https://dan-bronson.com/tags/movies/Recent content in Movies on Dan Bronson — Author, ScreenwriterHugoen-usFri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-end-of-the-affair/Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-end-of-the-affair/<p>Those of you who know me know that I’ve always been head over heels in love with the movies. I gave up the total security of a tenured professorship to come to Hollywood and ride the Tinseltown roller coaster. The dizzying up and downs did nothing to abate my passion for film. They simply fed my romantic obsession. But now, my friends, it is my sad duty to announce the end of the affair.</p>https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-invisible-man/Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://dan-bronson.com/posts/the-invisible-man/<p>Last month I had the honor of opening the NoirCon convention of dark mystery writers and fans by introducing and commenting on a screening of <em>Chinatown</em>.</p> <p>One of the questions I dealt with was the authorship of this, the greatest of all film noirs. The long-acknowledged writer of the screenplay is, of course, the celebrated Robert Towne. Legendary for his uncredited efforts on <em>Bonnie and Clyde</em> and <em>The Godfather</em> and for his authorship of other masterworks like <em>The Last Detail</em> and <em>Shampoo</em>, Towne won the Academy Award for Best Writing for his work on <em>Chinatown</em>, but the story turns out to have been much more complicated than that.</p>