Noah Buschel _best_

He lived above a shuttered storefront that sold typewriter ribbon and mystery in equal measure. The windows were smudged with fingerprints from other people’s longings. Inside, his apartment was small and precise: a battered upright piano pushed against a wall of books, a scattering of vinyl records, a teetering stack of notebooks, and one lamp that burned like a private lighthouse. He’d learned to draft scenes on paper first, then test them against the world.

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Sparrows Dance (2012) An intimate two-hander about an agoraphobic actress and the plumber who enters her life. The film was made on a micro-budget of $175,000 and won Best Narrative Feature at the 2012 Austin Film Festival. He lived above a shuttered storefront that sold

When he was six years old, Buschel came down with a severe case of chicken pox. He spent an entire week stuck on the couch with his cat, drinking iced tea and drifting in and out of sleep while Cinemax played on a nearly constant loop. In his feverish state, the image of Marlon Brando’s face felt like it was "hypnotized" into his brain. He describes this experience as the moment filmmaking became "ingrained in his marrow," leading him to skip a traditional film education and start writing scripts by age 19. He’d learned to draft scenes on paper first,

Glass Chin (2014) A gritty boxing noir starring Corey Stoll as a washed-up pugilist entangled with a charismatic gangster played by Billy Crudup. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was praised for its stylized aesthetic.