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Get Reel with Richard Walter
Musings about film and life from UCLA professor Richard Walter. richardwalter.substack.com
Movies and Snobbery
9 mins; March 26, 2025
Hollywood: An Egomaniac With An Inferiority Complex
9 mins; March 25, 2025
The End of Adversity
9 mins; March 21, 2025
Melody and Story
10 mins; March 20, 2025
The Brutalist
8 mins; March 15, 2025
Who Is The First Creator in Film - The Writer, Director, or Producer?
8 mins; March 13, 2025
The Oscars - Theatres Vs. Streaming
10 mins; March 10, 2025
Oscars 2025 Edition!
8 mins; March 08, 2025
Processing Criticism
8 mins; March 07, 2025
Dealing With Criticism
9 mins; February 26, 2025
Emelia Perez - What's Real and What's Reel?
9 mins; February 19, 2025
Emelia Perez and the Oscars
9 mins; February 18, 2025
The Two Principles That Guarantee Screenwriting Success
9 mins; February 12, 2025
Tis the Season - Let's Talk About the Oscars
8 mins; February 12, 2025
Song Lyrics
9 mins; February 08, 2025
Finding the Right Word
9 mins; February 07, 2025
Adapting Short Stories and Video Games
8 mins; February 05, 2025
Adaptations
9 mins; February 01, 2025
Language and Snobbery
9 mins; January 30, 2025
Dialogue... Less is More
8 mins; January 29, 2025
The Delete Key Is Every Writer's Best Friend
9 mins; January 24, 2025
Art, Adventure, Life, and Boredom
9 mins; January 16, 2025
Violence and Tushies
9 mins; January 10, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Paradise
9 mins; January 09, 2025
Why Women Are Better Writers Than Men
9 mins; January 04, 2025
Film and Artificial Intelligence
9 mins; January 01, 2025
Adaptation - Don't Do It!
9 mins; December 31, 2024
Overwriting Character Descriptions
10 mins; December 29, 2024
Novels and Screenplays and How to Turn One Into the Other and Back Again
8 mins; December 18, 2024
The Two Most Important Rules for Writers' Finances
9 mins; December 17, 2024
The Write Way and The Wrong Way
9 mins; December 11, 2024
Anora--The New Worst Movie Ever
9 mins; December 10, 2024
There Are Patterns in Film - Can You Spot Them?
8 mins; December 10, 2024
Sex, Violence, and Bambi
9 mins; December 04, 2024
Let's Talk About Vaginas in Movies
9 mins; November 28, 2024
Immigration, Diversity, and American Film
9 mins; November 27, 2024
In Screenwriting, Story Is Everything
9 mins; November 22, 2024
Screenwriting With Your Audience In Mind
10 mins; November 21, 2024
My Livestream - Part 2!
35 mins; November 18, 2024
My Livestream - Part 1
34 mins; November 18, 2024
Truth and Authenticity in Film
10 mins; November 07, 2024
Cringing When I See "Based on a True Story"
9 mins; November 06, 2024
George Lucas the Experimentalist
8 mins; October 30, 2024
A Dirty Word in Hollywood: Experiment
8 mins; October 29, 2024
Never Underestimate the Loudness of Silence
9 mins; October 27, 2024
Mood Is Doom Spelled Backward
8 mins; October 26, 2024
Angry Queries
9 mins; October 20, 2024
How Not to Get a Film Agent
8 mins; October 19, 2024
Attention!
9 mins; October 11, 2024
Let's Talk About Query Letters
8 mins; October 10, 2024
Intellectual Property and Paranoia
8 mins; October 03, 2024
Intellectual Property
9 mins; October 02, 2024
Hooray for Hollywood
10 mins; September 28, 2024
Leave Your Brain Outside the Theatre
9 mins; September 27, 2024
Art Versus Entertainment - Don't Let It Be A False Dichotomy
9 mins; September 27, 2024
The Personal Screenplay
8 mins; September 20, 2024
How Many Pages Should You Read Before Quitting a Book?
9 mins; September 14, 2024
Changes and Endings
8 mins; September 13, 2024
Free Parking, Rejection, and Screenwriting
9 mins; September 12, 2024
Reel Versus Real
8 mins; September 11, 2024
Screenplay Beginnings--Must a Script Explode on Page One?
9 mins; September 07, 2024
Too Many Screens
9 mins; September 04, 2024
Nudity in Movies
9 mins; August 23, 2024
Will You Read My Screenplay?
9 mins; August 22, 2024
Why Titanic Is Good But Not Great
8 mins; August 15, 2024
When Writing Love Stories, Don't Make This Mistake
8 mins; August 14, 2024
How to Deal with Rejection
10 mins; August 05, 2024
A Rare Thing in Film: Engaging the Audience
9 mins; July 27, 2024
How to Write Strong Beginnings
9 mins; July 26, 2024
The True First Artist in Film
9 mins; July 20, 2024
The Unsold Script
8 mins; July 19, 2024
Remember, Screenwriters: You'll Catch More Flies With Honey
9 mins; July 09, 2024
Praise Versus Kvetching
9 mins; July 08, 2024
Smoking and Integration
9 mins; July 06, 2024
Want to Get An Agent? Write to the Writer!
9 mins; July 02, 2024
Climate Change and Screenwriting
9 mins; June 25, 2024
What's Changed and What's Remained the Same In Movies
9 mins; June 22, 2024
The Two Biggest Changes in Film
8 mins; June 20, 2024
Weinstein, Spacey... Let's Dispel the Myth of Mean Old Hollywood
9 mins; June 13, 2024
Animation and Horror
9 mins; June 12, 2024
The Status of the Observer
8 mins; June 11, 2024
Excellent Versus Good
9 mins; June 03, 2024
The Ideal Training for Hollywood
9 mins; May 31, 2024
The Worst Movie I Ever Saw
9 mins; May 30, 2024
Stereotypes in Movies - Use Them Or Ditch Them?
9 mins; May 29, 2024
Jerking Off vs Making Love
9 mins; May 21, 2024
An Underrated Book on Screenwriting: Plots and Characters
10 mins; May 14, 2024
Civil War: My Thoughts
9 mins; May 13, 2024
Two Threes
8 mins; May 09, 2024
Pain In Narrative
9 mins; May 08, 2024
Brainy Writers Must Never Forget: The Heart Is Smart
9 mins; May 06, 2024
Reel Versus Real
9 mins; May 03, 2024
Great Protagonists are Dreadful People
9 mins; April 26, 2024
Identity and Community
9 mins; April 25, 2024
This and That
9 mins; April 24, 2024
What I've Been Watching, Loving, and Loathing Lately
9 mins; April 15, 2024
How to Get the Script Reader to Not Reject Your Screenplay
9 mins; April 12, 2024
How to Get the Script Reader to Not Reject Your Screenplay
9 mins; April 12, 2024
Implication Versus Expression
9 mins; April 05, 2024
Imply vs Express
9 mins; April 04, 2024
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