culture Three Bullets from The Greenock Kid: The Westerns of Alan Sharp Ray Banks By the time Alan Sharp arrived in Hollywood to begin his screenwriting career at the age of thirty-six, he had already lived a dozen lives.
culture Walter Hill’s screenplay for ‘The Driver’ is the best screenwriting school you can get Cinephilia & Beyond Walter Hill’s "The Driver" can definitely be labeled as another one of this great professional’s stories with strong, masculine protagonists...
culture Alexander Jacobs: A Bastard Made of Concrete Ray Banks February, 1965: a snowy day in the Quantock Hills of Somerset. 32-year-old John Boorman was hard at work on his debut feature, 'Catch Us If You Can'...
culture Eleven Films Based on the Writings of the American ‘Dimestore Dostoevsky’ – Jim Thompson Sven Mikulec “Dashiell Hammett, Horace McCoy and Raymond Chandler,” American writer Ronald Verlin Cassill once wrote, “none of these men ever wrote a book within...
culture The Cinematic Legacy of Raymond Chandler Koraljka Suton Novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago, spent his early years in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, but moved to England after his alcoholic...
culture The Cinematic Legacy of W.R. Burnett Koraljka Suton American novelist and screenwriter William Riley Burnett enjoyed a prolific career that spanned more than five decades. Born in Springfield, Ohio...
culture From Punk Ambitions to Accomplished Author: For Writer Julian Meiojas, the Secret of Success Lies in His ‘DNA’ Sven Mikulec After years of working in TV production and writing for shows like 'White Collar', 'Shades of Blue', 'The Flash', 'Code Black, 'Jack Ryan' and ...
