Category: Uncategorized
-
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes was on tv yesterday – I never get tired of watching that film – sublime. Other news : still not entirely convinced this is real yet…. maybe if I type it, it’ll disappear in a puff of smoke and I will know it was only a (Red Shoes-type) dream…. I’m going to…
-
Ready to Meet the World…… maybe
I’ve been getting ready to workshop my feature comedy this Friday, and it got me thinking about that old adage about writers feeling precious about their work. Nobody likes to get told their work isn’t up to scratch, but as long as the comments are constructive, I generally don’t feel the burn when anyone says…
-
Ballerina Ballroom
Frankly this all sounded too delicious to be true…… but it is. Links at the end of the info : “A while ago, on an impulse, a quixotic seizure, Tilda Swinton rented a ballroom in an old Victorian stone building in Nairn in the North East of Scotland, a seaside town where Chaplin used to…
-
Sharps
Just got an email from fellow MA classmate Ronnie. As previously mentioned, he’d got through to the first stage of the BBC Writers Room ‘Sharps’ competition, swished off to a workshop in London and then had to draft a quick short piece for consideration. He’s just found out that he’s through to the final 8…
-
Unbeautiful
“The first question I ask when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there is no reason.” John Cage
-
Keep Those Wagons Rolling
You know when you’ve done a really awkward interview and you told the panel you were writing a Western… when you’re not in fact writing a Western…..
-
Filth and Mince
So the EIFF has ended. This was my first whole film festival as a delegate (last years was a part-time affair), and I’m proud to say I made it through the entire couple of weeks without a whole day off. Frankly my brain was mince by the time it ended, but it was glorious, damp…
-
And I would walk 500 miles…
EIFF up-date : saw Death Defying Acts, A Film With Me In It, Brian Cox Q&A, Shane Meadows Q&A, various Happy Hours (Team WA won the Delegate Pub Quiz which netted us some Marx Brothers dvds), couple of parties – one of which had an experimental slide show (very Woodstock) and a magic igloo –…
-
EIFF update
Too knackered to report much on today but you MUST go to see Terence Davies’ ‘Of Time and the City’ – it’s beautiful and poetic and I shed a tear even though the man beside me smelled of chips, threw a delegate pass at me (unintentionally), fiddled EXTENSIVELY with his mobile (with the LIGHT ON…
-
And they’re off…… EIFF
Brief and to the point as I’m expending ALL energy (ok not all – some is kept aside for breathing and laughing, but just a tiny bit) on the EIFF (or Edinburgh International Film Festival to give it its full title) which started officially today. Picked up my delegate pass (which to my delight is…
mandy lee 