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Ishtar
(May, 1987)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (OOP)
(Ross, 1976)
The Devils
(Russell, 1974)
The Pirates of Penzance
(Papp/Leach, 1983)
The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)
-30-
(Webb, 1959)
Betrayal
(Jones, 1983)
Play It As It Lays
(Perry, 1972)
The Outfit
(Flynn, 1973)
Alex in Wonderland
(Mazursky, 1969)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
(Aldrich, 1968)
In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)
That Cold Day in the Park
(Altman, 1969)
Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)
Midas Run
(Kjellin, 1969)
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1973)
Brewster McCloud
(Altman, 1972)
Outcast of the Islands
(Reed, 1951)

Reader Submissions
1930's-1950's
The Moon's Our Home
(Seiter, 1936)
Sh! The Octopus
(McGann, 1937)
The Mating Season
(Leisen, 1951)
Bad for Each Other
(Rapper, 1953)
The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
(Fuller, 1956)
House of Secrets
(Green, 1956)
Saint Joan
(Preminger, 1957)
Macabre
(Castle, 1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(G. Douglas, 1958
Five Gates to Hell
(Clavell, 1959)
1960's
Key Witness
(Karlson, 1960)
Summer and Smoke
(Glenville, 1961)
The Chapman Report
(Cukor,1962)
Bachelor Flat
(Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu]
The L Shaped Room
(Forbes, 1963)
The Chalk Garden
(Neame, 1964)
A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
(Coppola, 1966)
The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
(Preminger, 1968)
Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
(C. Reiner, 1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary
(Williams, 1970)
The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Perry, 1970)
Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
The Music Lovers
(Russell, 1971)
Drive, He Said
(Nicholson, 1971)
The Steagle
(Sylbert, 1971)
The Last Movie
(Hopper, 1971)
Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
(Lewis, 1972)
Hickey & Boggs (OOP)
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
(Edwards, 1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Man on a Swing
(Perry, 1974)
Open Season
(Collinson, 1974)
The Tamarind Seed
(Edwards, 1974)
Law and Disorder
(Passer, 1974)
Homebodies
(Yust, 1974)
Stardust
(Apted, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(Rivette, 1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Richards, 1975
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1975)
Hearts of the West
(Zieff, 1975)
Welcome to L.A.
(Rudolph, 1976)
W.C. Fields and Me
(Hiller, 1976)
Citizens Band
(Demme, 1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
(Weill, 1978)
Movie Movie
(Donen, 1978)
The Medusa Touch
(Gold, 1978)
American Hot Wax
(Mutrux, 1978)
Hot Stuff
(DeLuise, 1979)
Scavenger Hunt
(Schultz , 1979)
Players
(Harvey, 1979)
Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
(Katselas, 1979
1980's
Resurrection
(Petrie, 1980)
The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 1983)
Trouble in Mind
(Rudolph, 1985)
When the Wind Blows
(Murikami, 1986)
Housekeeping
(Forsyth, 1987)
The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
(Schrader, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
(Spheeris, 1988)
1990's
Old Times
(Curtis, 1991)
Prospero's Books
(Greenaway, 1991)
City of Hope
(Sayles, 1991)
The Baby of Macon
(Greenaway, 1993)
King of the Hill
(Soderbergh, 1993)
Dadetown
(Hexter, 1995)
SubUrbia
(Linklater, 1997)

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Wonderful World

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Favorite Black Scripts

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My five favorite Black List titles/synopses, just by the sound and attitude of them: (a) The Beaver by Kyle Killen -- "a depressed man finds hope in a beaver puppet that he wears on his hand" (b) The Oranges by Jay Reiss & Ian Helfer -- "A man has a romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down"; (c) Fuckbuddies by Liz Meriwether -- "A guy and a girl struggle to have an exclusively sexual relationship as they both come to realize they want much more"; (d) Winter's Discontent by Paul Fruchbom -- "When Herb Winter's wife of fifty years dies, the faithful but sexually frustrated widower moves into a retirement community to start living the swinging single life" and (e) Nowhere Boy by Matt Greenhalgh -- "The story of John Lennon's rise from lonely, Liverpool teenager to iconic rock star."

