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All About Me
Script Consultation
Favorite Movie Quote
"I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons."
Lorraine Minosa from Ace in the Hole, aka The Big Carnival
Lorraine Minosa from Ace in the Hole, aka The Big Carnival
Screenwriting
Playwriting
OBSERVATIONS OF A SCREENPLAY READER
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Tenth, which is also Part the Last: What I Look For and What I Like in screenplays
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Ninth: Horror
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Eighth: More Genre Issues: Mystery/Thriller etc. Section three: Murder Mysteries/Conspiracies
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Eighth: More Genre Issues: Mystery/Thriller, etc., Section Two: Tricky Plots and Twist Endings
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Eighth: More Genre Issues: Mystery/Action/Thriller, etc. Section One: Miscellaneous issues
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Seventh, Genre Observations: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Sixth, Genre Observations: Rom Coms
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Fifth, Opening Scenes
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Fourth, Action/Chase/Fight Scenes and Sex Scenes
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Third: Narrative and Formatting-Part Two
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Third: Narrative and Formatting-Part One
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the Second, Incomprehensible Screenplays
- WHAT I LEARNED READING FOR CONTESTS THIS YEAR: Part the First, Incomprehensible Screenplays
- Backstage at a screenplay contest August 26, 2009
- Backstage at a screenplay contest, August 24, 2009
- Backstage at a screenplay contest, August 22, 2009
- Backstage at a contest: August 12, 2009
- Where are the police when you need them
- Use of ironic and smirk
- Writing mysteries/thrillers/film noirs
- Things the piss screenplay readers off: industry standard and basic narrative rights and wrongs
- Writing opening scenes that are grabbers
- Things that piss screenplay readers off: see films outside your comfort zone
- Things that piss script readers off: overwriting narrative
- Things that piss script readers off: overuse of slug lines
- Where have all the good screenplays gone?
- Know Your Job: Storyboarding Deux
- Does Size Matter-how long should narrative paragraphs be
- How to Please a Screenplay Reader
- Proust or Hemingway-what goes into a narrative paragraph
- Know Your Job: Storyboard on your own time
OBSERVATIONS ON FILMMAKING/SCREENWRITING
- WHAT IS EASIER: FOR A DIRECTOR TO BECOME A GOOD SCREENWRITER OR A SCREENWRITER TO BECOME A GOOD DIRECTOR
- TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR SCREENWRITERS: A Personal View
- YET ANOTHER FOLLOW UP WITH ANOTHER LITERARY REFERENCE ON WHETHER SCREENWRITERS CREATE THE BLUEPRINTS OR THE VISION FOR A FILM: a scene from The Glittering Prizes
- FOLLOW UP TO MY ESSAY ON WHETHER SCREENWRITERS CREATE THE BLUEPRINTS OR THE VISION FOR A FILM: A scene from The Fountainhead
- SCREENPLAYS ARE NOTHING MORE THAN BLUEPRINTS FOR A FILM: I CALL SHENNANIGANS
- Visual Storytelling as Opposed to Dialog
- Viagra needed
- December 17, 2012
- November 6, 2012
- Do writers have anything to say
- October 14, 2012
- October 14, 2012
- August 27, 2012
- August 22, 2012
- August 19, 2012
- August 17, 2012
- August 16, 2012
- August 15, 2012
- ZEITGEIST, SCHMEITGEIST
SCREENWRITING TOPICS; FACEBOOK DISCUSSIONS
MOVIE REVIEWS 2014
MOVIE REVIEWS 2013
- 12 Years a Slave
- 15 Years and a Day
- 5 Broken Cameras
- 56 Up
- Adore
- Adore
- Aftermath
- Aliyah
- All is Lost
- American Hustle
- Arthur Newman
- Attack, The
- August: Osage County
- Bastards
- Beautiful Creatures
- Before Midnight
- Birth of the Living Dead
- Blancanieves
- Bling Ring, The
- Blue Caprice
- Blue Jasmine
- Blue is the Warmest Color
- Byzantium
- Camille Claudel 1915
- Canyons, The
- Captain Phillips
- Closed Curtain
- Company You Keep, The
- Concussions
- Congratulations!
