winning three - including Awards for Outstanding Motion Picture and Best Screenplay. Its director, Michael Curtiz, almost quit the film early on, after language and accent differences (he was Hungarian) made for a difficult working environment for everyone involved. To illustrate the full depth of...
The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. The music score was by Maurice Jaubert. It is a notable example of the poetic realism genre. The film was the 1939 winner of France's top cinematic prize, the Prix Louis-Delluc. A scene from the film...
The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. The music score was by Maurice Jaubert. It is a notable example of the poetic realism genre. The film was the 1939 winner of France's top cinematic prize, the Prix Louis-Delluc. A scene from the film...
Does she ever! Photo : Columbia Pictures 19. ADAPTATION (2002) Directed by Spike Jonze. Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, based on the book ‘The Orchid Thief’ by Susan Orlean. Starring Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, Maggie Gyllenhaal. There...
“Mank” Mankiewicz, and his time developing the screenplay for “Citizen Kane” while recuperating from a broken leg he sustained in a car wreck. “Mank” is a wonderful retelling of Hollywood history in its glory days, capturing the politics of the studio system and the power plays of men...
When I first heard aboutThe Greatest Movie Ever Sold, it immediately sounded like it could have the potential to be a fascinating study of movie product placement – something which now drives the modern film industry. Then I found out that it was helmed byMorgan Spurlockand my expectations we...
And finally The Bible of screenwriting. Ultimately, that is because Goldman is the onlygreat screenwriterto have written a great book about screenwriting. There is practical advice, such as the chapter in which he writes a screenplay about a phenomenally gifted hairdresser before realizing that the...
The first installment, Blue, was an agonizingly exquisite artwork, casting Juliette Binoche as Julie de Courcy, the widow of a composer, whose work she may have ghost-written herself. The film follows her along the trail of unlocking her deceased husband's secret life, while she starts a ...
Roman Polanski’sChinatownbrings out the classic film noir look of the 1940s, and who better than Jack Nicholson to play the lead role in, arguably, one of the best films in the history of cinema. Apart fromCasablanca, Chinatownhas one of the greatest scripts ever written. ...
It was, however, nominated for several of each, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. The Bridge on the River Kwai Year Released: 1957 This 1957 epic war film is based on the 1952 novel of the same name written by Pierre Boulle. With a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it ...