Watched both L'Eclisse and The Passenger this week.

The Passenger wins. The Special Features on L'Eclisse make it very worthwhile (and if he hadn't created the first two films in the trilogy the quiet, creepy, domestic weirdness would be unique), but L'Eclisse does not compare to L'Avventura, or The Passenger. If I had any interest in film criticism or theory, I would go into detail. But I don't and I won't.

I should probably use a ten point system...Pitchfork Style (so pretentious, like a 5.7 means so much...5.3, wow, that's WAY different...playing on numerological patterns and our symbolic collective subconscious. Very manipulative) for ease of handling. The Passenger 8.6 L'Eclisse 7.3


YUMI UPDATE

I'm currently working on "Sound Section" 16 out of the 51 sections I divided the film into.

CINEMANOVEL UPDATE

I'm on page 73 of this film script. I'm REALLY looking forward to this one. It's very novelistic, and very much concerned with one central character. A departure for me. She's in every scene, and I enjoy writing this way because you really get to know your character. Now, where can I get in touch with Irene Jacob...

SIDEKICKS UPDATE

Auditions have begun. We're moving ahead with the pilot episode, and then we'll try and sell it or set it up with a broadcaster (hopefully set it up and run it for them!).

V.O.
In my Screenwriting class we had a discussion of Voice Over. In the (recent) past, Voice-Over narration has been given a bad name. I rarely use it in my films, but there's absolutely no reason to avoid it if you know how to write.

A QUICK "off the top of my head" LIST OF FILMS THAT FEATURE VOICE OVER NARRATION

Le Plaisir
Apocalypse Now
L.A. Confidential
Primer
Nine Lives
Jules and Jim
Memento
Taxi Driver
Diary of a Country Priest
Double Indemnity
Days of Heaven
Goodfellas
Barry Lyndon
Sunset Blvd
American Beauty
The Big Lebowski
The Magnificent Ambersons
Lady from Shanghai (welles)
Blade Runner
A Clockwork Orange
Manhattan
Mighty Aphrodite
The Royal Tenenbaums
Adaptation
Contempt
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Rules of Attraction
The Passion of Anna