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Touchstone (3. All the Time in the World)
Baby, baby, baby… you’re out of time… Rachel, lost and alone... read more
Ghosts on the Moor
Three women spend Christmas in a remote cottage on Dartmoor to escape problems... read more
Lovers in Paris
Can your love live up to the most romantic city in the world? It’s Disneyland... read more
Touchstone (2. Family at War) – a time travel Blitz story
The unforgettable fire… Continuing the adventures of Rachel and Danny, a... read more
Meet me in Montmartre
New Year’s Eve. An English girl. A French boy. A blind date. A kiss... read more
The Striker’s Fear of the Open Goal
Get a life. Get the girl. Get to Wembley. Ewan Glumie was born on the day Man... read more
The Budapest Breakfast Club
This summer: Go to Budapest… Make a movie… Have an affair. Ten... read more
The Very Thought of You
What happens when you fall in love with a woman who died before you were born?... read more
Train Can’t Bring Me Home
Love. Literature… and Tom Waits. Lots of Tom Waits. 1993. The former... read more
The Girl with the Bomb Inside
School is shit, your hero killed himself and your girlfriend’s pregnant.... read more
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Monthly Archives: July 2007
The great British screenplay…
A little while ago on the Screenwriters’ bulletin we tried to come up with a list of British screenplays worth studying for budding UK screenwriters. I could name a hundred British movies with great scripts but I’ve tried to concentrate on ones where a draft screenplay is actually available for study. This means I can’t really mention a favourite of mine: Michael Eaton’s Fellow Traveller, which you can’t get anywhere, nor Peter Chelsom and Adrian Dunbar’s screenplay for Hear My Song, …
Now do you get it?
So anyway, I’ve been catching up on some early Seinfeld courtesy of the miracle of DVD box sets, and pontificating on how there are two kinds of people in this crazy, mixed up world. There are those who get Seinfeld, and there are those who don’t. And those who don’t get it, I realise with increasing frequency, are people I will never fully trust. I caught on to Seinfeld late, thanks to the BBC’s typical foresight and sensitivity in buying …
Steps back in amazement…
I made a really big breakthrough the other night with Players, the TV pilot about seduction artists I’m writing. I’d thought it was ready to go until we picked at a little thread and the whole thing came apart. So there I was, building a whole new story on the foundations of the first (I’m mixing the weaving and building metaphors here, I know. Just go with it). But what saved me was going back to the age old method: writing …
Vlogging. How hard can it be?
Well, I’m back from a hectic week at the Cheltenham Screenwriters’ Festival where I managed to network with some of the greatest names in screenwriting.I came up with the barmy plan to do a video blog for Shooting People, presenting a fast-cut, action-packed movie of festival events each day. How hard could it be? Well, when it’s 3am on the first night and you’ve only just finished editing your first piece, which you started at 10.30 and it only lasts …
