This is your chance to discuss the week’s amateur scripts, offered originally in the Scriptshadow newsletter. The primary goal for this discussion is to find out which script(s) is the best candidate for a future Amateur Friday review. The secondary goal is to keep things positive in the comments with constructive criticism. Below are the […]

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The pre-eminent writer-director It’s coming off this week that I hate French cinema. Not true. I couldn’t blanketly hate every movie that came out of a country. Like I said, I liked The Intouchables. I liked Amelie. But I do think the majority of French films are pretentious, directionless, and badly written. One commenter had […]

Genre: Heist Premise: An American thief living in Paris (Paris. See?? French Week!) is coerced into pulling off a complex heist in order to save his kidnapped wife. About: Today’s script finished low on the 2011 Black List. It was originally a pitch that started a bidding war, with Dreamworks delivering the winning bid over […]

Genre: Crime/Drama/Foreign (French) Premise: (from IMDB) A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him. About: “Breathless” was one of the most famous films of the French New Wave. The French New Wave was a movement in the 1960s where filmmakers began rejecting the traditional […]