Hey! We've got a treatment! We're going to break for lunch, then come back and add sluglines to it and start writing! A word of caution. We really leaned into the genre on this one. Like, there's a whole lot of really weird sex and people die gruesomely. Our moms and grandmas would probably do … Continue reading Treatment!
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Film 17 (a): The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) dir. J. S. Watson, Jr. & Melville Webber. USA.An avant-garde experimental film, the visual element predominates, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion.[1] There is no dialogue, though one part features letters moving across the screen. -- Wikipedia (who else would write about this minor horror … Continue reading Film 17 (a): The Fall of the House of Usher
Film 16: The Circus
The Circus (1928) dir. Charlie Chaplin. USA. Charlie Chaplin was a perfectionist in his films and a calamity in his private life. These two traits clashed as he was making "The Circus," one of his funniest films and certainly the most troubled. When he sat down to write his autobiography, he simply never mentioned it, … Continue reading Film 16: The Circus
Film 15: Un Chien Andalou
Un Chien Andalou (1928) dir. Luis Buñuel. France. Abigail: So. This exists. It is. That is all. I guess not actually, but this is my take away from the film. The image of a woman getting her eye sliced open is memorable, I suppose. My theory is Bunuel used this to launch his career, and … Continue reading Film 15: Un Chien Andalou
Film 10 : Greed
Greed (1925) dir. Erich von Stroheim. USA. 'Indeed the film is realistic. Opening scenes were shot in the very gold mine that Norris wrote about; it was reopened for the movie. The San Francisco dentist's office was not a set but a real second-floor office, which still exists. Von Stroheim could have shot his desert scenes … Continue reading Film 10 : Greed
Film 1: Cabiria
Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone. Italy. [As we work our way through our film history docket, we'll post (very) short write-ups of each movie, along with a piece of insight.] "The movie feels old, and by that I mean older than 1914. It feels like a view of ancient times, or at least of those … Continue reading Film 1: Cabiria
Film History Docket
Here it is! 365 films for 365 days. These are all significant movies that we haven't seen, taken (largely) from one of three lists. First, the 2012 Sight & Sound Best Films list, as voted on by prominent critics and directors. We combined the critics list and the directors list, eliminated duplicates, and eliminated films … Continue reading Film History Docket
Post Mortem Video Q&A
We sat down to do a little one-on-one interview with one another, to go over our thoughts and takeaways from the project. If you're looking for 13 minutes of two people talking about a script they wrote, look no further.
Our Previous Film Docket
This idea of making a docket of films as a sort of informal film history crash course isn't a new one. We did it a couple of years ago, albeit on a smaller scale, before we moved to LA. The movies on our first docket were pretty arbitrary. We basically sat down and said, "What … Continue reading Our Previous Film Docket
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