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Dark Tourist
- Dirties, The
- Dirty Wars
- Disconnect
- Don Jon
- Dorfman in Love
- East, The
- Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
- Elysium
- Enough Said
- Escape From Tomorrow
- Fifth Estate, The
- Fire in the Blood
- Frances Ha
- Frozen
- Fruitvale Station
- Gatekeepers, The
- German Doctor, The
- Ginger & Rosa
- Gloria
- Gravity
- Great Beauty, The
- Great Gatsby, The
- Great Passage, The
- Hannah Arendt
- Her
- Hijacking, A
- History of Future Folk, The
- Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, The
- Hunger Games, The: Cathing Fire
- I'm So Excited
- Iceman, The
- In a World...
- In the House
- Informant
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Iron Man 3
- It's a Disaster
- Jack the Giant Killer
- Kill Your Darlings
- Kings of Summer, The
- Lee Daniels' The Butler
- Let My Peopl Go!
- Like Someone in Love
- Look of Love, The
- Lore
- Love is All You Need
- Machete Kills
- Man of Steel
- Monk, The
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Mud
- Museum Hours
- Nebraska
- No
- No
- Now You See Me
- Oblivion
- On the Road
- Only God Forgives
- Out in the Dark
- Out of the Furnace
- Oz The Great and Powerful
- Pacific Rim
- Past, The
- Patience Stone, The
- Philomena
- Place Byond the Pines, The
- Populaire
- Populaire
- Prince Avalanche
- Prisoners
- Rabbi's Cat, The
- Reality
- Rush
- Sal
- Salinger
- Saving Mr. Banks
- Seduced and Abandoned
- Shanghai Calling
- Short Term 12
- Short Term 12
- Side Effects
- Sightseers
- Silence, The
- Single Shot, A
- Spectacular Now, The
- Spring Breakers
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Stoker
- Stories We Tell
- Stranger By the Lake
- Thanks for Sharing
- This is the End
- To the Wonder
- Tom at the Farm
- Touch of Sin, A
- Upstream Color
- Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
- War Witch
- Wasteland
- Way, Way Back, The
- We Are What We Are
- We and the I, The
- What Masie Knew
- White House Down
- Wolf of Wall Street
- Wolverine, The
- World War Z
- World's End, The
- Yossi
- You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
- You Will Be My Son
MOVIE REVIEWS 2012
- Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry
- Amazing Spider-Man, The
- Amour
- Angel's Share, The
- Any Day Now
- Appropriate Adult
- Arbitrage
- Argo
- Avengers, The
- Barbara
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Berberian Sound Studio
- Bernie
- Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
- Better Life, A
- Beyond the Hills
- Bourne Legacy, The
- Brave
- Bullhead
- Burn
- Cabin in the Woods, The
- Caeser Must Die
- Carnage
- Cat in Paris, A
- Central Park Five, The
- Cheerful Weather for a Wedding
- Clandestine Childhood
- Cloud Atlas
- Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
- Collaborator
- Combat Girls
- Compliance
- Cosmopolis
- Craigslist Joe
- Dangerous Method, A
- Dark Horse
- Dark Knight Rises, The
- Declaration of War
- Deep Blue Sea, The
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
- Django Unchained
- Easy Money
- Electrick Children
- End of Watch
- Everybody in Our Family
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Eye of the Storm, The
- Flight
- Footnote
- Frankenweenie
- Gayby
- Goodbye First Love
- Grey, The
- Haywire
- Headhunters
- Hell and Back Again
- Hitchcock
- Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The
- Holy Motors
- How to Survive a Plague
- Hunger Games, The
- Hunt, The
- I Wish
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Movement
- Imposter, The
- In Darkness
- Innkeepers, The
- Intouchables, The
- Invisible War, The
- Iron Lady, The
- Keep the Lights On
- Kill List
- Killer Joe
- Kon-Tiki
