This is a sample list - for any essential reading excerpts or set assignments will be provided for the following week:

The Apartment written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond

Django written by Quentin Tarantino

Dangerous Liaisons written by Christopher Hampton

The Warrior written by Tim Miller and Asif Kapadia

Chinatown written by Robert Towne and directed by Roman Polanski

Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio di Sica

Memento - Screenplay Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan. Director Christopher Nolan. 2000.

Pride and Prejudice - Screenplay Deborah Moggach. Director Joe Wright. 2005.

The Lives of Others - written & directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. 2006.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Screenplay by Ronald Harwood. Director Julian Schnabel. 2007.

Frost/ Nixon - Screenplay Peter Morgan, Director Ron Howard. 2008.

The Hurt Locker - Screenplay Mark Boal. Director Kathryn Bigelow. 2008.

Submarine - written and directed by Richard Ayoade. 2010.

The Same River Twice by Alice Walker (contains her first draft screenplay for the film The Color Purple)

The Truman Show – written by Andrew Niccol, 1999

You Can Count On Me written by Kenneth Lonergan, 2001