Film Buffs and Writers

 

Info up to Your Eyeballs

There is so much source material out there in the netherspace.  Here are some links to it:

For the Film Buff:

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Watch a movie THIS WEEKEND

IMDB

Box Office Mojo

OF INTEREST TO WRITERS:

WEBSITE HELP FOR WRITERS

 Script Mag

Save The Cat and, related: STC Calculator

What a Script! – great stuff on dialogue.

IMSDB Internet Movie Script Data Base

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BOOKS ON SCREENPLAY WRITING

 The Screenwriter’s Bible (David Trottier) — It’s the format!

How to Build a Great Screenplay (David Howard) — Use it while thinking up the story.

Writing for Emotional Impact (Karl Iglesias) — It’s all about the Reader.

Writing Dialogue for Scripts (Rib Davis) — She said/he said.

Save the Cat (Blake Snyder) — Key guideline for structure and beats.  Check his Genre.

My Story can Beat up Your Story (Jeffrey Alan Schechter) — Third Acts have structure too.

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting (Syd Field) — A Classic, reedited. 

Script Development: a guide for outlining and revising a screenplay

 

FUN:

Movies and Calories

Movie Clips by Theme

Movie Mistakes

 

Golden Raspberry Award Foundation (Razzies)

 

OTHER:

Roger Ebert (good Twitter too)

No Film School

Whaaaat?