not a regular theatre goer, but this was an easy call. Beckett is a legendary writer, Simon McBurney is the legendary director of the Complicite Theatre Company, Mark Rylance is reputed to be one of the best actors in the world right now, and Tom Hickey and Miriam Margolyes are both stellar in their [...]
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Slumdog Millionaire storms the WGA Awards and the Baftas. Plus all the other results…
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Mike Leigh’s Happy Go Lucky is a great movie. Simple, poignant, and beautiful. All things I like. So why didn’t it – quite – work?
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This is a controversial one. It’s a pragmatic piece of advice, that doesn’t feel very pure to me because it’s based on my personal taste rather than any rules of drama (if there are such things) – and it also flies in the face of the success of one of the biggest movie successes in [...]
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How To Write A Screenplay