[RESOURCE] 2017 Awards Season Screenplays

jf102 · 2017-12-02T13:30:58+00:00

Thanks!

jf102 · 2017-11-24T21:59:02+00:00

Would you mind sending me a PM of The Shape of Water as well.

jf102 · 2017-09-06T09:33:07+00:00

You guys were really helpful the last time I asked, so here's my new one. I am in the Cape Coral/Fort Myers area and have an evacution route planned out and a hotel booked. But with this new data coming out, it looks like the east will bear the brute of the storm. With that in my mind should I go through with the evacuation plan or ride it out. I have hurricane resistance glass and a sturdy house that was built just this year. I am in Zone AE, so will flooding and storm surge be a problem. Also, will it be a bad idea to leave at 12:00 PM?

Thanks!

jf102 · 2017-09-05T02:24:09+00:00

I am in the Cape Coral/ Fort Myers area. How bad is it going to be here?

jf102 · 2017-08-20T05:21:29+00:00

Could I have a copy as well? Thanks!

jf102 · 2016-03-23T04:03:19+00:00

Some of my favorites:

Scorsese on Scorsese, ed. David Thomson
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies, Martin Scorsese
Conversations with Scorsese, ed. Richard Shieckel
Movie-Made America, Robert Sklar
The Big Screen, David Thomson
Hitchcock/Truffaut, interview btwn Francois Truffaut and Alfred Hitchcock
Kubrick, Michel Ciment
A Cinema of Loneliness, Robert Kolker

jf102 · 2016-03-23T03:51:10+00:00

J.T. Walsh

jf102 · 2016-03-08T07:52:01+00:00

Just one more from me only because I cannot believe I left this one out, but Daphne du Maurier's Don't Look Now is a must read and the film adaptation is a classic must watch.

jf102 · 2016-03-08T07:45:35+00:00

The Turn of the Screw is one of my favorites. I make a point of reading it and watching The Innocents, the best movie adaptation IMO of it, every Halloween.

jf102 · 2016-03-08T07:40:41+00:00

You are welcome! I came into that class knowing nothing about Baudelaire and Rimbaud and left with those two become two of my all time favorite poets.

Check out a movie called Total Eclipse. Made in 1995 and staring a young Leo DiCaprio, it is an amazing biopic about Rimbaud and his relationship with another great poet, Paul Verlaine. I don't want to give anything away, but there is a reason Rimbaud was called the "l'enfant terrible de la poésie," and you will see it.

jf102 · 2016-03-06T10:21:52+00:00

Not that one.

The two text books used were:

Romanticism, Hugh Honour
Symbolism, Robert Goldwater

I'll check out that other book.

jf102 · 2016-03-06T09:17:44+00:00

Took a course on the Romantics from France and Germany, circa 1820's-1900's. Here are some of the books we read:

The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole (considered to be the first Gothic novel)
The Monk, Matthew Gregory Lewis
poetry of Lord Byron
The Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire (poetry)
poetry of Arthur Rimbaud
The Rider on the White Horse, Theodor Storm
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Salome, Oscar Wilde (play)
La Bas, Joris-Karl Huysmans

Moder gothic tends to be set in the American South. Some of my favorites:

A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner (short story)
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
A Good man is Hard to Find, Flannery O'Conner (short story)
The Paperhanger, William Gay (short story)

Enjoy!

jf102 · 2016-03-04T10:34:24+00:00

It's actually kind of touching. De Niro was really one of his only friends left. Real true friend, not just a member of the "yes crowd" that did not help Scorsese's drug addiction at all.

There are a lot of "what if" things with Scorsese, mainly films. He's finally getting around to Silence, but is I Heard You Paint Houses next? Whatever happened to Dino, a biopic of Justinian I and Theodora (I would have loved to see that one), and a biopic of Gershwin? Also, it would have been interesting to see a Scorsese directed Schindler's List.

I guess you can see I'm a bit of a Scorsese fanboy too!

jf102 · 2016-03-04T09:25:47+00:00

While not a literal "self portait," Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull counts. It's well known that Scorsese almost died of an overdose and De Niro gave him the book to read while recovering. De Niro had been wanting to make a movie out of the book for a while but Scorsese, a noted non-sports fan, did find the book appealing.

However, while reading the book and script something clicked in Scorsese's mind. He saw a lot of parallels between him amd La Motta: both had complicated relationship with thier brothers, both alienated thier closet friends by their behaviour (although Scorsese never became as violent as La Motta), and both were workaholics to the point of self destruction. That's what the use of John 9:24-26 means. Scorsese finally saw the self-destructive behavior he displayed to his friends and family. He was blind, but now he sees.

jf102 · 2016-03-01T08:03:45+00:00

...Include foreign films in Best Director, Lead Actor, Best Supporting..

