Touch of Evil

I saw a beautiful print of Orson Welles' classic "Touch of Evil" at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center last night. The opening shot is about a 5 minute take and it's one of the best things I've ever seen on screen. I would love to go back in time and watch them film that shot. I can only imagine how much work and how many people it takes to pull off a complex shot like that.

Okay, back to work on my script.

Stephen Shore

This is a beautiful image by one of my favorite photographers, Stephen Shore. My screenplay is a road movie and this image has served as an inspiration for finishing the script during many of my late night writing sessions. Enjoy.

Back to School

I'm spending the summer finishing up a screenplay that I've been working on for a while in conjunction with a screenwriting class I'm taking. The class has been incredibly helpful in ironing out the problems I've been having with the story. I had never taken a screenwriting class before, but I wish I had. I've already signed up for an advanced class in the fall. I also secretly took the class to wet my appetite for grad school, and it has. I am totally applying to Columbia.

Good movies you should see:

Frozen River (Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner)
Man On Wire (Sundance winner also)
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan continues to impress)
Tropic Thunder (Downey, Jr. is comedy gold)

The New York Film Festival starts next month and being a member of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, I get first dibs on tickets. I'm hoping to get a chance to see Clint Eastwood and Darren Aronofsky's new movies, "Changeling" and "The Wrestler," but being the most anticipated movies of the festival, they will no doubt sell out quickly. I'm tempted to see Soderbergh's ridiculously long bio-pic "Che," but I don't know if I have the patience for it.

-Anthony