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Recognize the new cast member this week, Canada? Montreal’s French-language film star Evelyne Brochu (POLYTECHNIQUE, INCH’ALLAH, CAFE DE FLORE) yes, plays Cosima’s new friend, Delphine.
Is Delphine a monitor?
All About Ava: a typical day at my kitchen table, a space reserved for the work of adapting Ian Hamilton’s wonderful mysteries series for films with, thank goodness, his generous & invaluable guidance.
Tools: hard copies of the books, highlighters, a 3” D-ring binder for the working & published Drafts (for making my own changes & cuts by hand), Notes and Correspondence - printed out -, a dedicated Moleskine (where I work things out beat by beat before I type anything), stickies, endless colour-coded stickies, pens - Uniball Fines & Sharpies - though the purple is unusual and probably nicked from a tv writing room along the way.
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it`s like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. John Waters
I continue to support peaceful demonstrations against any law that makes the public expressions against the suppression of free speech illegal.
June 2nd in solidarity with the Quebec student movement.
Stand up Against Austerity
Stand up against Bill C-38 and 78
my all-time favourite film made its US theatrical debut 25 years ago today.
25 years ago today, WITHNAIL AND I premiered in New York.
from the original screenplay by Tom Schulman
Dead Poets Society (via blankpagesandinvisibleink)
An original screenplay? Nothing to it really. Just come up with a new and fresh and different story that builds logically to a satisfying and surprising conclusion (because Art, as we all know, needs to be both surprising and inevitable).
Do you know how hard that is?
”(Click the title to read the item I refer to, New Readers). While always wary of attempts to quantify creativity, or perpetuate the myth that there is any given way to be a better writer… this item caught my eye because I hand-write everything exploratory. From tag-lines to character descriptions to beating scenes and sequences and mapping structure and plots, it gets worked over with a favourite brand of pen in a moleskine, or on a sticky note, index card or anything that affixes itself to a surface I can step back and stare at, first. Even my project diaries are lists. The exception is dialogue. My characters tend to talk fast and tell me more if I free-type, and then though - I print and edit them - for timing & voice - by hand.
BAFTA Best Film artwork arrives
BAFTA has commissioned a series of brochure covers to accompany the Best Film nominees ahead of next Sunday’s award ceremony, and rather gorgeous they are too…
