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What's going to help you write a good film? Well, nothing will ever replace a good story, but some things can help you figure out the most effective way to tell that story. On this page I have listed some resources I think can be of benefit to aspiring screenwriters, as well as to people who already have many drafts behind them: Classic short films on DVD and great/successful scripts that let you make your own film school, script authoring software that makes formatting your final draft a breeze, and screenwriting books that deal with story and structure, as well as relate experiences in the film industry and entertainment business that help a screenwriter learn how to market and sell a screenplay or treatment once it is written.

Scripts & DVDs

There's a lot to be learned from scripts that WORK--even ones that don't, but the ones included here are either great scripts or from successful films, so they should all be fairly entertaining to read. Handy access to order DVDs of each film included, because it's important to rewatch the movie after reading the script to gain a fresh perspective, not to mention receive the added bonus of the DVD extras that often give great insight into what the writer or filmmaker was thinking throughout the process of making the movie.

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Scripts Worth a Second Look

Adaptation (Charlie Kaufman) | DVD

Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) | DVD

American Beauty | DVD

Avalon, Tin Men, Diner (Barry Levinson) | A-DVD | TM-DVD | D-DVD

Au Revoir Les Enfants/Goodbye, Children (Louis Malle)

Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing (2 Screenplays) (Ethan & Joel Coen) BF-DVD| MC-DVD

Before Sunrise & Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) | Sunrise-DVD | Sunset-DVD

Being John Malkovich (Charlie Kaufman) | DVD

Big Fish | DVD

The Big Lebowski | DVD

Blood Simple (Joel Coen) | DVD

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson) | DVD

Chinatown and the Last Detail (Robert Towne) | DVD

Clerks and Chasing Amy (Kevin Smith) | C-DVD | CA-DVD

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) | DVD

Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)| DVD

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script (Charlie Kaufman) | DVD

Fargo (Ethan & Joel Coen) | DVD

Five Screenplays: The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve,
Sullivan's Travels, and Hail the Conquering Hero
(Preston Sturges)

Four More Screenplays: The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek,
Unfaithfully Yours Triumph over Pain/The Great Moment
(Preston Sturges)

Three More Screenplays: The Power and the Glory (influenced Citizen Kane) and two romantic comedies, Remember the Night and Easy Living (Preston Sturges)

The Frasier Scripts (David Angell) | DVD

Freaks and Geeks: Volume 1 & Volume 2 (Paul Feig, Judd Apatow)| DVD

Gladiator (Ridley Scott) | DVD

Good Will Hunting (Ben Affleck & Matt Damon) | DVD

L.A. Confidential (Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson) | DVD

L.A. Story and Roxanne (Steve Martin) | LADVD |ROXDVD

Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, John O'Brien) | DVD

Lost In Translation | DVD

Magnolia: The Shooting Script (Paul Thomas Anderson) | DVD

Magnolia & Punch Drunk Love

Memento & Following (Christopher Nolan) | MDVD | FDVD

Natural Born Killers (Quentin Tarantino) | DVD

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel & Ethan Coen)| DVD

On the Waterfront: The Final Shooting Script (Budd Schulberg) | DVD

Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) | DVD

Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson) | DVD

Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen) | DVD

Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino) | DVD

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson) | DVD

Rushmore (Wes Anderson & Owen Wilson) | DVD

Scream (Kevin Williamson) | DVD


Shakespeare in Love
(Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard) | DVD

The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script ( Frank Darabont) | DVD

The Seinfeld Scripts | DVD- Seasons 1 & 2 | Season 3

Slacker (Richard Linklater) | DVD

Something's Gotta Give | DVD

Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder) | DVD

Taxi Driver (Paul Schrader) | DVD

Thelma & Louise (Marita Sturke) | DVD

Titanic: the Illustrated Script (James Cameron, Randall Frankes) | DVD

To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and the Trip to Bountiful (Horton Foote)
TKM-DVD | TM-DVD| TB-DVD

True Romance (Quentin Tarantino)| DVD

Welcome To The Dollhouse (Todd Solondz) | DVD

When Harry Met Sally (Nora Ephron) | DVD

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