I’ve been watching and studying a lot of horror films lately. 

Netflix Update Part 7!

55. Where The Sidewalk Ends

56. The Boxer

57. Goya’s Ghosts

58. Pollock

59. The Rock-afire Explosion

60. Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop

61. The Kennel Murder Case

62. Party Girl

63. The Invisible Man

64. Lost in La Mancha

65. Page One: Inside the New York Times

66. Giant (halfway through, forgive me, it’s 12000 hours long)


So I get that GOYA’S GHOSTS is wildly uneven, but I think it’s also wildly under-rated. There’s a lot of really intriguing stuff going on in there, and it has easily one of my favorite endings I’ve seen in years. Some of their narrative choices don’t help the actors, but Bardem and Portman give really strange and unique performances that I think are well worth checking out for an instant view.
 
Also, THE KENNEL MURDER CASE is a blast, one of the true “they don’t make them like this anymore”. It’s a classic whodunit that wastes not even a second. 

Netflix Update Part 6!

45. My Left Foot

46. The Outsider: A Film About James Toback

47. Wrecked

48. Dirty Harry

49. The Day of the Dolphin

50. Primary Colors

51. Heartburn

52. Catch-22

53. Hurry Sundown

54. The Man With The Golden Arm

DIRTY HARRY was easily my favorite of this bunch. I was surprised how much I enjoyed MY LEFT FOOT, and how much THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM didn’t really work for me. I’ve no cleared through Preminger’s films on Streaming, as well as Mike Nichols.

I also kind of loved THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN. Just for existing and playing it all so straight faced. 

“What’s Your Favorite Movie Of All Time?”

I get asked this a lot, so I’ll answer it here too.

It’s a threesome between CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, E.T. and the original KING KONG. Some days THE FLY flirts with breaking in there too. I think all four are really similar in certain ways. Hopefully a shrink can tell me what that means about myself. 

Netflix Update Part 5!

I lost track of the weeks because my life has become completely insane. I don’t think I’ve ever been more busy than I’ve been in the first three months of this year. There’s so much I want to talk about and I’m so excited but I have to be a cliche and not talk about it yet. 

What can I talk about? Well I’m tired so I’m just gonna talk about my Netflix progress. I’m down to 166 films!

32. Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil

33. Four Lions

34. Ghostbusters II

35. Boxcar Bertha

36. Never Say Never

37. Krull

38. The Disappearance of Alice Creed

39. The Burrowers

40. The Naked Spur

41. Obselidia

42. The Gate

43. Being Elmo

44. Murder by Decree

Have you guys seen BEING ELMO? That movie wrecked me and filled me with so much love. Watch it dudes.

And I feel like I say this a lot, but I’ll try to be better at posting more. I have a bunch of great questions to answer here that I need to get to, and if anyone has any questions on basically anything, ask away guys. 

I will write a tiny story at 100 to 400 words long based on your subject of choice for $5!

Just wanted to try this out for the weekend and see what’s what. Party with me.

The ScriptShadow Interview

Hey gang,

Maybe it’s old news, maybe it’s not, but I was interviewed over at Script Shadow last week:

http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2012/02/screenwriter-interview-brian-duffield.html

As always, if there are any writerly questions you have that weren’t addressed here, hit me up on Twitter and I’ll answer them here. If they’re not spoilery, that is. You nutjobs love ask spoilery questions. 

Big news coming y’all. 2012!

Netflix Resolution Week 4

A slower week because I’m so nutso busy. Week 5’s gonna be NOTHING. This week was additionally tough since I’ve hit a pretty big losing streak of films. Hoping for something to win my heart any day now…

24. Witness for the Prosecution

25. Stripes

26. College

27. All Good Things

28. The Last Word

29. Carmen Jones

30. One from the Heart

31. Carlito’s Way

I’m in this.

Good job, Matt Wells!

Screenwriter. Dinosaur Enthusiast. Cibopath.

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