Films: Amadeus, Amelie, American Beauty, Chinatown, Donnie Darko, Requiem For A Dream, Taxi Driver, The Seventh Seal, Up In The Air Scripts: Hotel Rwanda, Hurt Locker, LA Confidential, Network, Usual Suspects, Social Network

My God, this compilation (like yesterday's) is amazing. Thanks! I will try and respond with my films and scripts in a few days when I have a little more time to give a thoughtful response.

Same here.

Ten movies: 127 Hours, Amelie, American Beauty, Goodfellas, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, The Elephant Man, The Last Picture Show, The Piano, Trainspotting 10 Scripts: All the Presidents' Men, Brokeback Mountain, The Crying Game, Fargo, Goodfellas, The king's Speech, Raging Bull, Social Network, Taxi Driver, The Usual Suspects 10 fiction books: Complete Shakespeare, The Bell Jar, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Catcher in the Rye, The Crucible, A Doll's House, Great Expectations, The Kite Runner, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men (The only one I've read on the Non-Fiction list is Games People Play, so it gets my vote).

Was very hard to pick my ten but here goes: Apocalypse Now (1979) Casino Chinatown (1974) Leaving Las Vegas Midnight Cowboy Once Upon a Time in America Raging Bull Rain Man The Deer Hunter To Kill A Mockingbird

I'm sorry I haven't read alot of the books on the list. The Bible can be studied as a screenplay, the "old" testament. I took classes on this its amazingly sparse, emotional dramatic conflictual like a good screenplay. There is a book I love but fear will never be made into a movie although I looked it up and see it was optioned long ago. "The Man Who Fell In Love with the Moon" by Tom Spanbauer an amazing writer.

“Every once in a while a reviewer comes across a book that seems so startlingly original and true that it redeems everything: art, life, the human spirit, a reviewer’s job… Tom Spanbauer’s novel The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is such a book.” – Willamette Week

Films: Casablanca Citizen Kane Dead Poets Society The Godfather Good Will Hunting On the Waterfront Schindler's List The Shawshank Redemption To Kill a Mockingbird Wings of Desire

Films: Caché /Hidden Citizen Kane The Tree of Life Jean de Florette / Manon des sources Midnight Cowboy The Shawshank Redemption The Elephant Man La Strada The Seventh Seal The Godfather Trilogy Books: The Trial + Short Stories – Franz Kafka The Stranger – Albert Camus Animal Farm – George Orwell Miss Julie + A Dream Play – August Strindberg Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov Lord of the Flies – William Golding The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger On the Road – Jack Kerouac The Crucible – Arthur Miller Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

I gather these lists are closed and Scott is already tabulating votes, but I wanted to add in two non-fiction books in the hopes they might help someone: The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri (which I believe has been discussed previously, or at least come up in the comments, on GITS) Writing Drama, by Yves Lavandier This one has just been recommended to me and, if I'm accurately informed, I gather it is THE screenwriting book in Europe. Can any European GITS readers comment? Both of these books are relevant to screenwriting and fiction writing in general to different extents, but out of the whole Genre Essentials series, the Drama list felt like their most natural home.