So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Carol did what slow-burning scripts do, which is make me put it down three times before I can finish it. It takes off on pg 95 of 118, and glides across the finish line on…
Read moreThere Will Be Spoilers #5: THE END OF THE TOUR
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. The End of the Tour is a word-lover’s script about a hero writer, with built-in pilgrimage sales to everyone who was transformed, even for a moment, by Infinite Jest. It is based on a book…
Read moreThere Will Be Spoilers #4: GRANDMA
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Grandma is the perfect indie. Focused, crackling, cheap to make, plum roles, juicy scenework. Its 88 pages go roaring by in a jetstream of carefully layered and unsentimental drama. It handles its backstory with a…
Read moreThere Will Be Spoilers #3: TRAINWRECK
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Trainwreck is charming and foul. It is most fresh when Amy Schumer is squinting suspiciously at the idea that there’s a payoff to being a Good Girl. It gets conventional again when she (inevitably) falls…
Read moreThere Will be Spoilers #2: MISSISSIPPI GRIND
So I decided to read and remark upon all the awards scripts that are going around in Caty’s excellent post. Mississippi Grind is an inexpensive little buddy drama with a lot of heart and a middle weight hook. Two very different gamblers meet by chance (how else would they meet?) and perpetual loser Gerry believes…
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