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Notes from a screenwriter
We’ve just added a new interview with the award-winning dramatist Stephen Poliakoff to the site, whose new film Glorious 39 starring Romola Garai and Bill Nighy is released in cinemas later this month.
In the Q&A he talks about how he researched the historical details for the film’s First World War setting, immersing himself in diaries and books:
“A lot of the research had been building up over the years as I got more and more interested in this period and began reading diaries…
“So diaries were great because people don’t know what’s going to happen the next day, they’re not writing in retrospect, however much they might have touched them up to make them read better. There is an authenticity of sorts Read more
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