| Written Works |
Movies |
Movies (cont'd) |
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| 1984 by George Orwell |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
The Set-up |
| A Blessing by James Wright |
39 Steps |
The Seven Samurai |
| A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss |
A Bronx Tale |
The Seventh Seal |
| A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten |
A Bug's Life |
The Silence |
| A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud |
A Day in the Country |
The Sixth Sense |
| A Ghost of a Chance by Bob Baron (my action-packed, crowd-pleasing screenplay thus far unproduced - anyone in Hollywood reading this?) |
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies |
The Story of G.I. Joe |
| A Light in August by William Faulkner |
A River Runs Through It |
The Tao of Steve |
| A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
The Terror of Tiny Town |
| A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson |
Adrift |
The Truman Show |
| A Woman's View by Jeanine Basinger |
Aguirre, Wrath of God |
The Wanderers |
| Adventure, Mystery, and Romance by John G. Cawelti |
All That Jazz |
The War of the Worlds |
| Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan |
Amarcord |
The Whole Town's Talking |
| All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque |
American Time Capsule |
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl |
| America's Women: 400 years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins |
And Now For Something Completely Different |
The World of Apu |
| Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt |
Apollo 13 |
Time After Time |
| Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Awakenings |
Titanic |
| Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoi |
Babe |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
| As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden |
Back to the Future |
Tokyo Story |
| Back in the World by Tobias Wolff |
Badlands |
Tootsie |
| Biocosm By James Gardner |
Bang the Drum Slowly |
Touch of Evil |
| Brave Dames and Wimpettes by Susan Isaacs |
Barbershop |
Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
| Brave New World by Aldous Huxley |
Beauty and the Beast |
Un Chien Andalou |
| Cannery Row by John Steinbeck |
Bedazzled (1967) |
Used Cars |
| Carnival Evening by Linda Pastan |
Before Sunrise |
Usual Suspects |
| Catch-22 by Joseph Heller |
Before Sunset |
Vertigo |
| Cathedral by Raymond Carver |
Being John Malkovich |
Videodrome |
| Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
Big Fish |
Visions of Light |
| Changes by Gail Sheehy |
Blue Vinyl |
Wayne's World |
| Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck |
Born on the 4th of July |
Westward the Women |
| City of Light by Lauren Belfer |
Boyz 'n the Hood |
What's Opera, Doc? |
| Cult Movies by Danny Peary |
Broadcast News |
When Harry Met Sally |
| Dad by William Wharton |
Brother From Another Planet |
Wild Strawberries |
| Damage by Josephine Hart |
Cabaret |
Witness |
| Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler |
Carnival of Souls (1964) |
Wizard of Oz |
| Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller |
Casablanca |
Women in Love |
| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas |
Children of a Lesser God |
Woodstock |
| Dostoevsky, Kierkegard, Nietzsche, and Kafka by William Hubben |
Citizen Kane |
Word Wars |
| Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
City Lights |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Dracula by Bram Stoker |
City Slickers |
Young and Innocent |
| Dune by Frank Herbert |
Clash by Night |
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| Enjoyment of Laughter by Max Eastman |
Contact |
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| Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa |
Cops |
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| Fatal Vision by Joe McGinnis |
Crimes and Misdemeanors |
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| Femininity by Susan Brownmiller |
Crying Game |
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| Figure From a Classical Tragedy by Jack Anderson |
Dark Star |
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| Film As Art by Rudolf Arnheim |
Day for Night |
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| Film/Cinema/Movie by Gerald Mast |
Dead Man Walking |
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| First Aid at 4 A.M. by Christopher Bursk |
Dead of Night |
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| First Freedom by Robert Downs |
Defending Your Life |
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| Floating Off the Page by Ken Wells |
Donnie Darko |
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| Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
Don't Look Now |
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| Freakonomics by Steven Leavitt and Stephen Dubner |
Double Indemnity |
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| Frida by Hayden Herrera |
Duck Amuck |
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| Getting Even by Woody Allen |
Duck Soup |
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| Ghosty Men by Franz Lioz |
E.T. |
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| Give Me a Break by John Stossel |
Eraserhead |
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| Great Books by David Denby |
Even Dwarfs Started Small |
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| Hardcore by Jim Thompson |
Everybody Says I Love You |
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| Higher Education by William C. DeVane |
Fat City |
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| Ideas and Men: The Sory of Western Thought by Crane Brinton |
Fatal Attraction |
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| Importance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pear |
Father of the Bride |
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| Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer |
Fear of a Black Hat |
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| Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer |
Fight Club |
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| It's Getting Better All the Time by Stephen Moore and Julian Simon |
Fishheads |
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| Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund Freud |
Frank Film |
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| Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy |
Frankenstein (1931) |
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| Keaton by Daniel Moews |
Friendly Persuasion |
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| Life: The Movie by Neal Gabler |
Funny Farm |
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| Lilydale by Elizabeth Wicker |
Gabriel Over the White House |
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| Little Big Man by Thomas Berger |
Gates of Heaven (NOT Heaven's Gate) |
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| Look at Me by Jennifer Egan |
Ghost |
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| Looking by W.D. Snodgrass |
Ghost and the Darkness |
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| Love is Hell by Matt Groening |
Ghost World |
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| Love, Medicine, and Miracles by Bernard Siegel |
Grand Canyon |
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| Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold |
Groundhog Day |
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| Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
H .M. Pulham, Esq. |
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| Magic Man by Bob Baron (another vibrant screenplay, still available) |
Hannah and Her Sisters |
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| Making Movies by Sidney Lumet |
Heaven Can Wait (1978) |
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| Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung |
Hero (Chinese) |
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| Man in Full by Thomas Wolfe |
High Noon |
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| Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl |
His Girl Friday |
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| Margaret Mead and Samoa by Derek Freeman |
