A young Norwegian woman tries to make it as a screenwriter in the Danish film industry. Unfortunately, she runs out of ideas before she even gets started. Like the rest of film history's self-conscious wannabes, however, she is good at creating visual montages of the classic poses of writer's block. It doesn't help. You can't make a film without at least one good idea.
Theresa Frostad Eggesbø
Anna
Mikkel Hilgart
Instruktør
Marie Christensen
Mathias Bøgelund
Oliver
Anna Nøhr Tolstrup
Konsulent
Niels Dampe
Anton Honik
Maria Cordsen
Aksel Jepsen
A young Norwegian woman tries to make it as a screenwriter in the Danish film industry. Unfortunately, she runs out of ideas before she even gets started. Like the rest of film history's self-conscious wannabes, however, she is good at creating visual montages of the classic poses of writer's block. It doesn't help. You can't make a film without at least one good idea.
Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penetrating insights in "Tales from the Script," the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the upcoming HarperCollins book of the same name.
When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked, he knows he has to unblock her or he's finished. With her newfound success, she's become too happy and she can't write when she's happy. The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realizes he's in love with her.
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman and Orlean's book become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the other's.
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.