[…] I was inspired to run the Classic 80s Movies series because that decade, perhaps more than any other, embraced the idea of high concept. Let’s be clear: A high concept does not guarantee a great story idea. Nor does it necessarily make the basis for a great movie. Some writers will never traffic in high concepts and if it’s a foreign way of thinking for them, …read more […]

I'd like to continue through the 90s starting with the 1992 classic, Sneakers.

I'd like to do the 70s; it's a decade i would like to know more about, and so I can write about the exorcist!

Hey, the 6 word challenge - there's an idea for Black List writers to advertise their own scripts... Anybody up for that?

BTW, ditto the 70s - little waltz down Nostalgia Lane for us slightly less young blog-stalkers... 'Grease', 'Star Wars', 'Jaws', 'Saturday Night Fever', 'Kramer vs Kramer', 'Annie Hall', 'Alien', 'Monty Python's Life of Brian' - "People of Jewusalem, Wome is your fwiend" - you can't go past that, surely?!

A series on films noir would be fun.

Not sure a single month is going to be enough to cover the 70s.

Now I like the sound of that!