January: Classic 60s 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 last September, we did the 70s. You can check out those archived posts here.
Let’s make January 60s Movies Month.
I’m looking for 22 volunteers to write guest posts to go live Monday through Friday in January each entry featuring a 60s movie you think screenwriters should know about and hopefully at some point watch. If more people volunteer, then we can expand the series into 31 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 need to look at some examples of previous posts, go here, here, or here and click on any link.
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.
For inspiration, here are some images from classic 60s movies:
Here’s your chance to feature a personal favorite from the decade of the 60s. And for every contributor, I will send a special gust of creative juju your way.
Click REPLY and see you in comments!
UPDATE: We already have 19 volunteers. I have put in bold those who have already sent their guest post to me.
Ipsita Barik — Rosemary’s Baby
Bookman Film — The Sound of Music
Brandnewusedcar — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Markham Cook — Jules et Jim
Steve Cook — The Blue Max
Felicity Flesher — The Music Man
JasperLamarCrab — 2001: A Space Odyssey
D.L. Gill — Zulu
Jeff Guenther — Cool Hand Luke
Kate Hagen — Repulsion
John Henderson — Night of the Living Dead
hoernsch — The Graduate
Zach Jansen — They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Will King — The Pink Panther
Lisaisfunny — Blow Up
Jack McDonald — Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Daryl Powell — The Apartment
jprichard — Persona
Michael Waters — Dr. No
Again, we’re looking for 22 volunteers. Since I got a late start on this project, we may not launch on January 5, that depends on how soon folks can get me their write-ups. We’ll play it by ear, but obviously, the sooner, the better.
UPDATE #2: The GITS community comes through again! Within 48 hours of the original post, not only have 16 of you volunteered to do write-ups on a 60s movie, 5 of you have already emailed me your posts. What that means is we can get started on Monday, January 5. Looking for 6 more volunteers. That would cover every Mon-Fri for the month. However as with the 70s, 80s and 90s series, we ended up with enough posts to fill out the entire month. I’m tempted to start the series tomorrow (Jan. 1) and act on the belief that we’ll get 31 people to commit. Any more volunteers? You earn good karma and creative juju for your efforts!
Creative juju for each volunteer! KAWHOOOOOOSH!!!
UPDATE #3: Up to 19 volunteers now. Let’s aim high and get 31 posts to feature every day in January!
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