 | Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $6.40 Everyone knows that Tarantino can come up with dialogue like nobody else. He is a master at writing.
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 | Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.00 All of Scorsese's movies are obviously good. But to me taxi driver is his most compelling, and Travis bickle is one of his more fasinating characters.
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 | Being John Malkovich (Faber and Faber Screenplays) by Charlie Kaufman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.95 Charlie Kaufman is pretty much a genius, I hope to write as good as him one day. I'm still only 18, so I've got time.
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 | Lost in Translation
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.45 Sophia Copolla may not be the best actor. But she's an amazing writer and director, and this is just a beautifully honest film. Anyone else would've driven through every cliche in the book.
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 | 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $14.61 The best movie ever about filmaking. Fellini's style is definitly influential to most filmakers today.
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 | American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.87 Alan ball showed early signs of genius here, the ending monologue is one of the beautiful things I've ever heard!
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 | The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $21.50 Who can forget the famous cuckoo clock monologue? Even more impressive that he improvised that.
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 | Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.38 The most realistic depiction on the subject of addiction. Selby and Aronofoski made one of the most powerful films I've seen.
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 | Fargo (Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.47 Every film geek loves the cohen Bros. This is the reason why. That's a very nice script ya got there eh.
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 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $7.82 This was written in about 1913, and I 's pretty much the most influential horror movie ever. It would be genius now, as long as it wasn't done by Uwe boll or Rob Zombie.
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 | North by Northwest (50th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 I don't even have to explain. Hitchcock wrote some of most famous scenes in movie history.
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 | 28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $1.30 I love danny boyle films. And alan Garland wrote one of the best zombie films in the past decade.
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![2001: A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jYA7Mv32L._SL75_.jpg) | 2001: A Space Odyssey [Blu-ray]
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $8.00 Although most don't know it was a book first. Kubrick is still a true visionary. Probably the best book adaptation ever.
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 | Seven Samurai (Criterion Collection Spine #2)
Buy used from: $10.95 You can't find a much better film director then Kurosawa. This is only one of his many masterpieces. It inspired everyone from John Ford to Steven spielberg.
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 | Juno (Single-Disc Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.80 Diablo Cody is definitly a new refreshing voice in the world of screenwriting. Juno may not be very realistic, but it is a very joyous experience.
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 | Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $19.77 I love love love Francois Truffaut's movies. This and the 400 blows, are both extremely well written classics.
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 | Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $42.00 It's just amazing how it's the most realistic portrayal of a prostitute ever. Yet sex is never even mentioned, how did he do that?
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 | Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $9.85 One of the best musicals ever, and the screenplay makes it seem like the movie should of been impossible to make. Who would've thought?
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 | Grave of the Fireflies (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $14.99 Proof that animation can be so much more then just shrek and spongebob. Try not crying at the end of this.
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