CompoundArt

EDINBURGH 2016 – ALBATROSS [4.5/5.

COMPOUND ART REVIEW of “Albatross“ written by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett directed by My focus is upon scriptwriting and production elements that demonstrate some particular attributes of Compound Art theory or construction so you must seek elsewhere for plot summaries and more general production details.                                                        rating 4.5 out of 5 The…

Cronus, hurry the children! Our shuttle takes off any time now.  You have to make them leave behind those stones you carved for markers in their little Sky Watch Game. The handbook is very emphatic that we can only take away what we brought with us. Thank Saturn, you’re all here. Strap yourselves in. We have a long trip ahead. Have you heard yet what our new assignment will be? I hope it’s closer…

EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

  Breakfast feels very different than dinner. Especially since last night was, well there’s no other way to say it, a bit over the top, or was that under the weather.  Marco’s parties are always the best. The girls he finds are ou-la-la. The barbecue so tender and the burgundy! The port moved with us into the card room and the old whiskey buoyed me up when I lost. But I am never so good at cards.…

During the first years she was unremarkable, like any other weather-worn space of land where glacier erratics mixed with mismatched bits of local rock and sand. Then animals crawled out of the ocean on four legs and later on two. Their wanderings packed the soil into a hunter-gathering route that gradually curved along her eastern side. She began to sense herself to be apart. More men arrived,…

A good girl, Daisy followed her mother into that art gallery because she’d insisted they needed to get a bit of culture. All around the first room there were pictures that to Daisy’s eyes seemed much too alike. In the next room the pictures also appeared to be nearly but not quite identical. Room after room the drawings continued to show the same old woman sitting in that same chair facing…

TIFF 2015 – “Ivy”

A Writing Craft Review of the  screenplay by Tolga Karacelik and Bilge Elif Özköse for the movie “Ivy” directed by Tolga Karacelik (These are snap judgements devoid of plot summaries and prone to spoilers)                                                                 rating 2 out of 5 The story at the heart of “Ivy” is old, a ship trapped by the doldrums and its crew falling victim to internal…

TIFF 2015 – Bjørn Olaf Johannessen

A Writing Craft Review of the  screenplay written by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen for the movie “Everything Will Be Fine” directed by Wim Wenders (These are snap judgements devoid of plot summaries and prone to spoilers)                                                                 rating 2 out of 5 Beautifully photographed with a sophisticated use of 3D in realistic filmmaking. The script however,…

TIFF2015 – “The Lobster”

A Writing Craft Review of the  screenplay written by Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou for the movie “The Lobster” directed by Yorgos Lanthimos  (These are snap judgements devoid of plot summaries and prone to spoilers)                                                                 rating 2 out of 5 An absurdist tale that feels like a study of the various lengths people are willing to go in…

If Arnie Philbert asked his father about his mother Mr. Philbert would always get out the boy’s birth certificate that proved her name had been named Eleanor Philbert and her death certificate that showed she had died on the day that Arnie was born. Then Mr. Philbert would repeat how when the nurse had put the bundle in his arms he hadn’t known how to go on. The baby was so little. How was he to…