All about movies

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About Hollywood

• Autobiography of Virginia Bradford, silent screen star

Personal reactions

• Annotated list of movies seen by Richard Seltzer (starting 1997)
• Review of Chocolat
• Recommended movie books: books about movies, writing for movies, and the film industry which I found useful.
• Movies that should be made
• Cyber-Movie Reviews These reviews were published in Media Wave magazine. For further info, contact the editor, John Shinnick.
• Johnny Mnemonic
• The Net
• Hackers
• Endings Then and Now -- from Taxi Driver to Silence of the Lambs
• Movie Endings -- what works and when?

Sites with scripts

• Spit and Polish, a full-length screen play by Richard Seltzer, HTML version, Acrobat (.pdf) version in standard script format
• Traffic Jam a short screen play by Richard Seltzer
• Drew's Scripts-O-Rama (over 600 movie scripts)
• The Screenwiters Utopian Home Page
• ScriptsNow
• American Zoetrope Screenplay Submissions Site -- Francis Ford Coppola's site; read and critique four scripts and get the right to submit your own; best received scripts get read by staff for possible production
• Project Greenlight -- Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, in association with Chris Moore, Miramax Films and HBO, have joined together to call upon the amateur screenwriters and filmmakers in the US to submit their original screenplays to a unique contest.

Independent film making

• The Complete Postproduction Handbook for Independent Filmmakers by Sallie Seltzer
• Poetry in Motion Productions provides screenplay analysis, film pre-production and production services, advice and links for the independent filmmaker and screenwriter.
• The Magazine by Sallie Seltzer
• Synopsis of The Magazine
• "Adventures in Guerrilla Filmmaking" (the story of how the feature film The Magazine was made) by Sallie Seltzer
• Press kit (credits, etc.) for The Magazine
• Wonderful Time Entertainment (Ann Farthing)

Creative Internet film/video

At this site, search for and view Wunderbar! A New York City Cab Ride by Ann Farthing

Review: Excellent. This technique is remarkably well suited for the medium. The whole piece is a monologue, a single continuous audio track of one speaker; but the video cuts quickly from one setting to another to another and back again, with the same narrator in every shot. The different settings give us a feeling for the personality of narrator. And the cuts are amazingly smooth, like she said one phrase in a car and without missing a beat continued the sentence walking on the beach. This is a great way to tell a short story in Internet video, providing both variety and continuity.

Acting/modelling

• Heather Seltzer
• Helen Estes Seltzer
• Dick Seltzer

Finding out about and buying specific movies

Advice for shopping for books, music, and videos online

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