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A Movie Supplement You Must Have
2007-11-21 00:00:00 Are you aware that New Yorker has just sent out to its subscribers a special supplement on movies — appropriately titled “Movie s Rock”? In the front cover is Bill Elvis. Packed with great articles and photos about Bill Murray, Elmer Berstein, Jimmy Van Heusen and The Chairman of the Board, Spielberg, Johnny Depp, Sofia Coppola, Travolta and ... More About: Supplement
101 Ways to Write and Finish a Screenplay
2007-11-17 00:00:00 Copyright 2007 Ugur Akinci 1. Visualize what the opening shot of your film should be. 2. Decide what your Inciting Incident will be. 3. Decide on your Plot Point 1. 4. Find a Mid Point in which the flow of events reverse themselves. 5. Decide on your Plot Point 2. 6. ... More About: Write , Finish , Screenplay , Nish
My Favorite 101 Films
2007-11-17 00:00:00 1. 8 ˝ 2. 1900 3. 2001: A Space Odyssey 4. A Streetcar Named Desire 5. All the President?s Men 6. Alphaville 7. Amarcord 8. American Beauty 9. An Affair to Remember 10. Blood Simple 11. Blue 12. Cape Fear (both versions) 13. Coming Home 14. Dances With the Wolves 15. Das Boat 16. Deliverance 17. Dial ?M? for Murder 18. Die Hard 19. Dirty Harry 20. Don?t Come Knocking 21. Driving Miss Daisy 22. E.T. 23. ... More About: Films , Favorite , Favor
?Internal Dynamics? in a Story versus Screenplay
2007-11-16 00:00:00 Most screenplays that I read or coach get stuck in Act 2 due to the dreaded ?internal dynamics.? And by that I mean a crucial plot development that relies totally on a ?revelation? or a ?change of heart? or a ?realization? that happens INSIDE our protagonist, and thus changes the flow of the story. You can?t have ... More About: Story , Dynamics , Internal , Versus , Screenplay
Link to Movie Doctor
2007-11-16 00:00:00 Would you like to link to this blog? Just copy the below code and paste it into your Blogroll or links list and you’ll be linked automatically. Thanks! MD <a href=http://www.moviedoctor.info/> 0;img src=”http://moviedoctor.info/wp-con tent/uploads/2007/11/movie-doctor-m.gif&# 8221;></a> More About: Movie , Link , Doctor
Movie Review - Indiscreet (1958)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 A romantic comedy that takes place (like a few other Cary Grant pictures) in the world of British upper class, among well-bred and prosperous ladies and gentlemen whose chief anxiety is a good life lived alone, with no one worthy to share. That’s when we forget that we are removed from this distant ?parallel universe? ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Movie Review - Bishop?s Wife (1947)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 BISHOP’S WIFE turned out to be the opposite of everything that I thought the title implied. Honestly, I thought this would be a movie in which Cary Grant character would be falling in love with a ?bishop’s wife? and creating untold complications along the way. Not quite. In this very romantic ?Christmas film? directed by Henry Koster, ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Wife , Review , Bishop
Movie Review - An Affair to Remember (1957)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 A remake of Leo Carey’s 1939 hit ?Love Affair ? starring Irene Dunne , Charles Boyer and Maria Ouspenskaya. This same script would be shot (with some cosmetic plots changes) once more time as ?Love Affair? in 1994 starring Warren Betty, Annette Benning, and Katherine Hepburn. Structurally this is a very interesting and lop-sided classic that starts ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Movie Review - Brian De Palma?s ?Redacted? (2007)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 David Denby of New Yorker wrote an interesting piece on De Palma’s “Redacted” which is a fictionalized form of a true incident that took place in today’s occupied Iraq. What’s interesting is the way De Palma deconstructs the reported reality and instead of putting it together again smoothly, he leaves all the raw edges sticking out. ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Brian , Brian De Palma
?DVD Review?? Or ?Movie Review??
