More goodies!

Steve Allen interview keeps fascinating.

The Full Movie!

Thank you YouTube!





(smart people can also download the film through here)

A List of Movies

A list of movies I'd like to check out after reading Billy Dolores' hipster Lodown magazine. Thought I'd share. Some are unbeknown to me, some had already been recommended by folks, some are classics and others are from well-known directors but not necessarily their most famous work. If you've seen one of these films, by all means feel free to recommend or dismiss because I have a feeling I might not like a few titles, so opinions are more than welcome.

Bleeder by Nicolas Winding Refn - 1999

Kyua (Cure) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa - 1997

Swingers by Doug Liman - 1996

Der Totmacher by Romuald Karmakar - 1995

Clean, Shaven by Lodge H. Kerrigan - 1994

Metal Skin by Geoffrey Wright - 1994

Laws of Gravity by Nick Gomez - 1992

Léolo by Jean-Claude Lauzon - 1992

Begotten by E. Elias Merhige - 1991

The People Under the Stairs by Wes Craven - 1991

The Reflecting Skin by Philip Ridley - 1990

Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo by Uli Edel - 1981

Prince of the City by Sidney Lumet - 1981

Southern Comfort by Walter Hill - 1981

Animal House by John Landis - 1978

The Last House on the Left by Wes Craven - 1972

Hellzapoppin by H.C. Potter - 1941

The Line-Painter Dilemma

Screenwriter Parables by J.A.:
The Line-Painter Dilemma

A guy is hired to paint the yellow line down the middle of a country road. The first day, he paints five miles. His supervisor is impressed. The second day, he only paints two miles. His supervisor thinks, “Well, maybe he had a bad day.” But the third day, the guy only paints half a mile. The supervisor asks the guy what’s wrong — why is he getting so much less done?

“Well,” the guy says, “I have to keep walking back to the paint can.”

The screenwriting equivalent, of course, is that at the start of each day’s work, one’s instinct is to go back to page one and read-slash-revise up to where you left off. Which is a very counter-productive habit.