#from the archives
3.01 The Magnificent Seven
Casting Sides for Isaac:
3.01 The Magnificent Seven Isaac.pdf
Casting Sides for Walter Rosen:
3.01 The Magnificent Seven Walter.pdf
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2.21 All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One
AHBL: Part One Script (Blue Collated):
02.21 All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 Blue.pdf
Casting Sides for Jake Talley:
Casting Sides for Lily:
*You can see all of the other scripts we have here. If you hit the Slideshare viewing limit, Google → slideshare ngelmat. To buy scripts we need donations, and the more people are involved the smaller the hit everyone takes. To help with this, we have set up a discord server. It is a fandom neutral zone so as many people as possible feel comfortable joining. Since the supply in eBay sellers’ inventories has dried up, we are also looking for folks willing to share PDFs (phone app PDFs are fine, e.g. Genius Scan) of scripts from their personal collections.
Gregory Nava’s El Norte will be rereleased theatrically for the first time since its original run 35 years ago. Thanks to a brand new restoration conducted by the Academy Film Archive and the Getty Foundation, audiences can see it in theaters on September 15—the first day of Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month, which coincides with the independence days of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Mexico.
Directed by Nava from a screenplay co-written by Anna Thomas, El Norte tells the story of two indigenous siblings who flee from persecution in their native Guatemala to follow the promise of a better life in the United States. Together Nava and Thomas attended the inaugural 1981 Directors Lab as part of a cohort of filmmakers invited by Robert Redford to develop their screenplays with the newly founded Sundance Institute. At the heart of El Norte is what Redford calls “the pursuit of a sense of place”—a struggle that resonates as deeply today as it did 35 years ago.
To learn more about El Norte, check out this interview with Gregory Navaandthis essay by Héctor Tobar.
Photos: 1. Film still courtesy of El Norte ; 2. Creative Advisor Waldo Salt and El Norte filmmakers Anna Thomas and Gregory Nava. © 1981 Sharon M. Beard
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#throwback thursday:
Director Kathryn Bigelow and actor Jamie Lee Curtis attend the 1990 Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of their thriller Blue Steel.
© 1990 Sandria Miller
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If you’re keeping up with all the new releases from the Sundance Film Festival, you’ve got your work cut out for you in August. With 17 films coming to theaters and streaming platforms (including a host of award winners), you could watch one every other day for the entire month, and then some. After the Wedding, featuring stars like Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore, is just one of them.
Film still courtesy of After the Wedding
Isabel (Michelle Williams) has dedicated her life to working with the children in an orphanage in Calcutta. Theresa (Julianne Moore) is the multimillionaire head of a media company who lives with her handsome artist husband (Billy Crudup) and their two adorable twin boys in New York. When word comes to Isabel of a mysterious and generous grant for the financially struggling orphanage, she must travel to New York to meet the benefactor—Theresa—in person. And when Isabel is spontaneously invited to Theresa’s daughter’s wedding, Isabel discovers a connection to Theresa that takes her on an unexpected journey into her own past. Based on the Academy Award–nominated film by Susanne Bier.
© 2002 L. Busacca/WireImage
Directed by Bart Fruendlich, After the Wedding isn’t the first we’ve seen of power duo Fruendlich and Moore. The two first met on the set of The Myth of Fingerprints, which premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival, then a few years later with World Travelerat the 2002 Sundance Film Festival (seen above celebrating Fruendlich’s 27th birthday). They married shortly after in 2003 and have been together ever since, acting and directing side by side.
SeeAfter the Wedding playing in select theaters now and more Sundance Film Festival releases here.
Today marks 10 years—or 3652 days—since 500 Days of Summer made its theatrical debut. Prior to the release, the film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and is notable as director Marc Webb’s first feature film.
Earlier this year, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt sat down with Entertainment Weekly to rewatch and revisit the film in real time. You can read their commentary here.
Above: Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel attending the 500 Days of Summer premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. © 2009 George Pimentel/WireImage
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Short Film Spotlight: Record/Play
War, fate, and a broken walkman transcend space and time in this sci-fi love story.
TheWalkman turns 40 this week and to celebrate the beauty of analog, please enjoy Jesse Atlas’s 2013 Sundance Film Festival short, Record/Play.
Poster courtesy of Record/Play
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It’sGo Skateboarding Day, and what better way to celebrate than to highlight films throughout Sundance Film Festival history that feature skateboarding.
Founded in 2004 by Don Brown and the International Association of Skateboard Companies in California, the holiday gives skateboarders an opportunity to get outside and practice the sport with the help of participating cities worldwide.
Here are just a few films that capture the creativity, passion, drive, and so much more that skateboarding can ignite.