Hour of the Wolf |
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| Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury |
Images |
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| Martin Luther King by Marshall Frady |
In America |
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| Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
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| Middle Passage by Charles Johnson |
It's a Gift |
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| Middlemarch by George Eliot |
It's A Wonderful Life |
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| Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield |
Jaws |
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| Movie Made America by Robert Sklar |
Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring |
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| Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf |
JFK |
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| Native Son by Richard Wright |
Johnny Guitar |
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| Night Driving by Dick Allen |
Junior |
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| No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre |
King of Masks |
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| Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Kiss Me Deadly |
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| On Liberty by John Stuart Mill |
Kramer vs. Kramer |
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| Patrimony by Philip Roth |
Kundun |
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| Projected Fears by Kendal Phillips |
La Jetee |
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| Prologue to the American System of Higher Education by E.D. Duryea |
Last Picture Show |
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| Rats, Lice, and History by Hans Zinsser |
Last Tango in Paris |
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| Realms of Meaning by Philip Phenix |
Life is Beautiful |
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| Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser |
Lifeguard |
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| Reel Women by Ally Acker |
Little Big Man |
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| Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust |
Local Hero |
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| Resurrection by Leo Tolstoi |
Lost in America |
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| Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill |
Love Me Tonight |
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| School is Hell by Matt Groening |
Manhattan Murder Mystery |
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| Seeing Through Movies by Mark Crispin Miller |
Me Myself I (NOT Irene) |
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| Self Made Man by Norah Vincent |
Meet Me in St. Louis |
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| Seven Theories of Human Nature by Leslie Stevenson |
Menilmontant |
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| Siddhartha by Herman Hesse |
Meshes of the Afternoon |
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| Silent Movies by Neal Sinyard |
Mildred Pierce |
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| Skywalking by Dale Pollock |
Million Dollar Baby |
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| Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
Miracle on 34th Street |
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| Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson |
Modern Times |
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| Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg |
Monkey Business (1931) |
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| Star Wars: The Magic of Myth by Mary Henderson |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
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| Stepin Fetchit by Mel Watkins |
My Darling Clementine |
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| Suits Me by Diane Middlebrook |
Nashville |
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| Taking Laughter Seriously by Jack Morreall |
Night and Fog |
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| Telling It Again and Again by Bruce Kawin |
Night at the Opera |
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| Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy |
Night of the Hunter |
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| The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler |
Night of the Living Dead |
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| The Alexandria Quarter by Lawrence Durrell |
Nights of Cabiria |
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| The Alienist by Caleb Carr |
North by Northwest |
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| The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris |
Now, Voyager |
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| The American College and University by Frederick Rudolph |
O Lucky Man! |
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| The American Way by Edward Kearny, Mary Ann Kearney, and Jo Ann Crandall |
On Golden Pond |
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| The Areopagitica by John Milton |
One A.M. |
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| The Art of Alfred Hitchcock by Donald Spoto |
One Week |
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| The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
Onibaba |
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| 'The Autobiography of Santa Claus as told to Jeff Guinn |
Open City |
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| The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath |
Ordinary People |
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| The Bible |
Our Hospitality |
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| The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker |
Our Lady of the Sphere |
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| The Book by Alan Watts |
Outland |
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| The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Paper Moon |
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| The Call of the Mall by Paco Underhill |
Parenthood |
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| The Castle by Franz Kafka |
Pee Wee's Big Adventure |
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| The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger |
Picnic at Hanging Rock |
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| The Christmas Box by Richard Evans |
Places in the Heart |
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| The Cinema of Frank Capra by Leland Poague |
Platoon |
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| The Cinema of Generation X by Peter Hanson |
Pleasantville |
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| The Collected Short Stories by Franz Kafka |
Psycho |
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| The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
Pulp Fiction |
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| The Comic Mind by Gerald Mast |
Purple Rose of Cairo |
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| The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoi |
Quiz Show |
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| The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber |
Raising Arizona |
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| The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown |
Ransom |
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| The Dark Side of Genius by Donald Spoto |
Ratatouille |
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| The Dehumanization of Art by Ortega Y. Gasset |
Real Life |
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| The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker |
Rebel Without a Cause |
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| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean Dominique Bauby |
Red Desert |
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| The Dwarf by Paar Lagerkvist |
Remains of the Day |
