Hollywood Screenwriter Neil Landau’s New Book “The Screenwriter’s Roadmap”
On a Friday night in Denver, about a dozen movie gurus and aspiring writers ventured out into the chilly December air to hear Hollywood screenwriter Neil Landau speak at the Tattered Cover Bookstore. With screenwriting credits like “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” and “Melrose Place,” among others, Landau has had his share of success...
Tattered Cover Screenwriting Workshop Features Hollywood’s Neil Landau
Neil Landau, whose successful career as an established Hollywood screenwriter and script consultant has spanned over two decades, knows first hand how to navigate the rough terrains of writing a screenplay. He shares his insight in his second book, “The Screenwriter’s Roadmap: 21 Ways to Jumpstart Your Story.” Addressing the major obstacles of screenwriting, the...
Phil Solomon: 2012 USA Knight Fellow
Today, Phil Solomon was named a United States Artists (USA) Knight Fellow at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA and became the winner of their $50,000 grant. Mr. Solomon is a world-renowned experimental filmmaker working in both film and video. His films often integrate the use of photochemical film emulsions that transform historical and...
Scott Takeda: Denver’s Funny Storyteller
Scott Takeda is a short, Asian, funny man. He is also an actor (he prefers the title “Storyteller), director, owns his own production company (Takeda Entertainment Inc.), has won five Emmys, acted alongside Hollywood big wigs like Naomi Watts and Will Ferrell and does stand-up comedy. Phewph. Clearly Takeda has enough reasons to...
Watch This: My Amityville Horror
The house at 112 Ocean Ave. in Amityville, NY has become the stuff of legend. When the Lutz family moved into the house in December of 1975, it had been vacant for 13 months following the infamous DeFeo family murder case. The events that followed would become a world-famous haunting that captivated an entire generation...
The Reel Deal: SDFF Star Sightings
Last week, the 35th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival launched its November campaign with a string of musical foursomes. On opening night, actor Mark Ivanir was on hand for the Denver premiere of A Late Quartet, the story of four musicians struggling to stay together amidst a series of personal crises. Later, on the festival’s...
Spoiler Alert: HOT New Movie
It’s a bold move to open a film festival with a movie that, on the surface, deals with classical music. In an age where Snookie and anti-intellectualism reign supreme, genuine intrigue and talent are frequently ignored—certainly not celebrated. All that changed when the Starz Denver Film Festival opened with a red carpet event and a...
Watch This: Bidder 70
On December 19, 2008, while protesters were circling outside of a government oil and gas lease auction in Utah, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher quietly breezed in and registered as bidder #70. Only a 27-year-old economics student at the University of Utah at the time, by no means did Tim have the intention, nor the funds,...
The Reel Deal: SDFF Spotlight on Colorado
Since 1897, Colorado has had a long standing tradition of terrific film and television production. In 1902, there was a silent short called “Fun In The Glenwood Springs Pool.” In the 50s and 60s, great Westerns like The Maverick Queen (1956), Cat Ballou (1965), Stagecoach (1966), True Grit (1969), and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance...
The Reel Deal: 35th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival
The political propaganda is everywhere, the politicians are stumping and debating and mudslinging, and the ballots are piling up, ready to be counted. Election Day is right around the corner – a celebration of our freedom of speech. Our voices. Our choices. This week, as the Presidential race comes down the home stretch and state...
Opening Tonight in Denver: Diana Vreeland The Eye Has to Travel
Opening tonight at The Esquire in Denver, the critically acclaimed documentary Diana Vreeland The Eye Has to Travel is an intimate portrait and a vibrant celebration of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century, an enduring icon who has had a strong influence on the course of fashion, beauty, publishing and culture....





























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