"Do you know what it’s like to fuck a shell?” If you’re anything like us, you sometimes wonder about the things that must happen in film school that lead to some of those films we see from film school. So NYU filmmaker Ricky D’Ambrose deserves a lot of credit for laying bare the creative process in this hilarious, touching documentary that follows two young students over the course of one evening as they struggle over the first draft of their script. It starts off as a vérité look into collaboration, then turns into a drunken, Cassavetes-style meltdown (which, being film students, they’re the first to acknowledge), but finally winds up being a surprisingly moving portrait of friendship. It also kind of makes us want to see the film they’re working on, succinct sex scenes and all. —Bilge Ebiri