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Conflict of Interest: War films from a screenwriter’s perspective
Anne-Sophie Marie talks about her experiences, new and old, with war films and how they’re shaping her current work on the subject. I’m guessing that at some point or other, every screenwriter is told that the key to a gripping story is to follow a protagonist/characters that fight through both external and internal conflict, which […] |
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Al Gore delivers thrills, and hope, with “An Inconvenient Sequel”
Anne-Sophie Marie sees how the former US Vice President’s latest call-to-arms, An Inconvenient Sequel, stacks up against recent environmentalist documentaries. Though I’m usually not the biggest documentary watcher, I went to see Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power after a bit of a documentary binge: Adam Curtis’ eerie Bitter Lake, Ava DuVernay’s powerful 13th, […] |
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Big Brother Goes To Washington: Hollywood’s relationship with the White House
What does Hollywood mean for Donald Trump? What does Donald Trump mean for Hollywood? Anne-Sophie Marie ponders the State of the Cinematic Union. When I first thought of writing something on the relationship between Washington and Hollywood, I decided to wait until Trump’s first week to get a sense of the 45th president’s impact on […] |
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M. Night Shyamalan is back in his element with “Split”
Split proves a satisfying thriller for non Shyamalan fans and a barnstorming, vindicating, return to form for diehards. After being thoroughly disappointed by the last much awaited film I saw, and remembering that M. Night Shyamalan’s work can be quite hit and miss, I walked into this one with no expectations whatsoever…and got out like a […] |