If anyone has any PDFs of these, please send along.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 10, 2008 at 1:56 PM

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actionman says ...

Hey Wells -- did you notice that Foxcatcher made the list?

FOXCATCHER by E Max Frye & Dan Futterman
“Based on the true story of John du Pont, a paranoid schizophrenic who was heir to the du Pont fortune. After building a wrestling training facility named Team Foxcatcher on his Pennsylvania estate, Du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold medal-winning grappler David Schulz.”

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 2:09 PM

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actionman says ...

The Beaver sounds like Lars and the Real Girl 2. I'll pass on that one I think. Though with Steve Carrell rumored to be starring, it might be funny.

There's a lot of interesting-sounding stuff on this list.

Child 44 (which Ridley is gonna direct) sounds cool. The Low Dweller (which got a lot of early buzz) might be good in a NCFOM way. There seemed to be way too many teen sex comedies on this list. And also, as much as I love watching 'em, there's a lot of CIA/spy/real-world terrorist themed stuff that paying, regular-joe audiences will ignore.

Posted by actionman at December 10, 2008 2:12 PM

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DavidF says ...

I like that there are multiple scripts that involve a guy and girl dealing with the fact they actually love each other.

For some reason my favourite was:
KNIGHTS by Nick Confalone & Neal Dusedau
“A kickass British adventure where knighted celebrities (an entrepreneur, a soccer player, a musician, and an actor) are called upon to defend their country.”

Can we get Connery out of retirement, playing himself? I'd buy that for a dollar.

BAD TEACHER sounds week, except that it's by the guys behind The Office (and, apparently, Ghostbusters III).

Lastly, am I doing a doubletake or is there a film in there actually based on Grand Theft Auto??

Posted by DavidF at December 10, 2008 2:58 PM

comment #4

TVMCCA says ...

(c) Fuckbuddies by Liz Meriwether -- "A guy and a girl struggle to have an exclusively sexual relationship as they both come to realize they want much more

Memo to Dane Cook and Kate Hudson--contact your respective agencies.

Posted by TVMCCA at December 10, 2008 4:55 PM

comment #5

Anonymous says ...

Whoa. KNIGHTS is the exact same premise as ROUNDTABLE by Brian K. Vaughn, which was a wickedly well executed commercial idea. Only one of those fuckers is getting made, that's for sure.

Posted by Anonymous at December 10, 2008 6:44 PM

comment #6

lipranzer says ...

I would go see FUCK BUDDIES if I had a guarantee they wouldn't change the title.

Posted by lipranzer at December 10, 2008 10:21 PM

comment #7

lipranzer says ...

I would go see FUCK BUDDIES if I had a guarantee they would keep the title upon release.

Posted by lipranzer at December 10, 2008 10:24 PM

comment #8

lipranzer says ...

Apologize if this is a triple post, but I've been having problems on Internet Explorer. What I've been trying to say is: I would go see FUCK BUDDIES only if I had a guarantee they wouldn't change the title for release.

Posted by lipranzer at December 10, 2008 10:27 PM

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ZayTonday says ...

I don't know about YOU guys, but I can't WAIT for "The Untitled Channing Tatum Project". If anyone has a PDF of it I NEED to read it.

Posted by ZayTonday at December 10, 2008 11:53 PM

comment #10

ZayTonday says ...

I don't know about YOU guys, but I can't WAIT for "The Untitled Channing Tatum Project". If anyone has a PDF of it I NEED to read it.

Posted by ZayTonday at December 10, 2008 11:53 PM

comment #11

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

(c) Fuckbuddies by Liz Meriwether -- "A guy and a girl struggle to have an exclusively sexual relationship as they both come to realize they want much more

Isn't this about every modern romantic-comedy made since, say, 1996?

Posted by CitizenKanedforChewingGum at December 11, 2008 10:27 AM

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