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January 6, 2014

$mattfractionblog: “cinephilearchive: “ A while ago I found a brilliant site called Diary Of A Screenwriter: Notes on Writing for Film. A perfect place for those looking for inspiration, tips and advice about writing for the screen. • The Violent...$

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cinephilearchive:
A while ago I found a brilliant site called Diary Of A Screenwriter: Notes on Writing for Film. A perfect place for those looking for inspiration, tips and advice about writing for the screen.
The Violent World of Fritz Lang
John Huston: The Poetry of Failure
Elmore Leonard: On Writing and Movies
John Sayles: Thinking In Pictures
Andrei Tarkovsky: Dialogue on Science Fiction
Claude Chabrol: The Art of Suspense
Ingmar Bergman: On Art and War
Oliver Stone: Scarface Nation
John Milius: American Outsider
Frank Darabont: On Adapting Stephen King – The Shawshank Redemption; The Green Mile
Paul Schrader: Writing, Violence and Therapy
Jim Jarmusch: America, Guns and Poetry
The Writer’s Craft: A David Mamet Interview
John Cassavetes: Chasing Shadows
Welles and Kafka: On Filming The Trial
Dialogue as Action: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Mind Games: Christopher Nolan on Narrative
Paul Schrader on ‘Performance’
Nicolas Roeg: On Truffaut, Words and Images
Stanley Kubrick: Thoughts On Narrative
Robert Towne: Remembering Chinatown
Scorsese: Goodfellas, Gangsters and Guilt
Dream As Reality: An Interview with Fellini
Writing ‘Psycho’: Interview with Joseph Stefano
Sam Peckinpah: Screening Violence
Mackendrick and Odets: The Screenwriting Process
John Michael Hayes: On Writing Rear Window
The Coen Brothers: Fargo, Crime and Realism
Antonioni Discusses The Passenger
Francois Truffaut: Autobiography and Alter Ego
Bergman: On Writing, Demons and Childhood Secrets
Schrader and Bresson: Seeing and Showing
Michael Powell: Obsession and Creativity
Claude Chabrol: The Mystery of Character
Paul Schrader: Notes On Taxi Driver
Kurosawa: Some Random Notes on Filmmaking
John Cassavetes: On the Making of Husbands
Method Writing: Tarantino and Elmore Leonard
Francis Ford Coppola: Into the Darkness
Charlie Kaufman: On Adaptation
Charlie Kaufman: On Screenwriting
Kurosawa, Tarkovsky and Solaris
Kurosawa on Kurosawa
Terrence Malick on Badlands
Woody Allen: The Art of Humor
Clint Eastwood: Straight Shooter
Charlie Chaplin: The Lost Interview
Martin Scorsese: Violence and Sin
Paul Schrader: Steps to Writing a Script
Billy Wilder: The Art of Collaboration
The End of Innocence: Kubrick on Barry Lyndon
Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalking the Stalker
Night and the City: In the Labyrinth
Jim Jarmusch: Open Letter to John Cassavetes
Kubrick’s Maze: An Interview on The Shining
Ingmar Bergman: Dialogue on Film
Michaelangelo Antonioni: A Study in Color
Alfred Hitchcock: On Making ‘The Birds’
Fritz Lang Interviewed by William Friedkin (1974). “From running away from home, to surviving by his wits, to making his classic films ‘Metropolis’ and ‘M,’ to meetings with criminals and murderers — one killer kept the hands of victims under his bed, to his meeting with the Nazi Mad Man, to Hollywood and after, Lang, looking rather like Dr Strangelove, describes his hugely fantastic life.” —Paul Gallagher
Well, there goes work for the day.