CS Weekly Archive > The Big Picture
Features that cover all aspects of screenwriting, from our "Seven Best" lists to analysis of old favorites and new classics.

04/20/07 — "The 7 Best Movies That Can Turn Manly Men Into Little Crybabies," by Ari Eisner

04/06/07 — "Paley Fest '07: The Simpsons: A Celebration of 400 Episodes," by Danny Munso

03/30/07 — "Paley Fest '07: An Evening with George Lucas," by Danny Munso

03/30/07 — "Keeping Austin Weird: South by Southwest 2007," by Paul Benjamin

03/30/07 — "What the Hell is The Wire? Or: Why You Should Be Watching One of the Best Shows on Television," by Matthew Reynolds

03/30/07 — "Tapping The Wire: David Simon and Friends at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences," by Matthew Reynolds

03/16/07 — "A Day at The Office: Paley Fest '07 Presents The Office," by Ari Eisner

02/23/07 — "The Seven Best British TV Shows Unavailable on American DVD," by Jason Davis

02/09/07 — "The Seven Best World War II Movies," by Jason Davis

02/02/07 — "The Seven Best Civil War Movies," by Jason Davis

01/19/07 — "The Best TV of 2006," edited by David Michael Wharton

01/12/07 — "The Best Films of 2006," edited by David Michael Wharton

12/22/06 — "Humbug Cinema: The 7 Best Christmas Movies That Aren't About Christmas," by Jason Davis

12/09/06 — "Chatting with Bogdanovich The Horror, the Horror (Films)! And The Host Seeks a Partner: Inside the AFI fest 2006," by Deirdre McGill

12/01/06 — "Reconstructing a Hero: The Richard Donner Cut of Superman II," by Jason Davis

10/27/06 — "More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Writing of Frankenstein (1931)," by Stephen Jacobs

09/15/06 — "Boldly Going: The Seven Best Original Series Star Trek Episodes," by Jason Davis

08/25/06 — "Setting a Course for Ratings Success: The Seven Best Dramatic Pilots on DVD," by Jason Davis

07/28/06 — "Writing is Rewriting: The Writers Guild Foundation Annual Craft Day—Rewriting," by Jason Fogelson

07/14/06 — "Sundance Without the Snow: Film Independent's LA Film Festival," by James Napoli

06/30/06 — "The Business of Funny: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel at the WGF's Storyteller Series," by Ari Eisner

06/09/06 — "Putting Life Into the Words: David Milch at the WGA's Storyteller Series," by Ari Eisner

06/02/06 — "To Be Continued: The Seven Best Dramatic Season-Ending Cliffhangers on DVD," by Jason Davis

05/12/06 — "The Festival That Roared: Tribeca Film Festival 2006," by Judd Bloch

01/27/06 — "The Best TV of 2005," edited by David Michael Wharton

01/13/06 — "Enter a Contest, Win a Career: Get Your Game on in BioWare's Open Competition for Video Game-Writing Jobs," by Michael Lent

01/06/06 — "The Best (and Worst) Films of 2005," edited by David Wharton

09/02/05 — "Battle in Scotland: The 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival," by Francisco Menendez

08/26/05 — "Visionquest: Filmmakers Alliance's VisionFest '05," by Nick Birren

08/12/05 — "Adaptation and Faithful Infidelity: The Writers Guild Foundation's 'Based On' Master Screenwriting Workshop," by Ginny DeFrank

08/05/05 — "The Seven Best Examples That Ante up the Anti-Hero," by Nick Birren

07/08/05 — "City of Dreams: The Los Angeles Film Festival's 'L.A. Writes Itself' Panel," by Nick Randall

07/01/05 — "Until Next Year: The 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival," by Jeff Goldsmith

06/24/05 — "The Beat Goes On: The 2005 Los Angeles Film Festival Mixes It Up With A Variety of Good Storytelling," by Jeff Goldsmith

06/24/05 — "Preserving the Craft: Quotes on Writing from the Opening of the Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library," compiled by Ginny DeFrank

06/10/05 — "One-Year Wonders: The Seven Best Cancelled TV Shows on DVD (1999-2004)," by Jason Davis

05/20/05 — "What Star Wars Means to Me: From the Minds and Childhoods of the Staff of Creative Screenwriting and CS Weekly," edited by Den Shewman

05/20/05 — "Ink on the Page or Magic in the Mind: Star Wars 10,221 Days Later," by Jason Davis

05/20/05 — "Mind the Gap: How Clone Wars Bridges Star Wars' Final Chapters," by Jason Davis

04/29/05 — "The Seven Best: Dramatic Television on DVD," by Jason Davis

04/04/05 — "24 and the Art of the Cliffhanger," by Ari Eisner

01/28/05 — "The 7 Best Inevitable Endings You Never Saw Coming," by Dennis Sampson

01/07/05 — "Creating Your Personal Character Arc in 12 Months" by Jim Mercurio

05/14/04 — Rant: "So You Say You Want to Write a Screenplay?" by Tom Matthews

04/28/04 — "Give the Drummer Some," by Tom Matthews

From the Trenches
Working screenwriters discuss in their own words a particular aspect of screenwriting, from the mechanics of writing to the personal and professional impact that writing has had on their lives. > VIEW ARCHIVE

The Art of Craft
Screenwriting experts discuss how to approach various aspects of writing and the writing life. A mini-seminar each week from the people who write the books and teach the classes. > VIEW ARCHIVE

The Big Picture

Features that cover all aspects of screenwriting, from our "Seven Best" lists to analysis of old favorites and new classics. > VIEW ARCHIVE

Expert Witness
A panel of experts assembled to provide the facts about the screenwriting business. Readers will be able have their questions answered by an agent, producer, entertainment attorney, and WGA representative—and without paying that 10% commission. > VIEW ARCHIVE

Son of a Pitch
A weekly tutorial on how to write a script. Each week deals with a different element of creating a script, with the ultimate goal to provide a step-by-step instruction manual for new writers. The guide for this is a writer just diving into screenwriting himself, who asks the pros questions any new screenwriter would have about this brave new world. > VIEW ARCHIVE

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Film, book, web site and technology reviews from a writer’s perspective. How can these items help a writer on his or her journey, or make that journey more enjoyable? > VIEW ARCHIVE

DVD Reviews
DVD reviews from a writer’s point of view. What aspects of this script and features of this DVD illuminate the writing, development, and storytelling process? > VIEW ARCHIVE