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Hamburg wrote and directed the crime comedy Safe Men, which played at Sundance and spawned a devoted cult following. A sure-thing comedy closer, the New York City native built hilarious set pieces and character work into
Jeff Nathanson is easily among the A-list of Hollywood screenwriters, His script for Catch Me If You Can earned him much critical praise, as well as the devotion of Steven Spielberg, who also brought him to work on his n
David Seltzer knows Hollywood. He knows the business, the tricks of the trade and all the hidden truths. He's got the stories from working with Jacques Cousteau, penning the horror classic The Omen and adapting Roald Dah
Simon Kinberg recently burst onto the scene with his script for XXX: State of the Union, and has since worked on comic-to-film adaptations for Elektra and Fantastic Four and penned the third film in the X-Men series, X-M
NIA VARDALOS was nominated for the Academy Award® and the Writers Guild Award in 2003 for her breakthrough screenplay My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was based on her one-woman play. The film became the highest-grossing
Writer, director, producer MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ is one of the most prominent figures in film and television. With partner Ed Zwick, whom he met while attending the American Film Institute, Herskovitz created and executive
Peter and Bobby Farrelly have single, or rather double-handedly reinvented the comedy. Their films Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, Shallow Hal and Me, Myself & Irene combined shocking-but-hilarious gro
Updates a number of themes from the Cosmos television series. Turner and Sagan discuss issues that are vital to our survival: pollution, the greenhouse effect, and nuclear weapons. Dr. Sagan explains the benefits of our
Animals, Whores & Dialogue is more than just a sequel to Wayne Ewing's 2003 Breakfast with Hunter which Variety declared to be a movie "that captures the essence of his [Hunter Thompson's] jazzy pop journalism." This
A reflection on how silence functions not as emptiness but as presence within both Korean and English. Through examples from Beloved and Ran, the essay explores silence as memory, dignity, and an alternative form of expr
Ted Griffin is a man who knows a good con. Anyone who tried to follow the clever criminal head games he built into his screenplays for Ocean's Eleven and Matchstick Men knows not to trust this guy; except when he talks a
Nine philosophical films directed by John, covering nine themes: epistemology, ethics, economics, metaphysics, social science, natural science, aesthetics... Inspired by Socrates, they explore various problems through th
Dialogue/ Loving yourself as you would love another is an interdisciplinary video poem that uses drag, poetry, and abstract movement to explore queer adolescence as a relationship of self-looking. The film, and correspon
Now a well-known screenwriter, Robin Swicord started out as a copywriter and playwright. In this frank interview, part of a series of discussions with top film writers, she talks about her Hollywood success. Offering an
In this installment of the Learning from the Masters series, screenwriter Jim Uhls explains how he wrote the screenplay for Chuck Palahniuk's seemingly unadaptable novel Fight Club, which became the subversive 1999 hit d
Lying in total darkness, two young immortals discuss whether it is time to create the World once again. A cosmogonic screwball comedy.
Poised to become one of the most successful screenwriting teams in Hollywood, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci are certainly in striking position. A team who became just that after meeting in high school, they have frequen
Few screenwriters can concentrate for more than a few hours, let alone sustain a career in Hollywood for over 30 years. But the blockbuster comedy writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel has been making television
Nine philosophy films directed by John Occam Yu, covering nine themes: epistemology, ethics, economics, metaphysics, social science, natural science, aesthetics, capitalism... Inspired by Socrates, they explore various p
“When I was a child, as soon as night fell, we had to guide my mother on the paths…” Here is a fragment of a personal investigation, an attempt to go back through the generations in order to touch a moment of change.