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IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

Avoid the remake. This film is fantastic. A Cult favourite.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Parole Officer

It's okay, a nice little caper. Reminded me of an Ealing comedy. Nowhere as good though.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Daredevil

Wasn't very good to be honest. Bit lame.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Simpsons Movie

Sorry it's late, I watched it on Wednesday and been busy ever since.

AWESOME. I thought was fantastic. I was gutted when it ended. I wanted more !

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Fisher King

Great stuff. Great camera angles and very colourful. Which is best ? This or Brazil !?

Goldfinger

Got tickets to see Goldfinger in the cinema on Tuesday night. Looking forward to it.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Disclosure

Boring. Nothing happens for ages.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Good Girl

Pretty good, if a little slow. Jenny is good playing against her type.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Undercover Brother

AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Tomorrow !

I cannot wait ! Leave me reviews in the comments box when you've watched it.

David S Freeman's BEYOND STRUCTURE

Raindance presents: David S Freeman's BEYOND STRUCTURE LA's and New York's most popular screenwriting class returns to London 9:30 - 7:45pm Saturday/Sunday 23/24 September 2007

David Freeman's Beyond Structure American Beauty Parrallel Plotlines Day 1 Course Outline Day 2 Cours Outline ULTIMATE PITCHING WORKSHOP FREE CLASS Featured Article David Freeman's Beyond Structure has attained its enormous popularity because of his radical approach. Tired of theory? You won't get any here. Instead, David teaches 200 powerful screenwriting techniques you won't find anywhere else, and which you can use immediately to enhance the artistry of your scripts. (They work for novelists too!) Here's just one of the 200 PLOT DEEPENING TECHNIQUES you'll learn in Beyond Structure illustrated by American Beauty. This technique adds a feeling of emotional depth to plots. This technique is Parallel Plotlines: Find Out More More Details Here Use of Theme in Pan's Labyrinth Read a Review Book Online Here What They Are Saying "David Freeman has broken down the craft and art of screenwriting into its building blocks -- a periodic table of highly effective techniques that the masters have been using and which now anyone can learn. He can even take a difficult subject like how to add emotional layers and depth to a scene or script and show exactly how it's done. I don't think this information is available anywhere else." Gary Goldman Executive Producer and uncredited Co-Writer: MINORITY REPORT; Co-writer: TOTAL RECALL; currently writing THE END OF ETERNITY for Columbia Pictures and director Ridley Scott. "David Freeman's strategy is excellent: If you want to write like the masters of film and television, use their techniques. You can spend ten years of your life studying, compiling, and inventing those techniques, like David did -- or you could attend his weekend "BEYOND STRUCTURE" Workshop. I've tried both, but I recommend the latter." Joe Reinkemeyer Writer: LAW & ORDER; BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER; L.A. LAW. To reserve your place Call Raindance +44 (0) 207 287 3833 What They Are Saying "Using something akin to the Vulcan mind meld, David has probed into the minds of Hollywood's master writers and identified all of their techniques. But the even greater feat is how David manages to articulate thee techniques better than the masters themselves. This seminar is a must." Evan Somers Former staff writer: STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE; writer of episodes: STAR TREK: VOYAGER "When I took David's class, I had just finished a first pass at a very challenging feature adaptation I had been hired to write. In David's workshop. I found powerful techniques, clearly presented, that I could immediately use to make my characters' emotional arcs more defined and which allowed the script to operate on more profound levels. These techniques are just as applicable to my television writing. David's techniques for increasing a writer's artistry are fresh, exciting, and immensely practical." Jan Oxenburg Writer: COLD CASE, ROBBERY HOMICIDE DIVISION, Supervising Producer: THE EDUCATION OF MAX BICKFORD; Producer: ONCE AND AGAIN; Former Coproducer: CHICAGO HOPE; Recently finished writing a feature for Robert Greenwald Productions based on James Ellroy's memoir: MY DARK PLACES; Theatrical Feature: THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT; Former Executive Story Editor: NOTHING SACRED; Former Story Editor: RELATIVITY. "Although I took David Freeman's class with the intention of expanding my skills for feature film writing, I found the Story Brainstorming Techniques and the Dialogue Techniques highly applicable to the half-hour comedy writing that I do everyday. Part of my work involves creating and writing pilots, and in this regard I especially liked his "Character Diamond" Technique. It is simple to use and creates strong, identifiable characters., and I will be using it for all my pilot development from now on." Ellen Sandler Credits include: Co-executive Producer/Writer: EVERYONE LOVES RAYMOND; Producer/Writer: COACH; Creator/Co-Executive Producer: CASS (pilot starring Kathy Baker); Creator/Executive Producer: KATEY (CBS pilot starring Katey Sagal) "The exciting tools David offers have vast application for any director. His many specific techniques, from adding depth to a scene to ways of making characters more layered and dimen-sional, translate straight into the art of directing. Directors are in for a big creative boost when they take David's class." William Dear Director: ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD, HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, WILD AMERICA "What David does is unique, lucid and generous. He shows you how to sculpt, deepen, and enliven a script, and even how to have fun in writing it. He has conceptualized writing systems and tools that will empower both the veteran and novice to achieve deeper depths and higher heights in their writing. He is funny and charismatic; he's also a successful working writer. I will be using the tools he has passed on for years. " JEFFREY D. BROWN Emmy-award winning director: THE WONDER YEARS. Co-writer, co- producer, DREAM WITH THE FISHES (Sony Classics). Executive Producer, MOON (Paramount).

