FilmCraft: Screenwriting

by Tim Grierson

Overview

Screenwriting looks at the foundation on which every great film is built - the script. Whether an original concept or an adaptation, the screenplay is the key to the success of a movie - good dialogue, story pacing and character development are the framework everything else hangs on. Featuring in-depth interviews with modern masters of film including Stephen Gaghan, Guillermo Arriaga, Caroline Thompson, Hossein Amini, David Hare, David Webb Peoples and Jean-Claude Carrière, this book reveals the mysteries behind how the best scripts are written and reach the screen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781570517
Publisher:	Octopus
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Series:	FilmCraft
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	48 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Tim Grierson is a film and music critic whose writing has appeared in Screen International, L.A. Weekly, Backstage, The Village Voice, Revolver, Vulture, Wired and Blender, as well as on About.com, IFC.com, Yahoo Movies and Gawker.com. He is the co-author of FilmCraft: Cinematography – a profile of the world’s greatest cinematographers – and the author of the Mark Everett biography Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels. Tim has served on the jury of the City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) Film Festival, and is currently vice president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Table of Contents

Interviewees include:

Simon Beufoy
Jean-Claude Carriere
Richard Curtis
David Hare
Ronald Harwood
Charlie Kaufman
Mike Leigh
David Mamet
Peter Morgan
Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Eric Roth
Alvin Sargent
Aaron Sorkin
Quentin Tarantino
Steven Zaillian