A member of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) who has attended the Cannes and Berlin Festivals Selin Sevinç Bertero is a California-based screenwriting expert, what's known in the industry as a "script doctor." This article was taken from her blog "The Magic of Story.") To all screenwriters out there who’ve studied screenwriters handbooks, manuals and guidebooks I don't think I am alone in

Mehran Tamadon is a Paris-based filmmaker who’s spent most of his […]

Mike Nichols, auteur of "The Graduate," has passed away. He was 83. Nichols was a German-born American film and theatre director, producer, actor and comedian. He began his career in the fifties with the improv troupe the Compass Players, predecessor of the Second City in Chicago and as one half of the comedy duo Nichols & May, along with Elaine May. In 1968 Nichols won an Academy Award for Best Director for the film

If I had to guess I'd say Israelis have a love-hate relationship with military service, which is mandatory in their country for everyone and which lasts two years. In fact, it's probably a hate-hate thing. Winner of six of the equivalent of the Oscars in Israel and winner of the Best Narrative Feature Award at the Tribeca Film Festival ”Zero motivation” is a sharply observed, sometimes dark and frequently hilarious portrait of everyday

For the last forty years the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes as part of a huge photographic

In “Drug Lord: The Legend of Shorty” BAFTA- and Emmy […]

A lack of equality and the demands of the world we live in cause many people stress and, sometimes, depressino. Some of these people, however, will blow up. This new dark, funny, twisted and compelling film from Argentina called "Wild Tales" is a movie about those people. Vulnerable in the face of a reality that shifts and suddenly turns unpredictable, the characters of "Wild Tales" cross the thin line that divides

It would be ungracious to deny that David Fincher’s “Gone Girl,” lengthy as it is, whizzes past, keeping us highly entertained throughout. I haven’t read the book on which it is based so I don’t know if the structural change that has apparently caused an uproar is for the better or not. Anyway, both book and screenplay are by the same author so she’s entitled to doing what she wants with either.

Written and directed by Zachary Wigon and starring John Gallagher, […]

It was just announced that Bill Murray will reunite with […]