Great Movies About Writers
Entertainment Weekly ran a feature today showing 14 of their favorite films about writers, in honor of the WGA strike ending. It's a pretty good sampling we think, and have decided to go one step further and dredge up some clips. We were able to find 12 of the 14 films listed, so we've included two bonuses: a clip from Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys, and a touching video of aspiring poet Vada Sultenfuss reciting a sad poem in the groundbreaking 1991 film My Girl. (We tried to find the ice cream poem, but alas were foiled.) What films did they miss?
A Face In the Crowd, 1957:
The Front, 1976
In A Lonely Place, 1950
Permanent Midnight, 1998
Barton Fink, 1991
The Dying Gaul, 2005
8 1/2, 1963
My Favorite Year, 1982
The TV Set, 2006
Adaptation, 2003
Sunset Boulevard, 1950
Leaving Las Vegas, 1995
Wonder Boys, 2000
My Girl, 1991