Archive - 5AM StoryTalk

How to Survive Your Biggest Mistakes as an Artist

25 filmmakers, authors, and comic book writers from around the globe discuss what they learned from their worst professional and creative missteps

Apr 23 •

'Civil War' Highlights a Growing Divide in American Culture...and Not in the Way You Think

Let's see what we can learn from the reaction of many liberals, critics, and screenwriters to director Alex Garland's latest film

Apr 20 •

Weekly Question: What are some of your favorite short stories?

Between my third year at university and thirty years old, I penned some one hundred short stories with varying degrees of success. I considered …

Apr 18 •

Q&A: Screenwriter Dara Resnik Is Living Out Loud

The 'Home Before Dark' and 'The Horror of Dolores Roach' showrunner discusses her fearless approach to storytelling

Apr 16 •

10 Screenplays by the Great Walter Hill to Download and Study

The Writers Guild of America awarded the legendary filmmaker its Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement this week - now read ten of his iconic…

Apr 15 •

Sometimes a Staircase Is Just a Staircase...or Is It?

Francis Ford Coppola has some thoughts on 'The Godfather' that proves how hard it can be to interpret the intentions of storytellers

Apr 13 •

Weekly Question: What's the best film you've ever seen about writers?

Weekly questions’ comment sections are left open for one week. This question has expired and the comments section locked. I’ll start this week’s…

Apr 11 •

Q&A: Screenwriter VJ Boyd Knows How to Make You Squirm

From 'Justified' and 'Lincoln Rhyme' to, later this year, 'The Madness', the recently minted showunner talks his professional journey, creative…

Apr 9 •

15 Tracking Shots to Blow Your F@cking Mind

A collection of some of my favorite long takes for you to study (after you get done scraping your detonated brains off the wall)

Apr 8 •

Is This the Greatest Tracking Shot in Film History?

Nearly a century old, it continues to astonish...

Apr 6 •

5AM StoryTalk Coffee Reading: Issue 12

A compilation of new and older arts-related articles that you might've missed

Apr 5 •

Weekly Question: What comic book made you fall in love with reading comics?

Weekly questions’ comment sections are left open for one week. This question has expired and the comments section locked. Earlier this week, I s…

Apr 4 •

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