Greetings! Raindance is pleased to present David Freeman's Beyond Structure in London this September 23rd and 24th. Beyond Structure is the single most popular screenwriting workshop in Los Angeles and New York. It's been taken by the writers, directors, producers, stars, and key creative executives behind: Good Will Hunting, the Austin Powers films, E.R., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, The Wedding Singer, Total Recall, 12 Monkeys, Meet the Fockers, and many more. And we have a special offer until August 7th: Both the weekend class, save 20% AND benefit from 2 FREE evening classes. Read on. Parrallel Plotlines in American Beauty Wes Bentley plays Ricky Fits, the young man with the video camera. His life is paralleled by Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey): 1. Ricky begins the movie in apathy (because, we'll learn, he was put in a mental institution and drugged). When we first meet Lester, he's in apathy as well, mechanically performing his humiliating job from his little office cubicle. 3. Ricky smokes dope. Lester smokes dope. 4. Ricky quits his job. Lester quits his job. 5. Ricky is in love with a teenage girl. Lester is in love (or lust anyway) with a teenage girl. 6. Ricky is a teen. Lester acts like a teen - buying the hotrod of his teenage dreams, taking a job at a fast food restaurant, and declaring that he hates responsibility (i.e. being an adult). 7. Ricky possesses some profound spiritual insights, exemplified in his speech about seeing life and its beauty in and through all things. It's a realization he had when witnessing a plastic bag dancing in the wind. Lester repeats this exact same speech at the end of the film. 8. Both Ricky and Lester overcome their apathy. Ricky rises up from apathy to anger (and finally leaves his father). Lester rises all the way up to true spiritual serenity (which takes place right before he dies, and continues to expand afterward.) Parallel Plotlines is only one of over 50 ways to give emotional depth to a plot. By the way, it's worth noting that Ricky, when he gives his "beauty" speech (about the plastic bag), has not attained true spiritual serenity at that point, although he (and at first, we) believe he has. His Zen-like serenity if fake, covering his apathy. After all, Zen masters don't sell drugs, they don't allow themselves to be beaten to a pulp by their fathers, they don't insist on staying detached from the world (viewing everything though a camera), and they don't get fascinated by death and speak about it frequently. Having a false emotion (here, serenity) covering a real emotion (in this case, apathy), gives depth to a character. It's what David calls a Character Deepening Technique. In Beyond Structure, you'll learn dozens of others to enrich your characters. Imagine two days jam-packed with techniques like the above, and not just for adding depth and uniqueness to characters and plots, but to scenes and dialogue as well. Stir in lots of film clips, add some some chances to master the techniques by practising them in class, and then season the mix with David's warmth and humour, and you've got the magic which is Beyond Structure. If you find it useful to learn techniques like the above, you might enjoy poking around David's home website - and reading the many illuminating articles