Independent film, despite its gritty, frustrating, compromise-laden nature has always appealed to a certain stripe of writer. It’s the idea of pushing the boundaries of cinema. Writing free of studio ideals. Saying something important or new or just plain cool. The irony, of course, is that in every form of screenwriting, there’s always a box […]
Tag Archives: French New Wave
The French New Wave (FNW) style of filmmaking that reached its height during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s was a revolution in cinema that sought to redefine conventions and standards of classical Hollywood cinema. In James Monaco’s article “The New Wave”, he states: The New Wave filmmakers were all – in different but parallel […]
“Love means never having to say you’re sorry,” at least this is what Ali MacGraw’s character say in Love Story. But what if love means something else to another person? And what if it means two different things to one couple? And what does “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” mean anyway? To […]
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Jean-Luc Godard’s Bout de souffle, or Anhelus, begins with a shot of a young Parisian looking at a portrait of a beautiful woman wearing an elegant hat and smoking. a cigarette like Humphrey Bogart. From there we see how the dissemination of the film’s image and style makes people “play” their roles in life. Part […]
In the restoration of Fritz Lang’s remarkable film M (1931), Peter Lorre plays Hans Beckert, a serial killer of children on the loose in Post WWI Germany. The film is not a mystery because we learn Beckert’s identity early on. But it’s a more difficult social commentary that’s just as relevant today. The killings became […]
I absolutely love Jack Nicholson. I always have. I love watching him perform, how he carries himself, his facial expressions the way he acts and the fact that he is almost always getting away with something in his films. I also like Diane Keaton a lot. She is a funny, down-to-earth, realistic actress with a […]