Memento - How Christopher Nolan Leveraged Curiosity Over Suspense (WGA's best screenplays #100)
How do you create suspense in a film that moves backwards? Nolan’s ingenious solution to that is what makes Memento so fascinating and effective.
Notorious - How to Make A Nazi Likable (WGA's best screenplays #101)
The first film (technically last) on the WGA’s best screenplays list teaches us how to make even a Nazi into a sympathetic character, and why getting drunk can cause a lot of suspense.
Marriage Story - How Noah Baumbach Used Hitchcockian Suspense to Create Empathy
You might not expect it from a relationship drama, but Baumbach employs a mechanism of Hitchockian suspense at a crucial moment in the story, and it surprisingly, perfectly fits into the story’s overall design and theme.