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Recommended Films for Literature Study

Animal Farm

Beautiful Mind

Catch Me if you Can

Count of Monte Cristo

Education of Little Tree

Fahrenheit 451

Farewell to Arms

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Forrest Gump

Grapes of Wrath

House of Sand and Fog

Jane Eyre

Lesson Before Dying

Manchurian Candidate

Matchstick Men

Misery

Mystic River

Neverending Story

Pay it Forward

Perfect Storm

Runaway Jury

Scarlet Letter

Schindler's List

Seabiscuit

Shipping New

Simon birch

Snow Falling on Cedars

War of the Worlds

World According to Garp

Wuthering Heights

Sources: NBS or your school library

Genres and Categories

This is an authoritative site on categories of all films. Still not sure what genre your film is? Look here!

Screenwriting Conventions

Here's what a dramatic screenplay looks like

You should refer to this when writing your scripts. 

Want to find out something about your author?

There are several great sites on finding out background notes on your author.  Using these notes helps give you an entry into the works.  Find out influences, histories and full body of work.

Needs some help with your grammar?

All good writers need help from time to time with some sticky points.  Here are some tutorials on helping you with those tricky parts.  Don't frustrate you teacher by making the same mistakes over and over.  Get help here!

Think you’d like to publish? Enter a contest

Here are some links for budding writers who'd like to win at a writing contest.  Get some feedback on your work too!

Movie Cliches

Now that you understand genre, well maybe not yet ! Well this site will remind you of what you're going to expect in a horror movie for example.

And why should this site be anything more than just funny.  Well, as film connoiseurs, you shouldn't be too impressed by a directors handywork if it's been seen and done so often as to be a cliche! 

A really cool site on Kubrick

Getting started… you'll maybe want a biography, filmography, articles, quotes from critics and works by your director, influences and finally overall contribution to film.  Additionally, a close examination of main film and themes.  Have a look at how this is done at this site.

Directors

Cinemedia is the largest internet movie database and really comprehensive on movie directors.

The quality of the content varies, so if you see a website made on geocities, then it's someone's homepage probably.  So double-check your facts.