2007-11-16 00:00:00 Some writers think the proper term for the review of movies that?s available on DVDs is ?DVD Review .? I disagree. And here is why: I literally am not reviewing a DVD. If I did, it would read something like this: ?The So-and-So DVD reviewed was a typical product, perfectly round and light, with a well-designed label on one ... More About: Movie , Movie Review
Movie Review - His Girl Friday (1940)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 A much-praised romantic comedy classic directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer based on the stage play “The Front Page” by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Three immediate observations about this famous flick: 1) It certainly still is a funny film. I ended up laughing out loud in quite a few scenes even though His ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Girl , Friday
Movie Review - Operation Petticoat (1959)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 A rather average Blake Edwards comedy released the same year as that other Cary Grant movie that would destined to become a classic of all times ? NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959). OPERATION PETTICOAT is written by Stanley Shapiro and Maurice Richlin. The film is one long flashback of Admiral Sherman (Cary Grant) who used to be ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Operation
Plot Points - To Catch a Thief (1955)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 PROTAGONIST JOHN ROBIE’S DILEMMA: Everybody thinks he is behind the new wave of jewelry robberies around French Riviera but he cannot convince people otherwise because he had been a notorious burglar himself in the past. PROTAGONIST’S DESIRE: To prove his innocence and catch the real ?cat burglar.? HIS CHIEF OBSTACLE: He had been a famous jewelry burglar ... More About: Catch , Points , Thief , Plot
Movie Review - To Catch a Thief (1955)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 Directed by Alfred HitchcockScreenplay by John Michael Hayes adapted from DavidDodge’s novel. Cary Grant — John Robie Grace Kelly — Frances Stevens Jessie Royce Landis — Jessie Stevens John Williams — H. H. Hughson Charles Vanel — Bertani Brigitte Auber — Danielle Foussard Jean Martinelli — Foussard Georgette Anys ? Germaine Easily one of the most gorgeous and good-looking films ever shot. It’s not ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Catch , Thief
Screenwriting - Adapting ?Cholera? to the Screen
2007-11-16 00:00:00 Adapting a novel to the screen is one of the most challenging assignments there is. In almost every case, the screenwriter has to pick the story apart and put it back together again so that it would be interesting and appealing as a story told in moving pictures. Everything internal has to be externalized so ... More About: Screen , Screenwriting
Movie Review - Penny Serenade (1941)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 An unremarkable (by today’s standards) childrearing melodrama in which Cary Grant delivers a performance so good that he was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. George Stevens directed the script by Morrie Ryskind. The whole movie unfolds as a series of linear flashbacks, each triggered by the LP records a disconsolate Julie (Irene Dunne) is playing ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Serenade , Penny
Movie Review - Destination Tokyo (1943)
2007-11-16 00:00:00 An obvious WW2 propaganda movie made back in 1943 with full blessings of the Navy Department. This Cary Grant flick falls flat on its face by today?s standards for its lack of realism and heavy-handed exposition. Written by (also the director) Delmer Daves and Albert Maltz from a story by Steve Fisher. The crew of the ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Tokyo , Review , Destination
Casino Royale (2006) - Movie Review
2007-11-14 00:00:00 Evil genius Le Chiffre is trying to fund his international terror network by making a windfall profit through short trading the stocks of an important airliner. For him to profit, the airliner must experience a disaster. But when Bond prevents that from taking place, Le Chiffre kicks his Plan B into action ? skimming off $150 ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Casino Royale , Review , Casino
Scenes of the Crime (2001) - Movie Review
2007-11-14 00:00:00 Without a doubt, one of the most truly interesting crime films I?ve watched within the last year. And imagine, this probably did not even make the movie theaters at all and went straight to video. Such a gem, worthy of your monthly online video subscription fee (and I recommend Block Buster, NOT the Netflix). Directed by ... More About: Movie , Crime , Movie Review , Review , Scenes
