Joseph Oppenheim Film

I love films. My project for 2011 is to write a screenplay. This blog will track that and also express my comments about films, in general and specific.

Sunday, March 31, 2013

"Persona" Character Development Software

I just ordered "Persona" Character Development Software from the Writers Store....

http://www.writersstore.com/persona-character-development-software/

Hopefully, it will help me in developing the characters in my screenplay.


Saturday, March 16, 2013

2013 Black Mountain Ranch Film Festival

I've just begun the annual Black Mountain Ranch (of California) Film Festival, this for 2013......my favorite films of 2012 (all received 5 out of 5 stars from me). I organize them as the winner (Silver Linings Playbook) followed by the others in no particular order.

1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. The Giant Mechanical Man*
4. Ruby Sparks
5. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
6. Your Sister's Sister
7. Detachment*
8. Bernie*
9. Big Miracle
10. The Words

* These films can be watched on Netflix "Watch Instantly."

Sunday, February 10, 2013

My Favorite Films, Updated, etc.

It's been awhile since I updated this blog.....so, a few things......my screenplay, I do think I'll stay with the title I gave it, at least for awhile, as stories do kind of take their own direction as I continue my re-writing and developing it, so my title, "It Happens!" Two people have read it and I am truly thankful to them. I must admit that I know I am not following all the rules a writer should follow, like doing some writing/re-writing of it every day, but I do write something somewhere about something, like here, every day. I WILL NOT be a typical writer....I strive for something different.....a film like none other. Screenwriting has been called the most complex craft in the world and I have found that statement pretty accurate as best I can tell. So, for me, it isn't just the writing, but the thought which goes into it, and I am not limiting my thoughts, especially what guides me with what or how much I actually write each day.

And what is guiding me a lot are the films I watch, and this year's "Silver Linings Playbook" has affected me like few others in 60+ years of being a movie fan. So, since I haven't updated my list of favorite films in awhile, I'll do it now, adding that film high up on my list, plus my favorite film of the year before, "Drive" and of the year before that, "Greenberg," also adding "Knocked Up"......

Favorite Films
1. When Harry Met Sally
      2.  Keeping the Faith
      3.  Keith
      4.  Office Space
      5.  Murphy’s Romance
      6.  Across the Universe
      7. Love with the Proper Stranger
      8. Silver Linings Handbook
      9. The Girl in the CafĂ©
    10. The Thing called Love
    11.  Jerry Maguire
    12.  Airplane
    13. Urban Cowboy
    14.  Saturday Night Fever
    15.  Grease
    16.  The Wedding Singer
    17.  Great Expectations (1998)
    18.  Goodbye Columbus
    19.  A Thousand Clowns
    20.  The Ten Commandments
    21.  Sliding Doors
    22.  One Fine Day
    23.  Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
    24.  Crossing Delancy
    25.  The Man with Two Brains
    26.  High Anxiety
    27. Elisabethtown
    28.  Housesitter
    29.  My First Mister
    30.  Splash
    31.  The Graduate
    32.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    33. History of the World, Part 1
    34. Knocked Up
    35. Drive
    36. Greenberg