- Kung Fu Panda 2
- Laurence Anyways
- Lawless
- Les Miserables
- Life of Pi
- Lincoln
- Looper
- Lunch
- Madrid 1987
- Magic Mike
- Margaret
- Master, The
- Miss Bala
- Moonrise Kingdom
- Natural Selection
- Norwegian Wood
- On the Sea (Sul Mare) (2012)
- Oranges, The
- Oscar Documentary Shorts 2011
- Our Children
- Paperboy, The
- Perks of Being a Wallflower, The
- Polisse
- Prometheus
- Promised Land
- Quartet
- Raid: Redemption, The
- Rebellion
- Road, The (2011)
- Royal Affair, A
- Rust and Bone
- Safety Not Guaranteed
- Savages
- Sessions, The
- Seven Psychopaths
- Shame
- Side by Side
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Sister
- Skyfall
- Snow White and the Hunstman
- Something in the Air
- Take This Waltz
- Thin Ice
- To Rome With Love
- Turn Me On, Damn It
- Unforgivable
- Warrior
- We Have A Pope
- West of Memphis
- Woman in Black, The
- Zero Dark Thirty
MISC. MOVIES
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- 8 1/2 (1963)
- Battleground (1949)
- Big Sky, The (1952)
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
- Cat 'o Nine Tails (1971)
- Chase, The (1966)
- Entertainer, The (1960)
- Equinox Flower (1958)
- Flying Down to Rio (1933)
- Grand Illusion (1937)
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
- History is Made at Night (1937)
- Hud (1963)
- Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)
- Last Deadly Mission, The (aka MR 73) (2008)
- Music Lovers, The (1970)
- Night Train to Munich (1941)
- OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
- Pan Tadeusz (1999)
- Promised Land, The (1975)
- Pulp (1972)
- Quadrophenia (1979)
- Shanghai Gesture, The (1941)
- Stendahl Syndrome, The (1996)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
Movie Reviews 2011
Movie Reviews 2010
- 127 Hours
- 20 Cigarettes
- 3 Idiots
- 8: The Mormon Proposition
- Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector, The
- Alice in Wonderland
- American, The
- Animal Kingdom
- Another Year
- Art of the Steal, The
- Biutiful
- Black Swan
- Blue Valentine
- Brotherhood
- Cairo Time
- Carancho
- Carlos
- Casino Jack and the United States of Money
- City Island
- Crazies, The
- Cyrus
- Date Night
- District 13 Ultimatum
- Dogtooth
- Dossier K
- Edge of Darkness
- Enter the Void
- Everyone Else
- Father of My Children, The
- Fighter, The
- Fish Tank
- Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
- Get Low
- Ghost Writer, The
- Girl on the Train, The
- Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, The
- Girl Who Played With Fire, The
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The
- Green Zone
- Greenberg
- Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench
- Handsome Harry
- Happiness Runs
- Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suess
- Harmony and Me
- Heartbreaker
- Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
- Hernanos, Dos
- Hideaway
- Hot Tub Time Machine
- Human Resource Manager, The
- I Am Love
- Illusionist, The
- In a Better World
- Inception
- Iron Man 2
- It Came From Kuchar
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
- Kids Are All Right, The
- Killer Inside Me, The
- King's Speech, The
- Life During Wartime
- Mesrine, Part I: Killier Instinct
- Mesrine, Part I: Killier Instinct
- Mesrine, Part II: Public Enemy #1
- Most Dangerous Man in America, The
- Mother
- Mother and Child
- My Father's Guests
- My Name Is Khan
- Mysteries of Lisbon
- Myth of the American Sleepover, The
- Outside the Law
- Please Give
- Rabbit Hole
- Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
- Red Riding Trilogy, The
- Restrepo
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
- Secret in Their Eyes, The
- Sex and the City 2
- Shutter Island
- Social Network, The
