July 2012
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Paul Merton Looks at Alfred Hitchcock (BBC, 2009)
Paul Merton explores how Hitchcock’s later, much loved American films are full of visual sequences which owe a huge debt to his early days as a silent film director. For Hitchcock, heavily influenced by the German Expressionist cinema, the pictures would always be more important than the dialogue.
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Happy Birthday Mr. Peter Bogdanovich
Recordings of almost 4 hours of a series of interviews conducted by director/author Bogdanovich with Orson Welles between the years 1969 and 1972.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich had conducted extensive interviews with Welles, but a number of circumstances—including the director’s decision to compose an autobiography that he never got...
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Empire of the Sun (undated draft by Tom Stoppard.... →
NOTE: For educational purposes only.
Cadillac Of The Skies by Empire of the Sun on Grooveshark
This is why I love Steven Spielberg.
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Watchlettertojane:
La jetée
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Awesome movie theatres everyone should visit →
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Michael Herr on Kubrick →
Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, easily one of my all-time favorite books, worked with Kubrick on Full Metal Jacket. Soon after he passed away, Herr wrote Kubrick, a short but wonderful memoir of the man himself; this is the opening paragraph:
Stanley Kubrick was a friend of mine, insofar as people like Stanley have friends, and as if there are any people like Stanley now. Famously...
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Lucifer Rising is a short film by director Kenneth Anger. The film was completed in 1972 but was only widely distributed in 1980. a young musician named Bobby Beausoleil to act and compose the soundtrack. The film was abandoned in 1967 because Anger claimed the film footage had been stolen by Beausoleil. (Beausoleil and others said that Anger had simply spent all the money for the film)....
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The Holy Mountain — Alejandro Jodorowsky (Full...
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Scent of a Woman (Screenplay) →
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How ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ Would Be Advertised in...
As brilliant as Stanley Kubrick‘s sci-fi contemplation on everything is, it would be a nightmare to advertise today. Far from high concept, it doesn’t fit neatly into the quadrants that movie marketing teams salivate over winning. So how would they do it? We’ve asked master mashup artist ChugsTheMonkey to take a shot at it. The result is a bone-crunching, non-stop science fiction explosion of...
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The 'Strangelove' of Weegee →
In early 1963 Arthur Fellig, better known to time, tide and memory as Weegee, journeyed to Shepperton Studios in Merrie England to document, however briefly, the production of Stanley Kubrick’s mirth-encrusted exploration of human dread, ‘Dr. Strangelove.’ In the process, the photographer not only captured more than one glimpse of moments that would not make it into the...
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying... →
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Happy birthday Mr. Kubrick →
Happy birthday Mr. Kubrick. For over ten years we’ve been collecting links and tossing them into various categories. As you probably have noticed, we’re a bit of obsessed with a certain film director. Check our big, messy “Stuff About Stanley Kubrick” archive. The portrait above, “Stanley Winter,” is by Antony Hare who also did this one, which keeps an eye...
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photos by Richard G. Wright →
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Donnie Brasco (Screenplay) →
Backstage on the making of Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell - 1997)
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Unproduced Screenplays Of Terrence Malick: “The... →
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While most people assume that anything Terrence Malick worked on during his infamous 20-year hiatus was in the early ‘80s or late ‘70s and the rest of the time he studied the cloud-filtered light out of his Paris apartment, “The English Speaker” is an unproduced screenplay that comes from the early ‘90s (a 2nd draft dated 1992 was for sale on Ebay in...
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“My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were...”
– Paul Thomas Anderson (via austinkleon)
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Matthew Modine's "Full Metal Jacket Diary"
This is an 18-page pdf document. It will take a few moments to load: Excerpts from Matthew Modine’s “Full Metal Jacket Diary”.
Matthew Modine, star of Full Metal Jacket, has published a journal about the making of the film, Full Metal Diary. There are several previously-unseen Kubrick photos, and transcripts of conversations between Modine and Kubrick. It’s limited to...
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American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)
He was the best comedian of his generation, and seventeen years after his untimely death, Bill Hicks is still greatly missed. It’s hard to believe he would have only been fifty this year, which is not old when compared to some of the aged reptiles who hold power in politics, the media and banking. But we were lucky to have had his talents for the short time we did.
With exclusive interviews...
