Greg Beer

@gbeer.bsky.social

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Screenwriter working across drama and documentary, TV and film. Credits include Madiba (BET), The Dictator’s Playbook (PBS), Age of Samurai (Netflix), Optimist's Guide to the Planet (Bloomberg) Mayday (Nat Geo)

Janice Rule and Burt Lancaster talking poolside in swimsuits in a scene from The Swimmer (1968)
A scene from Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)
Nathalie Baye in a scene from Day for Night (1973, Truffaut). The line she speaks: “i’d drop a guy for a film. I’d never drop a film for a guy!”
Poster for the WW2 movie Devil’s Brigade starring William Holden and Cliff Robertson
Mike Myers as Goldmember (2002)
Bürgermeister meisterburger from Santa Claus is Comin to Town (1970)
Mike Morgan and Alec Guinness in a scene from The Horse's Mouth (1958, dir. Ronald Neame, screenplay, Alec Guinness)
Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont in Duck Soup (1933)
Another great black cat
Joan Crawford and Ann Blyth in a scene from Mildred Pierce (1945, Michael Curtiz)
A man stands on a red dirt road cut through golden fields of wheat in a scene from Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Poster for ma nuit chez maud a film by Eric Rohmer
George C Scott in Hardcore (1979, Schrader)
A boy watches as his teacher opens a book he's just given him. Brian Smith and Michael Redgrave in a scene from The Browning Version(1951, Asquith)
David Niven and Alec Guinness
A bearded man stands behind an older woman in a doorway, they both have a slight smile on their faces - Armando (Wagner Moura) and Dona Sebastiana (Tania Maria) in a scene from The Secret Agent (2025, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
a black and white photo of actor Philippe Noiret and director Bertrand Tavernier, both men in profile
A close up portrait of a smiling Gregory La Cava, film director of the Hollywood Golden Age
portrait of Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda
Book cover for David Niven’s memoirs, The Moons a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses
Poster for nirvanna the band the show the movie (2025, Matt Johnson). Two guys on a giant electric cord hovering high over the Toronto skyline.
Richard Frank as Father Vogler listening to Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) in a scene from the film Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman)
poster for Fredrick Wiseman's 1983 documentary, The Store. The title appears over shelves of high heel shoes in a department store.
Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick in Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Photograph portrait of the great French film director, Francois Truffaut
a scene from the film "Between The Lines" by Joan Micklin Silver. Several journalists crowd around a table during an editorial meeting
Catherine O’Hara
A lifeless Luke peers out of Darth Vader‘s broken helmet in Empire strikes back (1980)
John Hurt as John Merrick in a scene from the Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)
the POV of a man, floating in mid-air, tethered to the ground by a rope: the opening scene of Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963)
Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty as Earl Camembert and Floyd Robertson, SCTV
Michael and Kay Christmas shopping in The Godfather (1972, Coppola)
Judy Garland and Margaret O’Brien performing in a scene from Meet me in St Louis (1944, Vincente Minnelli)
Jean Marais, eyes closed, in a scene from Orpheus (1950, Cocteau)
Original French poster for the Eric Rohmer film My Night at Maud’s
Kip, Napoleon and Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamie
The coroner and Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
Richard Farnsworth in a scene from The Straight Story (1999, David Lynch)
Scene from Lars Von Trier’s Europa (1991)
Poster for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with Alec Guinness
Poster for the 1969 Eric Rohmer film, Ma Nuit Chez Maud
Josh Brolin, as Eddie Mannix, seated at his desk in a scene from Hail Caesar!
Album cover for Joni Mitchell’s Blue
Black cat relaxing in a chair
The final shot of Truffaut’s 400 Blows
Diane Keaton in Interiors (1978)
Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina in Alphaville (Godard 1965)
Image for the movie Glory Enough for All (1988), starring R.H. Thomson and John Woodvine.
Original French poster for the Bertrand Tavernier film, L'Horloger de Saint Paul (The Clockmaker of St Paul) starring Philippe Noiret
a portrait of the English filmmaker Michael Powell