Writing Movies

New Zealand documentary that takes a look inside the community of writers that make up Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters and…

Follows novelist Mike Enslin’s (Cusack) investigation of the famously haunted room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. He goes with the intent of disproving…

Romantic, independent drama starring Greg Kinnear as a veteran novelist, three years past his divorce, obsessing over - and spying on - his ex-wife…

A troubled screenwriter writing an adaptation written by a troubled screenwriter writing an adaptation. Charlie Kaufman's insanely genius script...

Cameron Crowe’s Oscar and Golden Globe-winning music drama follows a high-school journalist who is granted the opportunity to tour with rising rock…

The difficult life and times of celebrated author Janet Frame provided the source material for An Angel at my Table, the film that put Jane…

Steven Soderbergh's (Ocean's Eleven, Traffic) documentary on actor, playwright and master monologist Spalding Gray.

Crime and punishment have long been the domain of Anne Perry, the prolific British author of historical detective fiction: when she was 15, she and…

 A single mother and waitress (Helen Hunt), a misanthropic author (Jack Nicholson), and a gay artist (Greg Kinnear) form an unlikely friendship in…

Documentary exploring the double life of Jean Watson - an anonymous elderly writer living in a modest flat in Wellington, New Zealand. But in…

Mockumentary following a dysfunctional writers' group that collectively melts down when their newest member finds overnight success. Stars Kaley…

A biographical portrait of a young Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) and her romance with a dashing young Irishman (James McAvoy). Follows the revered…

Jean-Marc Barr (Dogville) is Jack Kerouac – known in this film as Jack Duluoz – in this dramatised adaptation of the beat author’s…

Kiwi director Jane Campion's (The Piano) drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne...

Philip Seymour Hoffman is author Truman Capote. Set in 1959, it covers the fey New York writer's dubious methods in writing In Cold Blood, his…

Documentary about writer, producer and decorated war hero Dominick Dunne, best known lately for his biting coverage of celebrity courtcases in…

Cannes 2010 was the year of Juliette Binoche. She graced the Festival’s poster; then she took the Best Actress Award for her role in this…

Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman star in this relationship drama about two romances that threaten to collapse when a man from…

Bukowski's embarrassingly honest, beatnik, solipsist, alcohol fuelled novel Factotum (n., an employee or assistant who serves in a wide range of…

The late 20th century’s fear of nuclear annihilation is explored in this documentary centred around Nevil Shute’s prophetic 1957 novel On the Beach.…

Gus Van Sant (Goodwill Hunting, Elephant

Jermaine Clement is a fruity sci-fi novelist who steals his latest book idea from a young kid. Also starring Sam Rockwell. From the director of…