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Screentalk #02 - Gosford Park - Jan/Feb 2002
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Life in Gosford Park with Robert Altman & Julian Fellowes - Gosford Park is a unique landmark for maverick filmmaker Robert Altman, with a who's who of British acting talent taht includes Maggie Smith, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, and Emily Watson (among others) and a razor-sharp script from fellow-Brit Julian Fellowes.
INTERVIEWS
David Arata: Spy Game's Writer Who Never Shut Up - David Arata is friendly, enthusiastic and with his latest film Spy Game, starring Brad Pitt and Hollywood heavyweight Robert Redford, he is a name that Hollywood is going to know for years to come.
Writer/Director Terry Gilliam: ""I Want Movies To Surprise, Stimulate And Shock Audiences"" - Terry Gilliam proves his ability to make people change through his films, turning their worlds upside down.
David H. Steinberg: Getting the Ball Rolling - Write what you know, the adage goes. Steinberg brings his record of youthful ingenuity to Sony Screen Gems' Slackers, starring Devon Sawa, Json Schwartzman, James King and Jason Segal.
Tom Lynch: Making Them Laugh, Think & Cry - With more shows currently on-air and in production than any other writer-producer in Hollywood - and all of them made for the hard-to-reach teen and tweenage audience - Tom Lynch has almost single-handedly made kids' television the place to be in Hollywood.
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Pitching From Another Planet - Pitching with a confidence will win loyal fans and more work&a summary of the pitching market at the Hollywood Screenwriter's Conference held in L.A. November 10-11, 2001.
Rejection Doesn't Have to Be A Dirty Word - Think rejection gets easier when you get more experience? It doesn't!
Literary Tools That Make A Script Memorable - Learn how Bookends, Symbolism and Foreshadowing, Open-Ended Dialogue and Succinct Narrative make a script more memorable.
Turning Nicholl Into Gold - Part I - These Fellows made it BIG TIME. Here's your chance to follow their year-long journey after winning the prestigious 2001 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. Exclusive to SCREENTALK.
Reader Roundtable - Part II - Entering a scriptwriting contest? You might want to know what readers and administrators representing five international contests say about the process.
Anatomy of a Screenplay Reading - Weary of marketing your screenplay? Postage bills resemble the national debt? Your Internet listings produce a guy in Iowa with a hi-8? Why not try a staged reading? See how one writer and his producer did it.
Curve Balls, Fast Balls, and Mostly Screw Balls - Hey Writers, you're not invisible to them. But here's what they see from the other side. The recipient of the pitch has a different view.
COLUMNS
Notes From the Edge - Highway to Hollywood, Screenwriters And the World Wide Web: Don't just use the web for e-mail. Use it to find valuable information to gain entry into Hollywood. The author did, and here's how it worked.
From the Trenches - Truth, Half-Truth, & Television Truth - Part II: Don't hate me because I'm new & edgy. The truth is...do they really want new & edgy, even if they think they do?
The Write Game - Goal Structures: One way of creating a sturdy story structure is by understanding and applying the right Goal Structure.
Evoking the Story Journey - Beginning at the End - Uncovering the Complexity Within Simplicity: Starting with an understanding of a story's fulfillment and final resolution, a storyteller can better understand what kind of complications might arise from a simple beginning.
Convergent Media - Digital Alchemy - The New Reality Part II: Synthespians - CGI's latest threat to actors. Producers can recreate an actor's likeness or voice in post production without having an actor at all.
Screenwriter's Cafe - Creating Your Personal Script Marketing Plan: Marketing your screenplay requires a lot of tasks and time. But the most important part of the process is attitude.
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Canadian Screenwriter John Meadows - Writing Strong Roles For Women - Meadows talks about screenwriting and his latest film Wise Girls starring Mira Sorvino, Mariah Carey and Melora Walters. In spite of tabloid gossip about trouble on the set, Wise Girls has turned out well and is due to be released in the US in the spring of 2002 by Lion's Gate Films.
Montage of Collision - ReMaking The Myth of Sergei Eisenstein - Renny Bartlett's new film Eisenstein explores the many contradictions in the great filmmaker's life and work. For Bartlett, the challenge was in how to shape Eisenstein's epic personal, political and artistic struggles into a coherent screenplay - and most of all, how to sort through the myths that he created about himself.
Suso Cecchi d'Amico - The Grand Old Dame of European Film - Suso Cecchi d'Amico is one of the most prolific writers in European film history. She has written over 100 screenplays since 1947 including The Bicycle Thief, most of Visconti's films, as well as films for Antonioni, Fellini, and Scorsese.
Screentalk #02 - Gosford Park - Jan/Feb 2002
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