Kevin Smith on Screenwriting: Part II
In the second of a two part series, Kevin Smith continues his journey through his early films, from Dogma to Jersey Girl.
By Peter N. Chumo II, George Khoury and Steve Ryfle. Clerks, Kevin Smith’s first film, came out of nowhere to shatter longheld notions of what independent film is all about. The movie looked like crap, it featured amateur actors, and was infused with the lowbrow humor (one girl copulates with a dead guy, another has […]
Kevin Smith on Screenwriting, Part I
In the first of a two-part series, Kevin Smith takes us on a journey through his so-called 'Jersey Trilogy' of early films, from Clerks to Chasing Amy.
By Peter N. Chumo II, George Khoury and Steve Ryfle. Clerks, Kevin Smith’s first film, came out of nowhere to shatter longheld notions of what independent film is all about. The movie looked like crap, it featured amateur actors, and was infused with the lowbrow humor (one girl copulates with a dead guy, another has […]
“I don’t want anyone else to screw up the delivery of these lines” – Coogan on Philomena
Retracing his characters’ journey helped Steve Coogan not only to write Philomena but to play the journalist at the center of the story.
By Peter N. Chumo II. Philomena began with a photograph, specifically a photo that accompanied an article that actor-writer Steve Coogan (24 Hour Party People) read four years ago. The 2009 story, titled “The Catholic church sold my child,” was published in the Guardian online and told the heartbreaking story of how Philomena Lee, an […]
Honoring the Little Moments: Lost in Translation
An interview with Sofia Coppola, and an examination of her Oscar-winning screenplay.
By Peter N. Chumo II. When Sofia Coppola began writing Lost in Translation, her first original screenplay after her adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, she knew there were certain elements she wanted to build the movie around. “From the time I spent in Japan,” she told me, “I always wanted to do a movie there, […]