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Rosemary's Baby (Screenplay) →
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Good Will Hunting (Screenplay) →
What a genius script looks like
Writing Great Dialogue
How Terrence Malick Gave ‘Good Will Hunting’ Its Ending And More
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The American Dreamer (1971)
The American Dreamer, a documentary portrait of Dennis Hopper is one of the great lost films of the early seventies. Made in 1971, as Hopper was basking in the glory of his Cannes winning film Easy Rider, and before the release of his second film The Last Movie (which would turn out to be a colossal bomb), The American Dreamer was filmed mostly around Hopper’s ranch in New Mexico and...
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Watch The Heart of a Film on PBS. See more from On Story.
On the next On Story, the inspiration behind such classic films as Edward Scissorhands, Toy Story, and UP is discussed by Academy Award winning Pixar director John Lasseter and screenwriter Caroline Thompson followed by the short Playing Ghost by Andrew Start.
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The Breakfast Club →
10 Screenwriting Tips You Can Learn from The Breakfast Club
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“I went to film school. I did screenwriting school. The best thing for me was reading scripts.” —Stuart Beattie
The screenwriting guide to finding PDF scripts online
Websites Let’s try and keep a revolving list of great sites.
WSF Screenplay database
screenplayexplorer
casaizzo
lexwilliford
Read. Watch. Write.
mypdfscripts
Awesomefilm
SimplyScripts
Movie Page
Horror Lair
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Hotel Room was a three episode 1993 HBO television series produced by David Lynch (who directed two of them). Each drama takes place in the same New York City hotel room (number 603 of the Railroad Hotel) at different times (1969, 1992, and 1936, respectively). This is all three episodes back to back.
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The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)
A collection of visionary director David Lynch’s short films from the first 29 years of his career is accompanied by a special introduction to each film by the director himself.
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One of the few shorts you’re missing in your David Lynch collection.
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Lynch aka. Lynch (One) (2007)
Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of David Lynch’s creative process as he completes his latest film, Inland Empire. We follow Lynch as he discovers beauty in ideas, leading us on a journey through the abstract which ultimately unveils his cinematic vision. The director of the documentary immersed himself in David Lynch’s world; living and...
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Platoon (Screenplay) →
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Very rare VHS copy: Previews for every movie ever...
I own a commercially-released and now very rare VHS copy of this trailer compilation. It wasn’t available for very long. Licensing issues? Probably. The quality is of the bootleg variety. Presley fans may consider downloading it. Though the King may come looking for you. Here’s a list of films included in the video. That poster up there for King Creole was created for the French release of...
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The Matrix Screenplay →
Beautiful. Simply astonishing. A visual feast of stylish imagery. This book is a masterpiece of illustrative storytelling. The Art of the Matrix is a huge, hardbound, coffee table book that tells the story of The Matrix, and more importantly, shows the difficult path the creators followed in getting the studio to greenlight the movie. The script for The Matrix (included in full)...
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The Terminator Screenplay →
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Eastern Promises Screenplay →
Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air. Host Terry Gross had a great time asking them about the making of their new film Eastern Promises. Topics included Viggo’s Russian accent, the tattoos, how to best photograph blood, and of course the steam bath scene in which a naked Mortensen fights several assailants. Listen to the show online or subscribe to the...
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Werner Herzog's Documentary Series 'On Death Row'
The prologue of each of the four episodes of “Death Row” is the same: a restless camera prowls through the dismal ante-room, holding cell and injection chamber of an unnamed execution facility, while director Werner Herzog tells us in his familiar teutonic monotone that, as a German and a guest of the United States, he “respectfully disagree[s]” with the death penalty, legal in 34 states,...
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Lost in La Mancha (2002) →
Lost in La Mancha is a mesmerizing documentary about the unmaking of a movie—Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Cervantes’s Don Quixote, starring Johnny Depp, which began filming in Spain in September 2000 and shut down several weeks later after a string of calamities. The moviemakers, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, had previously shot a documentary on the making of Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys and the...
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A night in Nashville with the city’s most iconoclastic native son Harmony Korine and the French filmmaker Gaspar Noe. Directed by Bruce LaBruce.
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Deliverance Screenplay →
Four Men. Forty Years. An interview with Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox about Deliverance, on the film’s 40th anniversary. Additional interviews/articles: Collider; THR; Bonus Ronny Cox interview; 20 Facts About Deliverance That’ll Make You…Well, You Know. What fascinating insight into such a famous (infamous?) scene: The Rape Scene in Deliverance; “I...
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