(Above) 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Hala dir. by Minhal Baig
Hala is her father’s pride and joy. Dutiful and academically gifted, she skillfully navigates both her social life as a teen in Chicago and her obligations as an only child to Pakistani immigrants. When she meets Jesse, a classmate who shares her love for poetry and skateboarding, their romance is complicated by her Muslim faith and a father who is prepared to arrange her marriage according to their family’s cultural tradition. As Hala begins to challenge these customs, her parents’ own lives start to unravel, testing the power of Hala’s flourishing voice.
2018 Sundance Film Festival, Skate Kitchen dir. by Crystal Moselle
Introverted 18-year-old skateboarder Camille lives on Long Island with her single mother. After a startling injury, she promises her mother she’ll hang up her board, but the pull to skate is too strong. On Instagram she discovers “The Skate Kitchen,” a subculture of girls whose lives revolve around skating, and bravely seeks them out… Skate Kitchen precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
2001 Sundance Film Festival, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography dir. by Stacy Peralta
Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take a walk down any street in any town, and you are destined to see someone riding a skateboard. Well, it wasn’t always like that. In the early ’80s, skateboarding was fading away until Stacy Peralta brought a profoundly talented group of outsiders together and dubbed them the Bones Brigade. This documentary chronicles their epic rise, using awesome archival footage and moving first-person accounts from Brigade members Steve Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, and Rodney Mullen, among others.
1999 Sundance Film Festival, Dogtown and Z-Boys dir. by Stacy Peralta
Skateboarding has crossed over into the mainstream population due in large part to the humble beginnings of a group of eight teenagers in an area of Santa Monica called Dogtown. It was there that this mismatched gang of kids from broken homes formed a group known as the Zephyr Team aka Z-Boys… Reuniting the original crew 25 years later enables us to hear in their own words what it was like before x-treme sports existed.
All film stills courtesy of respective film titles.
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A brief history of Parker Posey’s (aka “The Queen of the Indies”) Sundance career in film posters
SubUrbia, 1997 Sundance Festival
Directed by Richard Linklater and written by Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia is an extraordinary blend of the disparate visions of two celebrated observers of pop culture and disaffected youth… SubUrbia seduces you with a cinematic style that captures the dark heart of middle America.
Frisk, 1996 Sundance Film Festival
Frisk is the much-anticipated adaptation of Dennis Cooper’s infamous novel about homosexuality, sadism, and insanity. Ironically, Dennis is also the name of the main character, whose lead we follow on this path between what is real and what we can only hope is surreal.
Broken English,2007 Sundance Film Festival
Nora isn’t broken; she just acts that way. She is actually sexy, funny, and creative, and her only fault is being cursed with that modern affliction of wanting more out of life than what others want for her. She must suffer quietly her best friend’s “perfect marriage,” a job she has outgrown, and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all.
Fay Grim,2007 Sundance Film Festival
Eight years have passed since the infamous Henry Fool fled the country, abandoning his wife, Fay Grim, and their son, Ned. Played to Hartley-esque perfection by Parker Posey, Fay is falling to pieces. Ned is being expelled from school, and Fay’s brother, Simon (James Urbaniak), the reviled garbageman/poet, is serving a 10-year sentence for aiding Henry’s escape.
Spring Breakdown,2009 Sundance Film Festival
An outlandish, quick-witted romp that jubilantly leaves none immune to ridicule, Spring Breakdown chews up our geeky gals and spits them out as triumphant powerhouses—confident that being who they truly are is way cooler than fitting in.
Grab,2011 Sundance Film Festival
Each year residents of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico honor individual family members by throwing food and gifts from the rooftops of their homes to the community that gathers below. Billy Luther’s film follows three families as they prepare for this ancient tradition, which has taken many modern twists.
Columbus, 2017 Sundance Film Festival
While his father is in a coma, Jin finds himself stuck in an unusual Midwestern city renowned for its modernist buildings. Though not fond of architecture, Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a bright girl who works at the city library (avoiding college and her future), and she shows him the local marvels.
-All film posters courtesy of respective film titles-
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“The experiment was a success: protomatter exists.”
Written and directed by Chema García Ibarra,Protoparticles premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in the International Short Films category and took home an Honorable Mention. On today’s Film Poster Friday, we’re highlighting the unique and adorably cross-stitched film poster for Protoparticles. Check out the full short below!
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This is the cover and inside page of “The Pilot”, a yearbook from Knox County, Texas, published in 1928
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It’s…Artifact Friday!
Featuring this here toy chuckwagon. Just detailed enough to have a frying pan, but not enough to pose the horses in motion.
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Courtesy of our well-traveled field rep who recently visited Pecos County’s Hayter Ranch, this is the stone marker that lets you know you’re still on the correct road. When you’re trying to find your way around out there, there are seriously almost no other landmarks. Except this, and one old cow skull at the first fork in the road.
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