Italicize or underline the movie title every time you mention it in the body of the paper.
Include the director's last name, followed by a comma and the year the movie was released in parentheses after the first time you mention the movie title. A sample sentence would read, "Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) serves as an example of the film-making style known as film noir."
Mention the director's name and year of release into the sentence in which you first reference the movie title as an alternative method of citation. The sentence in Step 2 could also be written, "Billy Wilder's 1944 release, Double Indemnity, serves as an example of the film-making style known as film noir."
Type a Works Cited page entry at the end of the paper using the format: "Movie title [italicized]. Director's full name (abbreviated as Dir.). Main Performers' full names (abbreviated as Perf.) Production company, Year of release. Format".
For a copy of Double Indemnity in DVD format, your works cited entry would read:
"Double Indemnity. Dir. Billy Wilder. Perf. Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. Paramount Pictures, 1944. DVD."