Burdened with a craft that's essentially uncinematic, writers in the movies are perennially blocked, broke, and insane, simultaneously romanticized and ...

a simple how to on writing an independent screenplay, from your about.com guide.

Romain Duris stars in Laurent Tirard's charming bio about the great French writer focuses on the years between his release from prison in 1645 at age 22 and ...

Agnès Jaoui's wonderful second feature "Look At Me" opens this year's New York Film Festival. The film, which already won the best screenplay award at ...

The women in Andrew Wagner's second film "Starting Out in the Evening," based on the novel by Brian Morton, tend to beam and glow an awful lot. Aging writer ...

The screenplay and direction of Emmanuel Bourdieu's "Poison Friends" is as pompous and blind to reality as its main character Andre Morley.

Snoop Dogg and Dylan McDermott star as competing writers in Danny Green's earnest and cliched adaptation of a Bernard Malumud novel.

Review of the Charles Bukowski documentary "Born Into This" by John Dullaghan.

Iris DVD: Kate Winslet and Judi Dami create a memorable portrait of Iris Murdoch in this Oscar winning film about the English writer.

Factotum, Bent Hamer's new film about hard-living poet Charles Bukowski, is the kind of movie that will have you toast the screen with a drink--if you've ...