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Eleven Non-Exclusive Photos From UNDER THE SILVER LAKE

By Ray Pride - Friday, May 4th, 2018

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Trailering UNDER THE SILVER LAKE

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

2017 FYC (For Your Consideration) Screenplays Now Up To 36 Titles

By Ray Pride - Sunday, December 24th, 2017

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Battle of the Sexes, written by Simon Beaufoy

Beauty and the Beast, screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos; based on 1991 animated film written by Linda Woolvert

The Beguiled, Written by Sofia Coppola, based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan

The Big Sick, Written by Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon [secondary link]

Brad’s Status, Written by Mike White

Breathe, Written by William Nicholson

Brigsby Bear, Story by Kyle Mooney; Screenplay by Kevin Costello & Kyle Mooney

Coco, Original Story By Lee Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich, Adrian Molina; Screenplay By Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich

Darkest Hour, Written By Anthony McCarten

The Disaster Artist, Written by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell

Downsizing, Written by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor

A Fantastic Woman,  Screenplay by Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza

First They Killed My Father, Screenplay by Loung Ung & Angelina Jolie; Based on the Book “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” by Loung Ung

The Florida Project, Written by Sean Baker & Chris Bergoch

Get Out, by Jordan Peele

Guardians of the Galaxy V. 2. Written by James Gunn

Happy End, Written By Michael Haneke

I, Tonya, Written by Steven Rogers

Lady Bird, Written by Greta Gerwig

Last Flag Flying, by Richard Linklater & Darryl Ponicsan

Logan, Story by James Mangold. Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green

The Lost City of Z, Screenplay by James Gray; Based on the Book by David Grann

Loveless, By Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev

The Man Who Invented Christmas, Screenplay by Susan Coyne; Based on the Book by Les Standiford

Mark Felt, Written by Peter Landesman

Maudie, Written by Sherrie White

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Written by Noah Baumbach

mother!, Written by Darren Aronofsky

Mudbound, Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan

Norman, By Joseph Cedar

Novitiate, By Maggie Betts

Okja, Written by Bong Joon Ho and Jon Ronson

The Shape of Water, Written by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Written by Martin McDonagh

Thor: Ragnarok, Written by Eric Pearson and Craig Kyle & Christopher L. Yost

Victoria & Abdul, By Lee Hall

War For The Planet of the Apes, Written by Mark Bomback & Matt Reeves; Based on Characters Created by Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver

Wonderstruck, Written by Brian Selznick

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James Gunn And James Mangold On Politics At The End Of 2017

By Ray Pride - Saturday, December 16th, 2017

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Craft Summit 2017: The Art of Editing with Walter Murch (58 min)

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, November 29th, 2017

19 For Your Consideration Screenplays Await

By Ray Pride - Friday, November 17th, 2017

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PDF downloads, for at least the duration of the 2017 awards season.

Battle of the Sexes, written by Simon Beaufoy

Beauty and the Beast, screenplay by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos; based on 1991 animated film written by Linda Woolvert

The Beguiled, Written by Sofia Coppola, based on the novel by Thomas Cullinan

The Big Sick, Written by Kumail Nanjiani & Emily V. Gordon

Brad’s Status, Written by Mike White

Breathe, Written by William Nicholson

First They Killed My Father, Screenplay by Loung Ung & Angelina Jolie; Based on the Book “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” by Loung Ung

Guardians of the Galaxy V. 2. Written by James Gunn.

I, Tonya, Written by Steven Rogers

Last Flag Flying, by Richard Linklater & Darryl Ponicsan

Logan, Story by James Mangold. Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green

The Lost City of Z, Screenplay by James Gray; Based on the Book by David Grann

The Man Who Invented Christmas, Screenplay by Susan Coyne; Based on the Book by Les Standiford

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Written by Noah Baumbach

mother!, Written by Darren Aronofsky

Mudbound, Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees; Based on the Novel by Hillary Jordan

Okja, Written by Bong Joon Ho and Jon Ronson

The Shape of Water, Written by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor [withdrawn]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Written by Martin McDonagh

Wonderstruck, Written by Brian Selznick

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“The Making of an Underground Film,” “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite,” 12/31/1965

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

Six Minutes With The Safdies In The Criterion Closet

By Ray Pride - Monday, September 11th, 2017

The Key West Hemingway Cats Are Safe (With 66-Second Doc On 12-Toed Cats)

By Ray Pride - Sunday, September 10th, 2017


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Jerry Lewis On Using Video Replay, From “The Total Filmmaker”

By Ray Pride - Sunday, August 20th, 2017

Jerry Lewis on Video

Trailering Ai Weiwei’s “Human Flow”

By Ray Pride - Friday, August 18th, 2017

A Trailer And A Scene From Steve DeJarnatt’s MIRACLE MILE

By Ray Pride - Tuesday, August 8th, 2017


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PTA’s “Right Now” Video For Haim (4’31”)

By Ray Pride - Sunday, April 30th, 2017

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Jonathan Demme in the Modern World: On MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004)

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

Unlike his actors, Demme saw John Frankenheimer’s film on its first release. “I saw the original when I was a teenager,” he tells me. “I was an avid moviegoer, I saw everything,” he says, hardly taking a breath.

DEMME: Everything, everything. I was really hooked on movies at a very young age. The Manchurian Candidate, along with Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove [were] this quartet of anarchistic black-and-white American movies, each of which did things that you just didn’t do in American movies, especially in the realm of irreverence toward politics and government institutions and the Army. I was what, 16, it was shocking, it was thrilling and interestingly, it predated my exposure to the French New Wave, so in away, this was the American, a certain kind of new wave in American movies. So Manchurian Candidate was a trailblazer, it was a shocker, it was a great picture and it altered the way I thought about movies! [Demme caps the rush of words with a pleased whooshing sound.]

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Jonathan Demme And Paul Thomas Anderson In Conversation (2015) (26’46”)

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, April 26th, 2017

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon