Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. Imagine, if you will, that the Monty Python troupe were Japanese and set out to make a western about an epic quest for the perfect bowl of ramen. That’s Tampopo. Release: 1985 Starring: Ken Watanabe, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kôji Yakusho Director: Jûzô […]
Becoming a better storyteller by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. To borrow the line from the Joni Mitchell song, I could drink a case of this movie, and I would still be on my feet. It’s charming and irreverent and smart and funny and bittersweet and poignant and perfect. Release: 2017 […]
Becoming a better fiction writer by studying 100 movies, 50 screenplays, and 25 books in 2020. It’s hard to distill a single writing lesson from a novel as beloved and complex as Little Women (yes, children’s literature is complex). Further complicating the task is the need to also write about the 2019 film adaptation by Greta […]
