Larry Cohen Some call him the phantom physician, or the medical marvel. He is a masked vigilante who not only captures criminals, but “cures“ them as well. The police consider him an outlaw. Medical science brands him a charlatan. But he alone has developed the miracle laser beam that can rechannel brain waves and make…
David Robinson The Freak is the legendary Charlie Chaplin’s last, and perhaps most mysterious, film project — an ambitious tale that came within a hair’s breadth of being made. Conceived in 1968, when Chaplin was nearly eighty, the story centers on Sarapha, a young woman with wings, both miraculous and vulnerable, who becomes a mirror…
Preston Sturges Introductions by Jay Rozgonyi.Foreword by Tom Sturges. O Brother, What Might Have Been opens a hidden door into the creative world of Preston Sturges, one of the great originals of American cinema, the trailblazing writer-director whose comedies The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels and The Palm Beach Story brought a new sophistication to Hollywood…
David Mamet Long buried and never before published, Russian Poland may be David Mamet’s most enigmatic and haunting creation—a cinematic ghost story finally brought to light. Written in 1993, this dreamlike screenplay fuses classic suspense with mystical storytelling and political urgency, its stories-within-stories hovering between farce and prophecy, tragedy and grace, illuminated in the flickering…
Brian De Palma Buried for decades. Now, Brian De Palma’s wildest vision comes to life. Written in the 1990s between Carlito’s Way and Mission:Impossible, visionary filmmaker Brian De Palma’s Ambrose Chapel is his most overtly comic thriller — a wild, unproduced “screwball noir” that spins through kidnapping, virtual reality, mind control, murder, terrorists, romance, dream…
Guillermo Arriaga Escrita por Guillermo Arriaga, autor de Amores perros, 21 Gramos y Babel, A Cielo Abierto es un desgarrador viaje de iniciación que se desarrolla en los áridos paisajes de México en los años 90. Dos años después de que Salvador, de 12 años, sobreviva a un accidente que le cuesta la vida a…
Guillermo Arriaga Written by Guillermo Arriaga, author of Amores perros, 21 Grams and Babel, Upon Open Sky is a searing coming-of-age road trip that unfolds against the arid landscapes of 1990s Mexico. Two years after 12-year-old Salvador survives a crash that kills his father, his older brother Fernando plans a reckless journey north to confront…
Bruce Joel Rubin For every screenplay that becomes a movie, there are hundreds of spec scripts that never see the light of day. Even Oscar-winning screenwriters have their share. In a Hollywood career spanning four decades, Bruce Joel Rubin originated the films Ghost, Jacob’s Ladder and Brainstorm. But those celebrated works are not the only…
Werner Herzog Written more than thirty years ago, Werner Herzog’s Mexico screenplay — an epic, stylized dramatisation of the conquest of the Aztec empire by Hernán Cortes and his army in 1521 — is destined to remain unfilmed. But now it can be read. An essential companion piece to the filmmaker’s earlier, celebrated South American…