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-------------------------------------- 50 Free Online Movie Courses! Woo hoo! (Thanks to an e-mail from Kelly Sonora.) Concepts & Philosophy These courses will help you lay the foundation for creating and appreciating fine movies. Studying the Arts and Humanities : Follow ...
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Above is a picture of Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, and John Michael Hayes on the set of To Catch a Thief . What a lucky bastard. For the record and for those newbies who may not know, John Michael Hayes passed away recently . He is the one screenwriter who has worked more often with ...
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Hey guys, In light of the recent death of John Michael Hayes , I thought I'd share again this article about the development of Rear Window . There is so much more that could be said that this piece feels too short to give the film any justice, such as the way that all the couples in the ...
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Rear Window
Hey guys, My next article for Script , which is due mid-December for the March/April issue, is all about unsympathetic protagonists. And I’d like to ask my brilliant readers out there to share with me their favorite unsympathetic protags. I’m already planning to write about Scrooge ( A ...
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The Lives of Others
The Godfather
There Will Be Blood
Hello, my friends, I have read so much about this lecture but never the lecture itself. Well, I’m very proud to share with you the transcript of the lecture Hitch gave in March, 1939, at Radio City Music Hall, which was organized by The Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University. (Hat-tip ...
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Craig Mazin rips apart the new Writers Store Catalog . For example, the script binding kit (pictured above), for a low-low $39.95! Script Binding Kit - $39.95 Not a bad little package for someone looking to mail out a bunch of scripts. You get three hole punch paper, some nice linen ...
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Hey guys, With every new batch of DVDs I get from Netflix, I always have one from Akira Kurasawa . I’ve seen all of his big classics already (and any good screenwriter should be able to easily list those titles). One of these days, I’m going to post an article announcing that I’ve seen ...
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-------------------------------------- New Screenplays: Warner Brothers has up-and-running their For Your Consideration page , as does Disney . Between them, two new scripts are available: Wall*E (Interesting to note that the action lines are all stacked. It’s called action ...
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Let us open with a word of prayer. “Oh, great film goddess, Pelicula, who weaves a magic for everyone in showbiz from hopeful actors and writers to animal trainers and gate guards, who allows the most magnificent films to be born out of the most nightmarish productions, who turns ordinary ...
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A new Bond film always generates some hilarious articles, and I thought I’d share a few today that may be of interest: A History of the Bond Villain For the producers… the challenge has been to cast these villains astutely. They had to have charisma and seem plausibly evil. If they were ...
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James Bond
Okay, I was tagged by the Anonymous Production Assistant to list Top 10 Halloween film selections. I’m afraid my list would be terribly clichéd, filled with such obvious greats as Aliens, Alien, Terminator II, Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist, Psycho, Vertigo, Jaws, Poltergeist, The ...
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I hate to follow-up so quickly with my previous post, but I finally saw Rachel Getting Married and wanted to get all of my random thoughts down while this film’s still fresh on my mind. Rachel is such a contrast to Changeling . Where Straczynski seemed to be more interested in historical ...
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Hey guys, Part II of Sex and Screenwriting has been posted, which includes Eyes Wide Shut, Cabaret, Boys Don’t Cry, and a few others. At the end, I think a few readers and I AM so very thankful for everyone’s help: Without Them We Wouldn't be Getting Any I’d like to thank Jennifer van ...
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Hey guys, This is my time of year when I’m usually hopping from theater to theater to catch all of the latest Oscar contenders. I love it! I live for GREAT FILMS! Bring it on! Give me your best shot! Hehehe … Yeah, well, there are some very slim pickings this year, sad to say. Regardless, ...
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[I’ve had three cigars and I don’t know how many brandys…] Above is the photo of a truly brilliant man who knows who I am, yet he knows nothing of “Mystery Man” or my blog or Script Magazine , although he has Script on display in his very popular cigar store. Hehehe … And he knows ...
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From Steven DeRosa’s Writing with Hitchcock : A quote from screenwriter John Michael Hayes: “…I remember one idea involving an automobile production line that never made it into the completed picture [North by Northwest]. The hero would arrive to question a production foreman. As the ...
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Tom Stempel has a fabulous series on Understanding Screenwriting . James Berardinelli thinks Nolan should avoid a third Batman movie and laments the pitiful state of this year’s Oscar-bait . Two important questions about the financial crisis: 1) What Would George Bailey Do? 2) ...
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Okay, here’s the world’s very first photo of ME! This image was taken for the contributor’s page in conjunction with my very first article in SCRIPT MAGAZINE! Yeah, baby! I’m quite proud to have tackled the very taboo topic of Sex & Screenwriting . Like me, that article is HOT! Hehehe ...
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-------------------------------------- New Screenplays : Universal Studios already has up-and-running their For Your Consideration page , as does Paramount Vintage . Between the two, there are four new scripts available: Changeling Frost/Nixon The Duchess Defiance (The ...
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