My Details
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Great Britain , South East
Current Work Details
- Where I work
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I am an individual working from home
- Resources / Expertise
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I write original scripts and I am best at writing dialogues according to professional readers. I can cook for the crew! I can write French subtitles.
- Availability
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Paid Work or Collaboration
Shooters Q&A
- Films I wish I had made
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West Beyrouth, He loves me,He loves me not; Full Monty, The Piano Teacher, Il Postino, The Vanishing,Cinema Paradiso, Miracle in Milan, Osama, The Barbarian Invasions, Battle Royale, Educating Rita, Jeux Interdits, Tsotsi, Volver, London to Brighton and another hundred of them.
- I cried watching
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I cried when I was nine watching Immitation of Life with Lana Turner.A rare anti-racist film of the 50's.
- I left the cinema during
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Reservoir Dogs (sorry)
- Directors I love
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Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Patrice Leconte, Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Polanski, Joseph Losey, Sergio Leone, Tornatore, Pasolini, Bunuel, Vittorio de Sica, Almadovar, Coline Serreau, Amenabar, Michael Cimino,Ang Lee, Stanley Kubrick and hundred more
- Actors I admire
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Jody Foster, Christopher Walken,Gerard Depardieu, Isabelle Huppert,Kate Winslett, Kenneth Branagh. Jeremy Iron, Julie Walters, Morgan Freeman, Carmen Maura, Gong Li...
- Writers I respect
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I respect them all but love a lot of them.
- My desert island discs
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Shostakovich’s waltz from the Jazz suite No 1 to glide above the palm trees, Rock Around the Clock to climb the coconut trees, Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair to remind me of Yorkshire, Jean-Jacques Goldman to remind me of France, Sound of Silence to put up with it, music theme of the Magnificent Seven to keep hope,and, to give me the illusion there is a god, Bach’s cantate Jesu Joy of Man’s Desire and the Beatles' Let It Be while I am dying on the sand.
- Books I have given my friends
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The Perfum by Patrick Suskind, Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehman, Hundred Year of Solitude by G. Garcia Marquez, Le Sabotage Amoureux by Amelie Nothomb (Loving Sabotage)The Sound and the Fury by W. Faulkner, Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Tintin, Spirou and French Grammar Made Simple.
- My death row meal
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I would eat poisoned French cakes and Trogneux's chocolates so that I would die before being shot, electrocuted, hanged or beheaded.
- The best thing I own
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Without computer + bike + mobile, I would be growing cabbages in my garden.
- More about me
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I gave up teaching in schools to teach part time in a prison. I also write for the theatre and the theatre for children.
Shooting People stuff
- Joined
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29/4/2005
- Recent Bulletin Posts
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18/3/2010 Being Humane – BBC and the MA TV Scriptwriting Leicester
17/3/2010 Memorable murder films with unlikely heroes solving them
10/3/2010 Glorious 39
9/3/2010 The Army of Crime
8/3/2010 Simples!
2/3/2010 Argh the subtitles! Aaah les sous-titres!
1/3/2010 It aint what you write.......
1/3/2010 "ever hear of capital letters..."
22/2/2010 Controversy is good for the soul
12/2/2010 Familiar story...?
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