a steady diet of obsessive cinema and screenwriting in the dark
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When I'm not hiding in my cave as I am known to do I can be found wandering the streets of Brooklyn mumbling to myself. Read more about William Speruzzi.
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William Anyone have The Machinist screenplay by Scott Kosar in PDF/DOC format?
John Ott, writer, filmmaker and futurist, gives us some very interesting thoughts on why failure is part of the big picture and why indie filmmakers have it all wrong (I agree with him.)
Lately I’ve had the attention span of a gnat. Could be that I haven’t had a full night of unbroken sleep in, I don’t know, 200 days now. But I wanted to read something that would stir the pot so to speak so I picked up a couple of books in the Akashic noir series. Don’t know about it? What card carrying crime freak doesn’t know about the Akashic Books noir series? It’s a collection of noir short stories that take place in what seems like just about every city in the world. Starting out humbly with Brooklyn Noir the series has 26 titles with an additional 14 more cities on the way. The writing is excellent and if this is your bag you might want to pick up your chosen city or cities.
I think this video interview of Aronofsky and the cast of The Wrestler is so interesting not so much for the discussion about the film which I’m very anxious to see but for Mickey Rourke’s honesty about his life. I’ve been a big fan of his for many years and I truly miss him doing his thing on screen. He was poised to be a huge….well, you know.
Maybe this will prompt someone to give Barfly the “treatment” it deserves considering that it is no where to be found on DVD for less than $80.
This is a wrestling picture; the audience wants to see action, drama, wrestling, and plenty of it. They don’t wanna see a guy wrestling with his soul -- well, all right, a little bit, for the critics -- but you make it the carrot that wags the dog. Too much of it and they head for exits and I don’t blame ‘em. There’s plenty of poetry right inside that ring, Fink. Look at “Hell Ten Feet Square.”
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Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.
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Look at “Blood, Sweat, and Canvas.” These are big movies, Fink. About big men, in tights -- both physically and mentally. But especially physically.”
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of quotes about building characters from the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and David Mamet. 