there. They're packed with valuable techniques. David only comes to teach in London once a year. Don't miss this rare opportunity to vastly enhance your artistic palette and inspiration as you learn from the best of the best. Your writing will never be the same. Read an article on THEME IN PAN'S LABYRINTH Day 1 Course Outline Saturday Sept 23 9:30am - 7:45pm 100 Techniques For Making Characters and Dialogue Stand Out Learn and practice techniques to: Create Riveting, 3-Dimensional Characters - 10 techniques for crafting unique, psychologically complex characters. - 38 kinds of character growth for heroes. - 36 ways to make leading characters likable without making them bland. - How to create characters who aren't limited to real people you've met. - 25 types of character quirks and eccentricities. - 37 techniques for giving characters depth. - 11 ways to show character development in stages. - Techniques to create interesting villains. Write Luminous Dialogue - How to give each character a distinctive voice. - 5 ways to express a character's dimensionality in dialogue. - 14 techniques to capture the rhythm and sound of conversation. - 4 ways to inject depth or subtext into dialogue. - Advanced Dialogue Techniques. - The ultimate dialogue challenge. - 6 techniques for revealing ambivalence in dialogue. Day 2 Course Outline Sunday Sept 24 9:30am - 6pm 100 Techniques For Creating Compelling Plots and Scenes And How to Write or Develop What Sells. Learn and practice techniques to: Invent Great Premises - 8 techniques for generating fresh story ideas. - 11 ways of modifying ideas to develop radically alternative story-lines. Develop These Premises Into Imaginative Plots - 70 types of plot twists. - 35 possible objectives for your hero. Using plot to shape characters emotional growth, - 5 additional ways to relate character growth to the plot. Learn the most efficient way to brainstorm a story from beginning to end. - Create Memorable Scenes Scene Sculpting - Ways to make scenes interesting and emotionally layered. The Marketplace Guidelines for Hollywood vs. independent films. Learn to use the brainstorming computer to improve your pitches. Ultimate Pitching Skills Workshop FREE CLASS On the evening of Thursday, Septemder 21st from 6:30 - 9pm, David Freeman is hosting a pitching skills workshop at Raindance. In it he will demonstrate, using students' pitches, how to rearrange the story and pitch it in order to close a deal. It's only £9.99 and is not advertised anywhere else. To book, you need to call Raindance on 0207 287 3833. This class is FREE to members of Raindance, and to anyone attending the weekend Beyond Structure. Writing Unforgettable Characters and Scenes Tuesday September 18, 7pm - 9pm Central London £10 (free to Raindance members or if you book Dave's Beyond Structure masterclass) Yet another free evening class if you book onto the Beyond Structure masterclass. Attend this intensive, high-impact class for a dozen specific techniques to markedly improve your characters and scenes. Filmmaking needn't be expensive, or cluttered with mystique. Let David Freeman give you the information you need to launch your career. Happy Filmmaking, Will Pearce Raindance Festivals Limited email: info@raindance.co.uk phone: +44 (0) 207 287 3833 web: http://www.raindancefilmfestival.org

