These Are Not Movies: Screenplays for Films that Will Never Be Made is both a love letter and a cold shoulder to the cinema, praising its beauty even as it tells it to go to hell. It is eight writers forgoing all that moving-picture foolishness to make touching, shocking, hilarious movies with words alone (plus a few stills).

These are screenplays that will never be made.

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