Screenplays to Read 2013-14
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
NB: You can find many screenplays online via sites such as www.dailyscript.com
http://www.script-o-rama.com/snazzy/dircut.html & http://www.simplyscripts.com.