Oh man, so I was in the theater, very excited, and I was watching the new Tim Burton movie -- only this was something people actually cared about seeing, not just another masturbation into dim, oblique post-goth translations of other works.

This film, it was a little like he'd remade Die Hard and Dark City all at once, with a strange surreal- ( Read more... )

The elliptical feature outline went from bones to a little bit of meat tonight, as I watched Hong Sang-soo's Woman Is the Future of Man. Or maybe it'd be more accurate to say it went from a couple of tail bones and a skull to a more complete skeleton. Mixaphorically speaking. It also became a self-conscious gangster story, which I did not see ( Read more... )

To keep up on the movies I've been devouring:

I'm now in love with Hiroshi Teshigahara, and I watched both Face of Another and Woman in the Dunes. I might have to go and read another Abe Kobo book now. What else? I finished Hong Song-soo's Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors and between it and Teshi, I've been inspired with yet another brand ( Read more... )

Okay, first, it's 4am and I'm not tired. It's been a long day and I know I should be, but I'm not. I'm never tired, or else I'm exhausted and can't sleep. Sleep is stupid. Stupid sleep.

Tonight I watched Hiroshi Teshigahara's Pitfall, his feature film debut and his first collaboration with Abe Kobo, and man, I was really excited by it ( Read more... )

I'm revising a six-page script called Open. It wasn't in my brain until last night. Now it's a finished draft of a script. It's either good, or it's all the bad parts of Amnesia Hotel all over again. Also it works in the nude scene a certain friend of mine has been pressuring me to write. So, if it ever comes together, there's that. (Does ( Read more... )

TRAVIS  Oh, and by the way, this story? I want to shoot on film.
RUSS:  Obviously.
TRAVIS:  Obviously?
RUSS:  If you shot this on video, it would look like porn.
Tonight Colin, Russ and myself--and belatedly Jon--had our first semi-weekly Writingland meeting. Writingland is totally not its official name; it's just something I wrote down in my ( Read more... )

GIRL.     I never really liked you, you know.
BOY.     That explains a lot.
GIRL.     I’m serious.
BOY.     Then why have you put up with me for so long?
GIRL.     I don’t know, honestly.
BOY.     It must be my irrestistible charm. A lot of people have that problem.
GIRL.     I mean it, you really sicken me.
I just finished my first complete draft ( Read more... )

Also: I think I'm going to sneak in another one-off film (#2.1?) sometime in the next month or so, a rehearsal to working with improv and collaborating organically with story.

I can't blame my actors entirely for this. It was bound to happen. As I said in the eulogizing email:The nature of certain film projects, much like the improv project we'd started together, is that you need to work fast and loose, while the energy of something fresh is in the air. You need to "strike while the iron's hot," as the tacky cliché ( Read more... )