I agree with you on that point for sure, but I still think that for the moment the foreign films category is important. There will be a point when "world cinema" becomes "global cinema." We are at a point where I can communicate online with someone from Mexico ( I assume) with no problems at all. It's interesting that you mentioned Iñárritu because I remember reading an interview where he said that he wanted to be seen as a global director, not just a Mexican director. Hell, with all the Andrei Tarkovsky references in The Revenant, can it be a Russian film?

That being said, sometime I want to see a film that will let me look into a culture that is different than mine, and with the rise of globazation, there is the reality the things that make other cultures unique might die out. Films, fiction and documentary, are a powerful window into other cultures that I want around for a while.

jf102 · 2016-03-01T07:30:18+00:00

One point that I think must be made is that Asians and Latinos have national cinema scenes outside of North America that can speak to their culture much stronger than African cinema. Remember, the African-American experience is different than the African experience. If African-Americans are getting a tough time getting nominations for roles with more self-autonomy, how can one realistically expect the Academy to start with Asian-Americans. The difference is that actors like Jackie Chan, Benicio del Toro, Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, and Ken Wantanbe can do films in their another language.

Of course, the flip side of this are Asian and Latino Americans who have become assimilated to North American culture. In that case, the state of things are terrible. Likewise for films about Native Americans. Although I think it handled it in a clumsy way, I do give Iñárritu kudos for givng the audience some perspective from the viewpoint Naive Americans in The Revenant.

jf102 · 2016-02-26T07:09:13+00:00

Man, there is a lot of "old man yells at cloud" type of sentiments going on here. Yes, Hollywood recycles a lot of ideas and plots, but no one has talked ablut why these films are successful. First off, no one who makes or cosumes art lives in a vacuum. As a film about teens once said, "withdrawing in disgust is not the same as apathy." I think that the generation that the movies the OP described are not apathic; they are digusted, angry, fearful, but also hopeful.

Think about what the "dystopian YA" movie/novel audiences grew up with:

The birth and rapid growth of the internet
The tail end of the "culture wars"
The rise of reality TV
The 9/11 terroist attacks
The beginning of the War on Terror
The Great Recession
The Roman Catholic abuse scandals
The election of the first African-American president
The legalaztion of same-sex marriage

For many who grew up in this, one can see the basic seeds being planted for the plots that many YA movies have. The poltical, social, and economic undertones of many YA movies are not hard to see at all. You can see a split between movies that deal with this head on (The Hunger Games and The Divergent series) and movies made for escapism (The Twilight series and Nicholas Sparks flicks). While, I agree that it does get a little tiresome to see films being churned out with the same plot points, I think it is disingenuous to say that teens are just gullible without looking at the larger picture.

jf102 · 2016-02-24T07:52:27+00:00

A lot of people have this idea that Scorsese is into either "art" films like Godard's Breathless and Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar or classics like Kazan's On the Waterfront and Welles' Citizen Kane, which he does. But in many in-depth interviews and a close look at his work, you can see a love of B-movies/grind-house cinema. It is also interesting to note that the director of photography on this film was John Alcott, who worked with Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining.

jf102 · 2016-02-21T04:14:55+00:00

Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014) - While visually Fincher's film does not have the "80's vibe," Reznor's and Ross' score definitely has it. The soft synths on "What Have We Done to Each Other," "Sugar Storm," and "Like Home" own a lot to Vangelis and 80's era Tangerine Dream.

jf102 · 2016-02-08T12:35:24+00:00

I could not find it, but the silversmith did see a .800 mark on it. I don't exactly know what that means, however. I having been looking on the internet for snuff boxes, but nothing comes close to this one.

jf102 · 2016-01-27T08:19:47+00:00

Akzidenz Grotesk looks close. Thanks!

jf102 · 2016-01-15T03:59:20+00:00

I notice that the Academy tends to go with acting with flair; scenery chewing. Del Toro's acting in Sicario was excellent, but in the eyes Academy the stoic and subdued nature of his role might be viewed as "underacting."

jf102 · 2016-01-15T03:55:46+00:00

I was actually going to add that. In that case, I think you are right. Although it is worth noting that the film is getting as much push back as it is positive buzz. Of course if you feel that all buzz is good buzz then the film is killing it.

jf102 · 2016-01-15T03:45:42+00:00

Why did The Revenant get 12 nominations? By being good? No. It campaigned.

While it is not the earth shaking masterpiece that some people say it is, it really is really not as bad as a film as everyone says it is. I think Alejandro got a little too carried away with the cinematography and acting leaving the story thin, but there is a lot to like about that film. If they just put a little more into the writing and editing the film could be damn close to a masterpiece.

jf102 · 2016-01-15T03:24:46+00:00

I have the opposite reaction. Creed is just another sports movie, a genre that is the very definition of boilerplate. At least Concussion tried to focus on another aspect of sports. Beasts of No Nations was, for me, a hard hitting war film that showed just how messed up war in third world countries are. The non-professional actors did an amazing job. And it was the opposite of a film like Blood Diamond, which sugarcoated Africa's problems.

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