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| The Fifties by David Halberstam |
Round Up |
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| The Film Experience by Roy Huss and Norman Silverstein |
Rush |
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| The Films of John Ford by J. A. Place |
Safe |
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| The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom |
Saving Private Ryan |
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| The Floating Opera by John Barth |
Serpico |
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| The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov |
Seven Chances |
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| The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken |
Shawshank Redemption |
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| The Girls in their Summer Dresses by Irwin Shaw |
Sherlock Jr. |
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| The Grand Tour by Ron Miller and William Hartman |
Shine |
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| The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Signs |
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| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers |
Silence of the Lambs |
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| The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien |
Singin' in the Rain |
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| The Hollywood Studios by Ethan Murdden |
Sleuth |
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| The Immortalist by Alan Harrington |
Small Steps-Big Strides |
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| The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
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| The Keep by Jennifer Egan |
Something About Mary |
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| The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoi |
Sorcerer |
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| The Language Police by Diane Ravitch |
Stagecoach |
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| The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin |
Star Wars |
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| The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien |
Station Agent |
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| The Lottery by Shirley Jackson |
Strangers on a Train |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot |
Street of Shame |
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| The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann |
Take the Money and Run |
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| The Meaning of Life by Hugh Moorhead |
Targets |
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| The Misanthrope by Moliere |
Terminator |
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| The Movies in Your Mind by Harvey Greenberg |
Testament |
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| The Munchkins Remember by Stephen Cox |
Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
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| The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris |
The Band Concert |
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| The New Hollywood Cinema by Geoff King |
The Bicycle Thief |
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| The Rise of the Image and the Fall of the Word by Mitchell Stephens |
The Cameraman |
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| The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck |
The Castle (Astralian) |
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| The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
The Citadel |
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| The Search by Bob Baron (still another screenplay just waiting to be made into a hit movie) |
The Conformist |
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| The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad |
The Decalogue |
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| The Shining by Stephen King |
The Elephant Man |
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| The Silent Clowns by Walter Kerr |
The Fearless Vampire Killers |
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| The Sory of Utopias by Al Morton |
The Fireman's Ball |
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| The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth |
The French Lieutenant's Woman |
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| The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters |
The General |
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| The Story of Hollywood by Barry Norman |
The Godfather I and II |
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| The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford |
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
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| The Street by Ann Petry |
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas |
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| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn |
The Gunfighter |
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| The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell |
The Incredibles |
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| The Trial by Franz Kafka |
The Invisible Man (1933) |
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| The Unicorn by Nancy Hathaway |
The Killing |
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| The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettleheim |
The Lady Vanishes |
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| The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand |
The Lion in Winter |
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| The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta |
The Maltese Falcon |
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| The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman |
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance |
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| Theory of the Avant Garde by Renata Poggioli |
The Man Who Would Be King |
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| Three Views of Man by Robert Nye |
The Manchurian Candidate |
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| To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
The Music Box (1932) |
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| To the Virgins to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick |
The Music Lovers |
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| Tolstoi by Henri Troyat |
The Navigator |
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| Tragedy and Comedy by Walter Kerr |
The Projectionist |
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| Understanding Movies by Louis Giannetti |
The Red and the White |
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| Utopia by Ian Todd and Michael Wheeler |
The Right Stuff |
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| Utopias and Utopian Thought by Frank Manuel |
The Ruling Class |
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| Villette by Charlotte Bronte |
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| Walden Two by B. F. Skinner |
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| War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi |
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| Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen |
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| Watership Down by Richard Adams |
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| Whispers by Dean Koontz |
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| Who Are You People? by Shai Caudron |
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| Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner |
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| Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson |
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| Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne |
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| Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood |
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