
Screenwriting


‘Charley Varrick’ (1973): Don Siegel’s Masterclass in Seamless Storytelling

‘Miller’s Crossing’ at 30: A Lamentation of Losers by the Coen Brothers

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Hard Eight’, AKA ‘Sydney’: “It’s Always Good to Meet a New Friend”

Lived All Our Best Times Left With the Worst: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’

“No One Is Just Anything”: In William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’, Four Reduced Men Must Gamble with Life to Give It Value

Carol Reed’s ‘Odd Man Out’—Too Long In ‘The Third Man’s Shadow?

New Model Arnie: How James Cameron’s ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ Held True to Its Exploitation Roots Whilst Remodelling the Action Blockbuster Template

‘Stalker’: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Merger of Contemplative Style and Transcendental Substance Designed to Put Us in the Zone
