A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, author and educator. He is the former President of the Writers Guild of America, West; professor and former chair of the writing division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts; and an artistic director of the Sundance Institute Screenwriting Labs.
Author:
2000 Takedown
Executive Producer:
2000 Takedown
2007 Savage Grace
2008 August
Screenplay:
1968 Coogan's Bluff
2000 Takedown
2007 Savage Grace
2008 August
Writer:
1968 Coogan's Bluff
1973 Such Dust as Dreams Are Made On
2000 Joe Gould's Secret
2000 Takedown
2007 Savage Grace
2008 August
Director:
1997 The Hunger
Staff Writer:
1997 The Hunger
2023 The Idol
Teleplay:
1993 Fallen Angels
1997 The Hunger
2023 The Idol
Writer:
1993 Fallen Angels
1997 The Hunger
2023 The Idol
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.