November 2006
Miradas--in Spanish
extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site
Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - lifehack.org
by 22 otherssimple, intuitive, thought provoking tips that really work
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
Senses of Cinema
one of the best online film journals; exhaustive and regularly updated links page
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
dream
tranquil animation with zen spirit; again, worth exploring narratives with a whole different time sense and way of making a point
Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com
by 4 otherszen koans help writers rethink narrative in another tradition of storytelling
Zensufi Park
Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs
Hack your way out of writer’s block
witty and perhaps even useful
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"descriptive list which was created by Georges Polti to categorize every dramatic situation which might occur in a story or performance"; tips for screenwriters looking for ideas
August 2006
The Tangled Web of Syriana
a fun chart illustrating the plot and connections between characters of a good political film
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