Author

Chris Watt

CHRIS WATT is a screenwriter, novelist and film critic.

A graduate of the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, Watt has contributed reviews and articles to FILM INQUIRY, SHOW THE SHARK, DEATH BY MOVIES and THE BEARD EMPORIUM and was formerly the Senior Film Critic for WATCH THIS SPACE FILM MAGAZINE.

His screenplay, MANIFEST, was produced and released by Charlatan Films in 2015. He was shortlisted in 2014, for the Shore Scripts Short Screenplay Competition, for his screenplay EVEN GOD GETS MAD IN THE TEMPLE.

His first novel, PEER PRESSURE, was published in 2012.

You can follow his word based ramblings at his site:

https://thechriswatt.wordpress.com/

Watt lives and works in the North-East of Scotland.

Spotlight

Cheek to Cheek: the art of adapting Lolita – Part Two

Chris Watt Jul 9, 2018 0

In Kubrick's version of Lolita, Mason is sublime. It's the sort of role that was tailor made for an actor of his talents. That playful, gorgeous voice, the way he moves, precisely, confidently. The smile that hides a thousand sins.

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Cheek to Cheek: the art of adapting Lolita – Part One

Chris Watt Jul 2, 2018 0

Lolita has been adapted twice for the big screen, once in 1962, by Stanley Kubrick and then later in 1997 by Adrian Lyne. In between, there have been plays, musicals, even operas that have taken Nabokov's prose, and moulded it to a new…

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