October: Classic International Movie Month
Every several months since 2013, we’ve had a Classic Movie Month in which I invite GITS readers to volunteer writing up an overview of one of their favorite movies. We’ve moved through this process decade by decade, the idea being to create an online resource for writers to have at their disposal when studying movies and movie history. Thus far we’ve covered these decades:
Let’s try something different this time around and focus on international movies, that is movies produced outside the United States.
I’m looking for 20 volunteers to write guest posts to go live Monday through Friday in October, each entry featuring a classic international 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 to run seven days a week.
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 40s 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, 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 images from some classic international movies:
Rashômon (1951)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Wings of Desire (1987)
8 1/2 (1963)
Here’s your chance to feature a personal favorite of a classic international film. And for every contributor, I will send a special gust of creative juju your way. Click REPLY and see you in comments!
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