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Wallace & Gromit + The Snowman

◊→ A Grand Day Out ⇐

‘A Grand Day Out’ (full name ‘A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit’) is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog […]

National Film Board of Canada

◊ Drawing Inspiration ⇔

‘A wino, resigned and stuck in his ways, finds mysterious sketches on the park bench that he visits every day. As these pictures stir his thoughts, he begins to notice the world around him and to reflect upon his own place within it. He meets a young boy whose […]

Jim Jarmusch

♦ ◊ ♦ Down By Law ↓ (1986)

It all happens in New Orleans. DJ Zack and pimp Jack are sent to prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn’t commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the […]

‘Smoke’ + ‘Blue in the Face’

◊  «Smoke»  ↓   Wayne Wang + Paul Auster  1995

 

Read SCRIPT…→http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texts/articles/paul-auster-smoke_699.html←

•→  SMOKE & ILLUSIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL AUSTER ← [read]

♦ ◊  ‘Blue in the Face‘, a sequel to ‘Smoke‘ ↓ highlights

Auggie (Harvey Keitel) runs a tobacconist’s in Brooklyn, while Jim Jarmusch comes into the […]

Do the Right Thing [Spike Lee, 1989]

•→ Spike Lee Movie Scripts ⇐

Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY.

Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin’ […]

Monologues

♣  Three reading links at monologuearchive.com:

•→dramatic_men⇐    /    •→comic_women⇐    /    •→children⇐

¤  Bob Rafelson‘s «Five Easy Pieces» [1970]

⇓ Bobby Dupea’s (Jack Nicholson) monologue with his old mute father

Are […]

The Visitor [T. McCarthy, 2008]

The Visitor is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Executive producers were Jeff Skoll and Omar Amanat. The screenplay focuses on a lonely man in late middle age whose life changes when he is caught up in the […]

Walkabout [N. Roeg]

Very few films achieve a kind of subliminal greatness with cross-cultural impact, but Walkabout is one of those: a visual tone poem that functions more as an allegory than a conventionally plotted adventure.

Considered a cult favorite for years, Nicolas Roeg‘s 1971 film is about two British […]