j

julie & julia – nora ephron
juno – jason retina

l

la la land – damien chazelle
lady bird – greta gerwig
laurence anyways – xavier dolan
licorice pizza – paul thomas anderson
little women – greta gerwig
the lives of others – f.h. von donnersmarck
lola versus – daryl wein
lost in translation – sofia coppola
a love song for bobby long – shainee gabel

m

marie antoinette – sofia coppola
marriage story – noah baumbach
the martian – ridley scott
monster’s inc. – p. docter / d. silverman etc.
moulin rouge – baz luhrmann
the motorcycle diaries – walter salles

n

the never-ending story – wolfgang petersen
no hard feelings – gene stupnitsky

o

obvious child – gillian robespierre
once upon a time in hollywood –
quentin tarantino
one battle after another – paul thomas anderson
only lovers left alive – jim jarmusch

p

paris, je t’aime – multiple
parasite – bong joon ho
past lives – celine song
persepolis – marjane satrapi /
vincent paronnaud
poor things – yorgos lanthimos
pulp fiction – quentin tarantino

r

run lola run – tom tykwer
rush – ron howard

s

safety not guaranteed – colin trevorrow
saltburn – emerald fennell
schindler’s list – steven spielberg
shakespeare in love – john madden
the secret of kells – nora twomey /
tomm moore
soul – pete docter / kemp powers
spaceballs – mel brooks
spirited away – hayao miyazaki
the squid and the whale – noah baumbach
steve jobs – danny boyle
stranger than fiction – marc forser
superbad – greg mottola
the sword in the stone – wolfgang reitherman

t

take this waltz – sarah polley
the triplets of belleville – sylvain chomet
there will be blood – paul thomas anderson
tick, tick… BOOM! – lin-manuel miranda
top gun – tony scott
top gun: maverick – joseph kosinski
trainspotting – danny boyle
trainwreck – judd apatow

v

v for vendetta – james mcteigue
victoria – sebastian schipper

w

walk the line – james mangold
when harry met sally – rob reiner
where the wild things are – spike jonze
the white diamond – werner herzog
wild – jean-marc vallée
the wolf of wall street – martin scorsese
world of tomorrow – don hertzfeldt

abc

30 rock
all the light we cannot see
arrested development
bad monkey
based on a true story
the bear
beef
black mirror
broad city
conversations with friends

defg

daisy jones & the six
the dropout
dune: prophecy
easy
fleabag
formula one: drive to survive
the franchise
friends
glow
good girls

hik

hacks
handmaid’s tale
high fidelity
industry
insecure
killing eve
the knick

lm

loki
lupin
maid
maniac
minx
the morning show
mozart in the jungle
mr. & mrs. smith

no

new girl
newsroom
nine perfect strangers
normal people
the office
one day

pqr

the paper
parks and rec
physical
platonic
poker face
the queen’s gambit
ripley
russian doll

s

the sandman
search party
severance
sex education
silicon valley
schitt’s creek
the studio
squid game
succession
station eleven

tuvwy

ted lasso
too much
transparent
the umbrella academy
veep
the white lotus
yellowstone

1984 – george orwell
a moveable feast – ernest hemingway
call me by your name – andre aciman
the circle – dave eggers
cloud atlas – david mitchell
conversations with friends – sally rooney

the dharma bums – jack kerouac
down and out in paris and london –
george orwell
eat, pray, love – elizabeth gilbert
the great gatsby – f. scott fitzgerald
goodbye to berlin – christopher isherwood
high fidelity – nick hornby

i feel bad about my neck – nora ephron
i remember nothing – nora ephron
identity – milan kundera
intermezzo – sally rooney
into the wild – jon krakauer
junky – william burroughs

lessons in chemistry – bonnie garmus
letters to a young poet – rainer maria rilke
the martian – andy weir
me talk pretty one day – david sedaris
memoirs of a beatnik – diane di prima
minor characters – joyce johnson
normal people – sally rooney

on the road – jack kerouac
the rules do not apply – ariel levy
where the crawdads sing – delia owens
wild – cheryl strayed
the wind-up bird chronicle – haruki murakami
the year of magical thinking – joan didion

the art of dramatic writing – lajos egri
the art of memoir – mary karr
the artist’s way – julia cameron
the anatomy of story – john truby

bird by bird – anne lammott
creativity inc. – ed catmull
the hero with a thousand faces –
joseph campbell

making a good script great – linda seger
the nutshell technique – jill chamberlain
poetics – aristotle

save the cat – blake synder
screenplay – syd field
story – robert mckee

the writer’s journey – christopher vogler
on writing – stephen king
the writing life – annie dillard
on writing well – william zissner
writing down the bones – natalie goldberg