That Don Simpson was a very bad boy in Anchorage is not in doubt.
But he left at the requisite age to attend the University of Oregon, where he was a prize student. Although his subsequent films give no hint of this, Don was a bit of a closet intellectual.
Indeed, he would sometimes hire in call girls for the weekend so as to discuss Dostoevsky – once the formalities had been transacted.
STEFANO BOSCUTTI is an independent writer and director and ideas man.
He loves stories about true mavericks and outsiders who want to change
the world. Larger than life characters who either wildly succeed or go
down in flames. (Often both at the same time.) Boscutti's stories are
usually laced with humor and a ton of irony. Question?
Hey, you can ask him anything.
A notorious movie producer grapples with his demons as he struggles to
make a film he is proud of. Based on an award-winning screenplay. It's
a wild wide ride. Try and hang on. Available free online for a month
as we prepare for publication.
An increasingly paranoid Elvis flees Graceland on a bizarre quest to meet President Nixon before Colonel Parker hauls his ass back to Memphis. Based on a true story. (Honestly, we've got the pictures to prove it.) To be published as a serial novel online. With a new chapter each day. Text, audio and video.
All bow down to F. Scott Fitzgerald. The original story is beautiful but the film versions to date don't do it justice. Think the writer Nick Carraway is the hero of the story and Gatsby the metaphor for America?
Read the film treatment.
Do you have any idea how many news shots and stories don't make mass media because some addled-headed celebrity glitzed the paparazzi? Want to see what you missed last year? Day by day?
Amazing photographs cut to real music. View a year's worth of thought provoking slideshows.
Explore the mindset that compels a man to murder. Delve into the roles of memory, media and medication in contemporary society. With a little street justice thrown in. Arresting first independent feature inspired by both literature
and film history. Based on an ominous story by Guy de Maupassant and a seminal film by Fritz Lang. View a clip and see who played a role in bringing it to life.
Based on the classic Tao Te Ching (Book of the Way and its Virtue). Time to turn on the enlightenment. View the series of short films.