I guess I'm in a period of thinking about film and filmmaking. I made a feature last year, it's called LOVE LIVE LONG but everything about the film was far removed from the what cinema has become. I did it because somebody asked me to do something filmic around the theme of a car rally. I had no interest in the car rally but they persisted and so I said I would make a film in Istanbul, that being one of the places the rally would pass through. So I set off for Istanbul with 2 actors and 2 crew and a couple of peli cases filled with digi things. The script was a one page treatment. We were all quite excited. Things went horribly wrong on the rally and we adjusted our small story accordingly. At the time I was not sure whether the finished thing would be a docu or a fiction. In fact it is a bit of both. 

I think it worked reasonably well and I guess all those years of practicing on bigger films paid off to the extent that I more or less know how to make a film now and how the edit works and how the music can help etc. 

Aside from that I have read lots of scripts and written a couple for other people. The ones I read were not interesting and the ones I wrote all ended up in studio type confrontations. Executives who had big ideas about character and plot and particularly the 3rd act. 

I've been revisiting a lot of films I saw when I was in my 20's and found to my relief that most of them held up pretty well. So I've started a review journal and each time I watch a film now I write something about it. I find it has been really helpful to me in my attempt to understand what is going wrong with cinema, particularly mainstream cinema. I will get it this deeper later but the main thing that strikes me is this - 

Plot has killed script. Back in the day plot was a slightly sketchy framework for character development. The scripts I read now, the characters are there to supply the plot. It's all to do with a misguided idea that the function of cinema is somehow to be realistic. I think the function of cinema is to be poetic and magic and original.