Screenwriting

‘The Masque of Black Death’: The Secret of Akira Kurosawa’s Last Screenplay

  The last script that Akira Kurosawa, the undisputed icon of Japanese filmmaking, wrote before his death in 1998 was…

9 years ago

Sidney Lumet’s ‘Prince of the City’ and the Moral and Psychological Turmoil at the Heart of It

  By Sven Mikulec   In a city corrupt to the bone, can a man at the same time be…

9 years ago

Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Diary

The ultimate trip began with a story called The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke. It took flight when Stanley Kubrick…

9 years ago

‘Patton’: A Most Compelling Biopic Worthy of Its Enigmatic Subject

  By Sven Mikulec As far as biographical films go, it's difficult to find a more compelling picture than Franklin…

9 years ago

‘Young Frankenstein’: Comedy Master Mel Brooks at the Peak of His Craft

The year 1974 was a rather big for then 48-year-old Mel Brooks. Seven years after his brilliant filmmaking debut with The…

9 years ago

‘Straw Dogs’: Peckinpah’s Most Controversial Blade Hasn’t Lost Any of Its Sharpness Over the Years

After Sam Peckinpah angered the studio with his Ballad of Cable Hogue, where he went 19 days over schedule and…

9 years ago

‘The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean’: An Underappreciated Elegy to the Dying West

Probably one of John Huston's most personal works, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, the 1972 Western with…

9 years ago

‘Blazing Saddles’: The Career’s Highlight of a Man Without Whom the World of Comedy Would Be a Far Gloomier Place

Whenever we start talking about the genre of film parody, it's impossible not to think of the great Mel Brooks.…

9 years ago

‘A Passage to India’: David Lean’s Rocky Road to Creating a Most Powerful Adaptation

In 1924 E.M. Forster published his highly acclaimed novel A Passage to India. Exactly sixty years later David Lean's film…

9 years ago

Don Winslow’s ‘The Cartel’: Why the Much Anticipated Novel from the Leading American Crime Writer Is Bound to Make an Impact

Don Winslow, one of the leading crime novelists in the United States today, knew what he wanted to do in…

9 years ago