Discounts - Ask about our special repeater fee (-50%) if you have taken this course before and would like a refresher - Ask about our Group Booking discount for 3+ students - Members of Raindance get a 15% discount. - Students, OAP's and UB40's 10% discount
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About David Freeman

Working as a writer and producer, David Freeman has written and developed scripts and other properties which have been bought or optioned by Columbia Pictures, MGM, Paramount, Castle Rock, Buena Vista Television, Atlas Entertainment, Hearst Entertainment, and many other major film and television production companies. He's a long-standing member of the Writers Guild of America. The workshop has been taken by Writers, Directors, Producers, Stars, and Key Creative Executives behind: Minority Report, Good Will Hunting, The Fugitive, E.R., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Simpsons, The X-Files, Total Recall, Face/Off, 12 Monkeys, King of the Hill

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IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Garden State

Really wanted to love this film. Felt a bit empty and was a bit slow too. It's good though.

Lottie B and LocateTV

Lottie B is my new friend. So, who is Lottie B ?
Well Lottie B is one of the lovely people who have set LocateTV.

At moment it's being trialled, so there isn't much to me as yet.
We all hope it to be the Google of TV and film.  It's a nice and simple, slick site that lets you
search for when programmes/films are showing on TV, online and DVD.
It will be constantly updated and region specific, with a host of other features in the pipeline
that'll let you customise it without losing its essential clarity.

Keep yourself updated at their lovely blog.

This all sounds fantastic and I cannot wait. Ill you more news when I get my hands on it.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Transformers

I think this might be Michael Bay's best film. Great effects. I love Optimus Prime.

The Simpsons Movie Special on Sky One

It'll be on again pretty soon. It's okay. It shows new clips from the film, and interviews from the folks involved.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Knocked Up

Right, I was at a mates' house and they were watching a hooky copy of this film.
The film is pretty funny. Very smart comedy. I'll see it again on the big screen.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Airplane 2

More of the same gags and setups. It's just not as good. Shame really.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Short Circuit 2

Not as good as the first one, but that wasn't that great. The scene where Johnny 5 gets battered can scare little kids, believe me.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Mars Attacks !

Crazy, insane fun from Burton. Awesome ensemble cast. Relentless Martians !

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Dodgeball

I love this film. Stupid, stupid fun. We need more comedies like this. Ones that make me laugh.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Dial M For Murder

Hitchcock's classic. A simple, good ol' murder mystery. Grace Kelly is stunning.

This Wednesday

Yes ! I have my tickets for The Simpsons Movie for this Wednesday. To celebrate, I have stuck these images I have been sent. They are from this month's Unlimited Magazine from Cineworld.

Credit Simpsons

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Rene Russo is very attractive. Is this as good as the original ...?

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Shining

Still visually stunning. Lush slow cameras. Better than Clockwork Orange.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix - GUEST REVIEW

This is special. We have a evelovesporkchops fan. Her name is Lottie B. I will explain who she is a little later. She's sent me her IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW for Harry's latest caper -

The darkest yet.  Again.  Is the last film going to be so dark we won't actually be able to
see any of the by-then-20 year old cast ?
Thank you Lottie.  I love you.  And yes, after the weekend (hopefully) I will watch and review
"The Beat That My Heart Skipped".  Just for you.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Curtis Hanson is a genius. This film is very underrated. This, and Polanski's Frantic are the closest we have to Hitchcock.

Homer

26th July over here actually ...

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IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - The Green Mile

Really good. Not as great as the previous film mind ...

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Bulletproof Monk

What was this film about ? I wasn't really watching it. Couldn't have been that good then.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

I enjoyed this. The first time I saw this, I did not expect the ending.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Small Soliders

Good fun. Effects still looks pretty good, as does Ms. Dunst.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - K9

Rubbish. If I had to choose, Turner & Hooch wins every time.

Facebook film ick

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IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Frantic

Hitchcockian film by Polanski. Works really well. Great film. Go rent.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Deuce Bigalow ; Male Gigolo

Brash comedy. It's not the world's greatest film ever made.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Hostel Part II

Not sure if this photo is from the film. The film was okay.

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IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Election

Clever film. Really enjoyed watching this whenever it's on TV.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Batman

Still the best out of all the Batman films. Very dark. Tim Burton did well.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - My Best Friend's Wedding

Utter utter rubbish. Crap. Julia Roberts looks good though.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Monster

Awesome, brutal, fantastic, amazing. I say - GO WATCH THIS FILM.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Get Over It

Dunst is lush in this film. Lazy Shakespeare re-hash. Watchable though.

IN DEPTH FILM REVIEW - Driven

Clunky editing. Pretty lame film all in all. I would avoid this at most costs.