Once upon a time, there was, born in Niagara Falls, Canada, a boy named Walter Rilke. For his eighth birthday his Father, in his failed wisdom, gave him a camera. No one within a focal distance of six inches to infinity would ever be safe again –The Kid with The Camera
Screenplays
An inept architect falls in love, loses his darling wife, his two wonderful children, his architectural masterpiece, and ultimately his own life, when he meets Nina, a girl of undetermined age.
An account of the strange and talented photographer Walter Rilke's meteoric rise among the art world elite of 1980s-era New York, and his catastrophic, violent downfall - the inevitable result of the brutality that accompanies his brilliance.
A paranoid older man loses his young, pregnant, trophy wife's dog in the middle of nowhere. Over the course of a night searching for animal, their relationship disintegrates, he becomes more and more unhinged, suspects she cheated on him and plots her murder.
A man finds out who he really is after accidentally coming home to the wrong suburban house; the family who lives there fails to notice he doesn’t belong.
Before there was a TV series with the same name, I was inspired by Robert Frank's The Americans.
Short scripts
Richards: “You called sir?”The Old Man stands behind his gold French provincial desk starring out the window of his penthouse office seventy-eight floors above the ground. The Old Man: “Yes. Richards, you know, I’ve been thinking...” Richards: “I can tell, sir.”
PAUL
Do you want to get a motel room? Fool around?
ANNA
I dunno, maybe. Is that all you ever think about?
PAUL
No. I think of other stuff.
She said...
E.C.U. Woman’s Lips speaking in silence
“One day I’m going to fly away from here,” I was with her when she bought the ticket.
Anna, a waitress who wishes she was Audrey Hepburn, takes her suicidal friend Paul to the zoo, on what may be the last day of his life.
somedays are better than others, a novel
An in progress novel or novella, about The Much-Hyped End Of The World As We Know It, staring Sir Paul, Bono, Jesus... It's epic.
NOTES & OUTLINES & LOGLINES & SYNOPSES ETC. (SCREENWRITING PROCESS)
"I just don't know...why?"
"I told you already. I can't do this anymore."
"I know you said that."
"I can't. I'm done. I'm going to Paris."
"You're going to Paris?"
"Yes."
"Paris? France?"
"Yes. Paris, France."
"You don't speak French."
"You can barely speak English, but you do OK here."
AVA
I said I was having your love child.
Long pause.
ROBERT
That's not funny. Tell me you didn't say that to her? Jesus.
AVA
Yes. I need a cigarette.
ROBERT
Ava? Don't mess with me here.
AVA
I do need a cigarette, you left me waiting for 45 minutes.
ROBERT
No, no. What did my wife say? Ava?
AVA
Oh, I don't know. She swore a lot at me. Called me all sorts of names. She said she was going to go to her lawyer.
ROBERT
Oh God. She'll take everything.
He gets up frantically. He runs off and out the door. She finishes her drink.
AVA
So will I.
Notes:
postmodern girls
brutal dialogue
complete honesty and completly fake (fashion photography)
destroy everything they touch.
tennis court.
ungentelmen (look nice, but are fucks)
marketing: download and remix film. Add your own commercials.
a wall with a rail, or a small bar to set drinks on and lean against seperating a wallpaper background in half. A woman drinks wine and a white guy plays on his blackberry - a black guy talks out of frame (from a photo)
A film as magazine.
INT. BATHROOM - EMILY
EMILY (21) wearing a BRA and T&A SWEATS, shaves her armpit with her arm raised above her head.
She washes the GILLETTE razor in the sink.
When she is finished with freshly shaved armpits, she stops for a moment, looks down at her waist and loosens her waistband. She checks out her pubic area (not on screen).
CUT TO:
On a fall night, a lone man walks into town barefoot. Is he Jesus, or just a homeless man?