Luckily, I've got a whole 9-10 weeks ahead of me before I'm to ship off to college, and I sincerely plan on utilizing every day between now and then by packing in as many movies as possible. Here are some of the directors whose work I really need to familiarize myself with further in the mean time.

• Samuel Fuller
• Luis Bunuel
• Ingmar Bergman
• Akira Kurosawa
• John Cassavettes
• Jean-Luc Godard
• Federico Fellini
• Jules Dassin
• Ernest Lubitsch
• Charlie Chaplin
• Louis Malle
• Yasujiro Ozu
• Werner Herzog
• Stanley Kubrick