- Sphinx
- Submarino
- Terribly Happy
- The Kids Are All Right
- Tiny Furniture
- Town Called Panic, A
- Town, The
- Toy Story 3
- True Grit
- Unfinished Film, An
- When We Leave
- Winter's Bone
Movie Reviews 2009
- (500) Days of Summer
- 12
- 9
- Adventureland
- Ajami
- And a Warm Heart
- Art of Being Straight, The
- Avatar
- Baader Meinhof Complex, The
- Baaria
- Baby Love
- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans
- Beaches of Agnes, The
- Blue Tooth Virgin
- Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, The
- Boys, The
- Bright Star
- Broken Embraces
- Brothers Bloom, The
- Capitalism: A Love Story
- City of Life and Death
- Coco Before Chanel
- Cold Souls
- Collapse
- Crazy Heart
- Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The
- Damned United, The
- Dark and Stormy Night, A
- Departures
- District 9
- Drag Me To Hell
- Duplicity
- Easy Virtue
- Education, An
- Endgame
- Evangelion 1.0
- Everybody's Fine
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
- Final Arrangements
- Fish Tank
- Flame and Citron
- Frost/Nixon
- Girl From Monaco, The
- Great Buck Howard, The
- Hangover, The
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Headless Woman, The
- House of the Devil
- Humpday
- Hurt Locker, The
- I Killed My Mother
- I Love You, Man
- Il Divo
- Imaginarium of Dr. Paranssus,The
- In the Loop
- Informant!, The
- Inglorious Basterds
- International, The
- Invictus
- It's Complicated
- Julia
- Julie & Julia
- Last Station, The
- Little Ashes
- Lorna's Silence
- Love in Transit
- Lovely Bones, The
- Maid, The
- Me and Orson Welles
- Merry Gentleman, The
- Messenger, The
- Milk
- Misfortunates, The
- Missing Person, The
- Mission, La
- Moon
- Mr. Right
- Music on Hold
- Must Read After My Death
- My One and Only
- Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The
- New Twenty, The
- Newcastle
- Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian
- Nine
- Not Quite Hollywood
- O'Horton
- Of Time and the City
- OSS 117 Rio
- OSS 117: Lost in Rio
- Outrage
- Paris
- Paris 36
- Perestroika
- Phoebe in Wonderland
- Pirate Radio
- Police Adjective
- Precious
- Prophet, A
- Public Enemies
- Reader, The
- Red Cliff
- Revanche
- Road, The
- Rudo y Cursi
- Secret of the Grain, The
- Secrets of State
- Seraphime
- Serbis
- Serious Man, A
- Sherlock Holmes
- Shuttle
- Single Man, A
- Sita Sings the Blues
- Sleep Dealer
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Something's Gotta Live
- Star Trek
- Still Walking
- Summer Hours
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Surveillance
- Taxidermia
- Tear This Heart Out
- Tetro
- Thirst
- Three Monkeys
- Tokyo Sonata
- Tokyo!
- Uncertainty
- Up
- Up in the Air
- Vicious Kind, The
- Vincere
- Watchmen
- Whatever Works
- Where the Wild Things Are
- White Ribbon, The
- Woman in Berlin, A
- Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
- Zombieland
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- OSCAR RACE: Best Supporting Actor
- THE SESSIONS
- FLIGHT
- BEYOND THE HILLS, CAESER MUST DIE and CLANDESTINE ...
- THE ANGEL'S SHARE
- THE OSCAR RACE: Best Actress, Part Duex
- THE OSCAR RACE: Best Actress
- LINCOLN
- HITCHCOCK
- SKYFALL
- CLOUD ATLAS
- LAURENCE ANYWAYS
- THE HUNT
- KON-TIKI
- QUARTET
- PART II: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, OUR CHILDREN and ...
- PART ONE: BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO, OUR CHILDREN and...
- OBERVATIONS ON FILMMAKING
- THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE and WEST OF MEMPHIS
- SOMETHING IN THE AIR and ELECTRICK CHILDREN
- EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY
- LUNCH and MADRID 1987
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