David Mamet's Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit | Movieline GREETINGS. AS WE LEARN HOW TO WRITE THIS SHOW, A RECURRING PROBLEM BECOMES CLEAR. THE PROBLEM IS THIS: TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DRAMA AND NON-DRAMA. LET ME BREAK-IT-DOWN-NOW. WE, THE WRITERS, MUST ASK OURSELVES OF EVERY SCEN[...]
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March 12th, 2010 - 5:33 pm § in News
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Dreaming of Nonsense: The Evolutionary Enigma of Dream Content: Scientific American An interesting look at dreams, including the most common ones all human beings share. Barrett’s preferred evolutionary explanation for dreaming, and the one she’s best known for, is that dreamscapes provided our [...]
March 9th, 2010 - 12:45 pm § in Off Topic
Trailer for Every Oscar Winning Movie Ever
Surprisingly high production value for a trailer for the hollywood equivalent of the hero’s journey.[...]
February 16th, 2010 - 4:07 pm § in News
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100 Best Films – Village Voice Interesting List, Will start going through the ones I haven't seen. ‘Sex’ Sells Short Films Online > Matt Dentler's Blog It’s been a very busy few days in South America, where I am currently for a series of panels in Uruguay as part of the annu[...]
January 25th, 2010 - 7:13 pm § in News
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Sundance 2010 Shorts Hit YouTube | Short of the Week Sundance kicked off tonight in Park City, Utah. I hadn’t heard any advance buzz about the 10/10 online series, a recent Sundance tradition that we covered last year, and so I sadly concluded that the festival had moved away from online distro fo[...]
January 24th, 2010 - 10:35 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, News
The Most Beautiful Man in the World
This is one of my favorite short films, which I thought I’d share. It’s breathtaking. Find it in high quality if possible. The Most Beautiful Man in the World “This week’s short film is short and on the surface slight to a point almost beyond belief. In that regard it is a film t[...]
January 24th, 2010 - 3:02 am § in Off Topic
Prospero Without His Magic
This poem by Jack Gilbert says a lot about the difference between art and craft. He keeps the valley like this with his heart. By paying attention, being capable, remembering. Otherwise, there would be flies as big as dogs in the vineyard, cows made entirely of maggots, cruelty with machinery and ca[...]
January 19th, 2010 - 7:12 pm § in News
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Movie Review – Up in the Air – Neither Here Nor There – NYTimes.com One of the pleasures of “Up in the Air” is that its actresses — including Anna Kendrick, who plays Bingham’s colleague Natalie — share the frame with Mr. Clooney as equals, not props.[...]
January 15th, 2010 - 1:45 pm § in Off Topic, Screenwriting
Salem and Jamestown
While watching There Will Be Blood this week I was reminded of the introduction to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, which I read in December. Miller discusses two conflicting impulses in early colonial America, represented by the cities of Jamestown and Salem. He describes this difference in one [...]
January 14th, 2010 - 7:08 pm § in News
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Eugene Hernandez: The Future of Festivals? – indieWIRE “Conversations are getting louder about how festivals can and should aggressively help filmmakers use new technologies to reach a broader audience,” new SXSW festival producer Janet Pierson said at the time. Nearly a year later, those [...]