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    “Getaway Car” Playlist

    Whenever I work on a screenplay I put together a playlist of songs that suggest the mood of the film. They aren't necessarily songs I hope wind up on the soundtrack if the film ever gets made but playing them while I write helps to maintain the tone I'm looking for in the story. After finishing a TV Pilot that took me forever to finish I'm now back to work on a bank heist film I've been thinking about for years. "Getaway Car" began with an idea about a...

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    Tribeca Film Festival 2025: Narrative Features

    Even with access to both the theater press screenings and Tribeca at Home app (for remote access), it was all I could do to...

    Uber-horror indie film “Self Driver” Streaming Friday, June 6

    The plight of those working in the delivery/driver economy has been in the news a lot. E-bikes going at high speeds causing fatal car...

    “The Cinema Within” Streaming & DVD May 20

    We were told in Film History 101 that spectators who first saw the Lumière brothers' 1896 film of a train rushing forward ("Arrival of...

    “The Old Woman with a Knife” opens May 16

    Someone once said that death is a punctuation mark in our lives we don't control. (Unless we commit suicide.) Serial murderers and assassins insert...

    Horror-Noir “A Desert” at Roxy Cinema May 9

    Many years ago I drove through part of the American desert: Death Valley in California, then Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Texas. Joshua...

    “Invention” at Metrograph In Theater April 18

    "Invention," an indie film combining real footage and fictional narrative to create a unique, mysterious and lightly comical meta-portrait of a woman's grief over...

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