10/31/2014 Screenwriting
In a recent interview on “To The Stars Through Adversity” with host Svetlana Kim, Richard Walter talked about the essentials of screenwriting and his long tenure as chair of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s MFA Screenwriting Program. Listen to the full program online at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/svetlanakim/2014/10/10/richard-walter-professor-and-screenwriting-chairman-ucla
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10/19/2014 Newsletter, Opinion, Screenwriting
Not the director but the writer is film’s first artist, if for no other reason because she’s first. There’s no use for upscale stars, fancy effects, and sophisticated equipment without a worthy script. – Richard Walter LONELY AT THE TOP – A DIRECTOR’S NARCISSISM Heave a sigh of relief. If you’ve been losing sleep worrying about […]
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09/10/2014 Film Industry, Newsletter, Opinion, Screenwriting
A privilege I have enjoyed now over several decades is to travel the world lecturing, teaching master classes, and consulting on film and screenwriting issues to international audiences. I’ve taught and advised and counseled writers and producers and studio executives and national film development corporation officials all across North America and also in London, Paris, […]
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08/30/2014 DVD Clips, Screenwriting
Creative Screenwriting Magazine now carries the full set of Professor Richard Walter’s master screenwriting courses! http://creativescreenwriting.com/product/richard-walters-screenwriting-beyond-the-basics/
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08/20/2014 Newsletter, Opinion, Screenwriting
I know it’s a cold call, designed to sell me some product or cause, even before the caller speaks. Indeed, more often than not the caller doesn’t speak at all. The equipment in telephone boiler rooms dials multiple phone numbers simultaneously. The software connects with the first one that answers, hanging up on the others. […]
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08/07/2014 Film Industry, Reviews, Screenwriting
Mobile Movie Making (MMM) is an online magazine devoted to the art and technology of using smartphones and tablets to shoot videos in all genres. From MMM’s vantage point – everyone can be a movie mogul since pocket cameras are making possible a new era of moviemaking, in which the people will not only […]
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08/07/2014 Film Industry, Newsletter, Opinion, Screenwriting
Art, Picasso tells us, is the lie that tells the greater truth. Screenwriters need to learn how to lie through their teeth. As a screenwriting educator and script doctor I have seen more scripts brought down by a writer’s wrongheaded devotion to some idealized, romanticized, self-conscious, narcissistic, pie-in-the-sky notion of The Truth. In script consultation […]
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03/19/2014 Screenwriting, Workshops
Here is a rare opportunity for UCLA and non-UCLA students to enroll in an on-campus screenwriting seminar with Professor Richard Walter at UCLA. It’s easier to win admission to the Harvard Medical School than to the graduate screenwriting program that Professor Walter has chaired and co-chaired for more than thirty years. He takes you all the way […]
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03/01/2014 Screenwriting, Workshops
Professor Richard Walter will present on the “Essentials of Screenwriting” at the Alameda Writers Group Meeting on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 10:45AM. The meeting is open to the public and will take place at the Glendale Public Library on 222 East Harvard Street in Glendale, California. For more information, visit http://alamedawritersgroup.com/.
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02/27/2014 Film Industry, Opinion
The LA Times recently rounded up the annual Oscar nominees with their predictions. On deserving films for this year’s Academy Awards, here’s my view: I loathed American Hustle. O’Russell is hugely, vastly over-appreciated in my never-humble view. Like his similarly over-praised Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle is a lot of yelling and screaming and repetition. […]
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