In addition to name-brand talents, Tales from the Script features newcomers whose stories prove that talented people can write their way into the top ranks of the movie industry. The stories behind the storytellers are as exciting, surprising, and inspirational as the narratives of their celebrated films. Learn how they surmounted the incredible odds against breaking into Hollywood, and discover the myriad ways in which they transformed their ideas into films that topped the box office, launched the careers of major stars, and earned them Oscars. So if you're a writer eager to break into Hollywood or simply a movie buff excited to hear the stories behind your favorite films, this unique nonfiction book/documentary film project will captivate you with insights into the wild and mysterious world of Hollywood screenwriting.Įnjoy inside conversations with the men and women who dreamed up some of the world's most beloved movie characters. Prods./Wtrs.: Peter Hanson, Paul Robert Hermanįew modern art forms are as misunderstood as the craft of screenwriting, because the collaborative nature of filmmaking and the dominance of celebrity actors and directors obscures the contributions of screenwriters. Shot by him and other members of 1st Battalion, 4th Marines on the outset of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Severe Clear is based on the memoir by First Lieutenant Mike Scotti as well as video footage Venue: Angelika Film Center/New York City Gaslamp Stadium/San Diego Harlan is a fascinating exploration into the murky waters of a family's unique, disturbing relationship to one of history's worst crimes. Others claim he was forced to direct the film and deride it as loathsome, crudely-made propaganda. Some have changed their name and left Germany. Today, his children and grandchildren consider his legacy and the hard questions it continues to pose. At the war's end, the filmmaker was prosecuted for crimes against humanity, but acquitted. A drama set in 18th century Germany, it purports to tell the true story of a Jew who dresses incognito (as a Christian), corrupts a local Duke, restructures the government to bleed the people through punitive taxes, and forces himself upon a beautiful, married Christian woman (played by Kristina Söderbaum, Harlan's third wife). The infamous Jew Süss (1940), directed by Veit Harlan, and produced under Joseph Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda, was the Nazis' most vicious anti-Semitic film. New York's Film Forum brackets the month with Felix Moeller's Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss, about Third Reich era filmmaker Veit Harlan and his troubled and troubling legacy and The Sun Behind the Clouds, from Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, about Tibet's ongoing struggle for independence. Also on tap for March are a couple of Hollywood-oriented docs: Peter Hanson and Paul Robert Herman's Tales from the Script, about the art and business-and travails-of the screenwriting trade and Don Hahn's Waking Sleeping Beauty, a chronicle of golden age of animated blockbusters, from The Little Mermaid through The Lion King. Nazism and its demons is still a moneymaker in the media world.DocuWeeks 2009 alums Severe Clear (Dir.: Kristian Fraga) and Kimjongilia (Dir.: NC Heikin) open in theaters this month, as does IDA Fiscal Sponsoree See What I'm Saying (Dir.: Hilari Much like Fassbinder's "Lili Marleen" or Szabó's "Mephisto".
Blind, boisterous, excessive, orgastic, self-indulgent, greedy, in curling pastel colors. "Jud Süss" is played out as the war operetta it was. Not to mention the brilliant scene where the merrymaking German locals whines about the crumbs that the American liberators hands over to the surviving camp inmates. Many have been outraged by the unabashed rough sex between Gudrun Landgrebe's and Tobias Moretti's characters. De- demonizing the clowns and incarcerating the followers. This film delivers a different message and conclusion. Not now, when we finally have mapped and interpreted Nazism forever. The Third Reich is not to be trifled with. Director Oskar Roehler clarified "Our aim was to enter the innermost sanctum of Nazi high society, and to portray how seducible artists were in the Third Reich". German films about Nazism often face the evil eye from reviewers.