The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” 

Joseph Campbell


These are only some of my screenplay favorites.  I have found these movies to be excellent examples to study.  I hope you enjoy, and please feel free to e-mail me your ‘
gems’.
 
Contemporary Classics:  

Chinatown by Robert Towne

Body Heat by Lawrence Kasden
Ordinary People by Robert Benton
Three Days of the Condor by Lorenzo Semple Jr., David Rayfiel, James Grady II (novel)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote
Network  by Paddy Chayefsky
Local Hero  by Bill Forsythe

GoodFellas by Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese

The Usual Suspects by Christopher McQuarrie
Being There by Jerzey Kosinski & Robert C. Jones
Epics
Lawrence of Arabia by Robert Bolt
The Killing Fields by Bruce Robinson
The Empire of the Sun by Tom Stoppard, Menno Menjes (uncredited)
Foreign
Jean de Florette by Claude Berri, Gerard Brach, Marcel Pagnol (novel)
Manons of Spring by Claude Berri, Marcel Pagnol
Horseman on the Roof by Jean Claude Carriere, Nina Companeez, Jean Paul Rappereau  Jean Giono (novel)
Life is Beautiful by Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
My Life as a Dog by Reidar Jonsson, Lasse Hallstrom, Reidar Jonsson, Brasse Brannstrom, Peter Berglund
Cinema Paradiso by Peter Fernandez,  (English version) Giuseppe Tornatore  
Gems
The Player by Michael Tolkin
The Shawshank Redemption by Frank Darabont, Short Story by Stephen King
Fearless by Rafael Yglesias
I Never Sang for my Father by Robert Anderson VII
Reuben, Reuben by Julius Epstein, Herman Shumlin, Peter DeVries (novel)
The Apostle   by Robert Duvall
Birdy  by Jack Behr, Sandy Kroopf, William Warton (novel)
The Fisher King by Richard LaGravenese
The Insider by Eric Roth, Michael Mann
Dangerous Liaisons  by Christopher Hampton, Chederlos de Laclos (novel)
Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
Baghdad Café aka 
Out of Rosenheim  by Eleonore Adlon,  Percy Adlon,  Christopher Doherty
Writer/Director’s
John Sayles (Anything)

Joel & Ethan Coen   (Anything)

Federico Fellini   (Anything)

JOSEPH CAMPBELL COMPANION edited by Diane Osbon
THE ART OF DRAMATIC WRITING by Lajos Egri
THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED by Dr. M. Scott Peck
THE HERO WITHIN by Carol Pearson
SEAT OF THE SOUL by Gary Zukau
SHAKESPEARE-The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
ADVENTURES IN THE SCREEN TRADE by William Goldman
THE SCREENWRITER'S BIBLE by Paul Trottier

TEN POEMS TO CHANGE YOU LIFE  by Roger Housden

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Meanderings of a Fly Fisherman by Seth Norman



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