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Rochelle Smith: July 2006
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Friday, July 28, 2006. Here we go - My top ten favorite films (based on personal enjoyment):. II Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980). IV Rob Roy (1995). V It's a Wonderful Life (1946). VI Leon (aka "The Professional") (1994). VII Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (aka "Spirited Away") (2001). VIII The Little Mermaid (1989). X Monsters, Inc. (2001). The Iron Giant (1999). The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). Remains of the Day (1993).
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Rochelle Smith: May 2007
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Wednesday, May 16, 2007. Just finished reading the script for the movie FREQUENCY by Toby Emmerich. I also re-read NOTTING HILL by Richard Curtis and EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO by Guillermo del Toro. NOTTING HILL is really great but EL LABERINTO feels like it lost something, style-wise, in the translation. I'd love to read it in del Toro's native Spanish. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 3:29 PM. Tuesday, May 15, 2007. The new GROO comic is available for preorder. For those of...
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Rochelle Smith: September 2006
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Tuesday, September 26, 2006. Big B, Little b . . . This image kills me. The drawing came home in my five-year old son's folder, apparently as part of his completed classwork. I wish I drew it. So much for my pledge not to post other people's drawings . . . Posted by Rochelle Smith at 5:05 PM. That's it for 2006 . . . I recently received word from the following two screenwriting competitions:. Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition:. This letter was immediately...
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Rochelle Smith: September 2007
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Friday, September 14, 2007. This year, I'm reminded of just how subjective screenwriting competitions can be. Behold the carnage . . . The 2007 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Received the oft-discussed "top 10%" email (this means that my script finished among the top 508 out of this year's 5,050 entries). Austin Film Festival 2007. Submitted two very different scripts this year but neither advanced. The 9th Annual Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. This ...
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Rochelle Smith: August 2006
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 4:58 PM. A Different Take . . . On the tooth fairy. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 4:55 PM. My Mother's An Alien . . . A (really old) thumbnail for a film production company logo. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 4:51 PM. Well, it's official. Slamdance has announced their 2006 screenplay competition quarterfinalists and my script was not among them. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 3:56 PM. Thursday, August 24, 2006. Believe ...
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Rochelle Smith: July 2007
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Friday, July 27, 2007. Disney recently announced their pledge to ban smoking in it's films. According to the news, they are the first major studio to do so, and anti-smoking groups have applauded the decision. And in real life, people smoke. Some of the most interesting people I've known are smokers. People in my family smoke. The fact that a person smokes, or even the way. Will studios next eliminate all overweight characters from their films? While it is unfortunate...
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Rochelle Smith: November 2006
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Monday, November 13, 2006. Like Betty or Veronica, Elvis or the Beatles, Wilma Flintstone or Betty Rubble, most comic book fans my age lean towards one or the other. Nowadays, I tend to prefer a good dose of believability in my superheroes. But not back then. No sir. Maybe Marvel appealed to me because at the time, it was a much younger and hipper company than D.C. Maybe they were more in tune to the interests of my generation. I mean, my wife's dad.
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Rochelle Smith: March 2007
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Friday, March 02, 2007. Happy Birthday to You! A colossal "Happy Birthday" to Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, who along with J.R.R Tolkien, ranks right up there as one of my favorite - and most inspirational - authors. Seuss was born on March 2nd, 1904 and practically revolutionized the picture book industry with his whimsical artwork and thematic stories. As detailed in his 1959 classic, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! Posted by Rochelle Smith at 4:15 PM. View my complete profile.
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Rochelle Smith: October 2006
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Sketches, Stories and Screenwriting. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 3:45 PM. October Fun with Sharpie! I like drawing with Sharpies. It forces you to think about your line and where that line is going to go before committing it to the paper. Some of my best life drawing has been with markers but lately, I've been into these wacky little simplified masks. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 3:41 PM. Posted by Rochelle Smith at 2:19 PM. In Defense of McKee. Remember, too, that it's human na...