Plot Idea - Reindeer Looking for a Job
2007-11-14 00:00:00 A modern suburb in America, booming with construction activity. Nearby woods cut down to make way for new homes and shopping malls. What should the deer population living nearby do to survive the onslaught? A developer who hunts in his free time tries to have open season declared on all “tick carrying pests.” After a few of the ... More About: Idea , Plot
Plot Idea - Dying for a Cause
2007-11-14 00:00:00 A guy gets hits by a car, but not that bad, while crossing the street. Just as he is about to get up, a wise-guy runs over and tells him to pretend he is mortally wounded so that he can sue the driver and get some insurance money. The victim thinks this is a great idea and ... More About: Idea , Dying , Plot
Plot Idea - Triple Accidental Homicide
2007-11-14 00:00:00 A businessman traveling overseas returns home unannounced just when his wife is in bed with her lover.Hearing her husband climb up the stairs, she pretends her lover is actually a rapist and they stage a mock fight to the finish. Just when the husband enters their bedroom, he sees the “rapist” jump from the window… to ... More About: Idea , Homicide , Triple , Plot
Thriller Screenplays - 3 Question Checklist
2007-11-14 00:00:00 So you’re writing a thriller screenplay… Excellent! Here is a 3-question check list grown out my 15 years of attempts to produce a great thriller screenplay that keeps the reader at the edge of her seat. 1) Is your protagonist facing any kind of danger? What is the challenge and what is the CONFLICT? What are the ... More About: Question , Thriller , Screenplay
?Producers? in Writers? Strike? WHAT producers?
2007-11-14 00:00:00 There is a certain misconception going around these days due to the writers strike in Hollywood: A lot of people think the battle is between the WGA-member writers and the “producers”! Well, it’s NOT. The issue pits writers against FINANCIERS and STUDIO OWNERS, not the guys and gals who really “produce” a movie, that is, who really put ... More About: Writers , Strike , Producers , Producer
Many Try To Write Screenplays
2007-11-14 00:00:00 by Zinn Jeremiah At one time novel writing was the most popular form of creative writing there was. In today’s world, however, novel writing takes a back seat to screenwriting as a popular creative writing form. Playwriting has a degree of popularity as well, certainly, but not to the level that screenwriting does. Screenwriting has become ... More About: Write , Screenplay
The Savages - Movie Review
2007-11-14 00:00:00 London Film Festival By Carrie BaileyEpoch Times UK Staff Oct 21, 2007 Jon is an emotionally stunted professor. His sister Wendy is an emotional wreck and both are charged with looking after their ailing disinterested father who develops dementia. Sound appealing? The problem with this film is not so much the bleakness of the topic, it’s ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Sava , The Savages
Hold Me Tight Let Me Go - Movie Review
2007-11-14 00:00:00 London Film Festival By Carrie BaileyEpoch Times UK Staff Oct 21, 2007 Mulberry Bush is a boarding school in Oxford for children suffering from severe emotional trauma, whose truancy and aggression has got them expelled from previous regular schools (sometimes on numerous occasions). No longer able to attend with other “normal” children, this is their ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review , Hold , Hold Me
30 Days of Night - Movie Review
2007-11-14 00:00:00 Frustrating. That is the perfect word to use when describing the experience of watching 30 Days of Night . There is nothing quite like watching a film that you really want to like and discovering that it does not quite live up to your hopes and expectations. 30 Days of Night was a movie I as ... More About: Movie , Movie Review , Review
Interview - Movie Review
More articles from this author:2007-11-14 00:00:00 Movie Review : ‘Interview ’ By Carrie BaileyEpoch Times UK Staff Oct 22, 2007 Pierre Peters is a resentful journalist, Katya is a successful actress. The event: an interview that spans one night, beginning at a pretentious restaurant before moving to the actress’ monolithic loft down the road. Directed by Steve Buscemi, who also plays Peters, Interview ... More About: Movie , Movie Review 1, 2 |
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