September: Classic 70s Movie Month
In December 2013, we had a series called Classic 80s Movies Month in which I invited readers to select noteworthy movies from the decade of the eighties and provide a condensed overview of it. That resulted in this: A list of links to movies you should know about. Then in May 2014, we did the same thing for 90s movies. Here is a link to that archive.
Those series went so well, I thought why not do this for more decades? Over time, we will aggregate a decade by decade resource I can point people to who know they need to watch movies, but might not have an idea which ones.
So what if we make September: Classic 70s Movie Month? That’s what I proposed in this post earlier this week.
I’m looking for 22 volunteers to write guest posts to go live Monday through Friday in September, each entry featuring a 70s movie you think screenwriters should know about and hopefully at some point watch. If more people volunteer, then we can expand the series into 30 posts.
Here is a template you can use for your guest post:
Movie Title
Year
Writers (screenwriters and any authors whose books were used as the basis for adaptation)
Lead Actors (Just the main ones)
Director
IMDB Plot Summary (You can find that directly under the Your Rating box. If you don’t feel the summary does the story justice, feel free to write up a logline of your own.)
Why I Think This Is A Classic 70s Movie (Feel free to write as much as you’d like up to a half-page or so.)
My Favorite Moment In The Movie
My Favorite Dialogue In the Movie (IMDB has a Quotes section for almost every movie, so you can find key dialogue in your movie’s site.)
Key Things You Should Look For When Watching This Movie
Please use this exact template to help me in the editing process.
If you can find a YouTube clip from the film or its trailer, please include that URL.
When you are done with your guest post, you may simply copy and paste the content into an email to me or create a Word document and attach it to an email.
I will run the posts in the order I receive them.
If you are interested in doing a guest post, please indicate in Comments or send me an email with the movie you would like to cover.
Here’s your chance to feature a personal favorite from the decade of the 70s. And for every contributor, I will send a special gust of creative juju your way.
If you need to look at some examples of posts, go here and here, and click on any link.
UPDATE: Once again, the GITS community responds! We have 30 volunteers. Please get your guest posts to me by September 4 for scheduling purposes. For those with a time crunch, let’s set a second target date: September 10.
Here is the list of wonderful writers and the great 70s movie each has chosen to write about. I have put in bold those who have already sent their guest post to me.
A2Jason: Taxi Driver
Rob Bell: The Friends of Eddie Coyle
chriscaleo: Being There
cilly247: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
cschillig: The Exorcist or Halloween
Markham Cook: Jaws
Eric Rodriguez: Logan’s Run
Ryan Gilmore: The Godfather, Part I and Part II
pgronk: Chinatown
John Henderson: Smokey and the Bandit
Steve Huerta: The Getaway
Jacob Holmes-Brown: Alien
Zach Jansen: Dog Day Afternoon
Will King: Colossus: The Forbin Project
LateNightDoom: What’s Up, Doc?
Lynn: Carrie
mafatty79: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
maveric1974: Apocalypse Now
Karla McNeese: Murder by Death
Debbie Moon: Three Days of the Condor
N D: Network
Daryl Powell: Rocky
Jon Raymond: The Conversation
Greg Scharpf: Shampoo
Arnaud Talaia: All the President’s Men
Barbara Thomas: Young Frankenstein
rich_trenholm: The Man With a Golden Gun
Michael Waters: The Sting
Thomas Wüstemann: Harold and Maude
Turk187: Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Bretton Zinger: Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope
If there is a 70s movie you don’t see listed here you think deserves to be in our archives as a resource to others and you have a strong desire to write about it, I’m happy to include additional posts in the series. Email me with your suggestions.
If you have already volunteered, please try to email your posts to me by September 4. And again, let’s target a second drop date for those who need additional time: September 10. Thanks!
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