Sunday, March 6, 2011

Essential Film Recommendations by Michael van den Bos

Here is a list of recommended films from my current film theory instructor. The ones highlighted are those I have already seen or own - many of which were screened during lectures when I was doing my Film Studies B.A. at Brock University:


FILM
YEAR
DIRECTOR
8 1/2
1963
Federico Fellini
12 Angry Men
1957
Sidney Lumet
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1954
Richard Fleischer
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Stanley Kubrick
39 Steps, The
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
400 Blows, The
1959
Francois Truffaut
42nd St.
1933
Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
A Woman in Paris
1923
Chalres Chaplin
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
1938
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Alexander Nevsky
1938
Sergei Eisenstein
Alien
1979
Ridley Scott
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930
Lewis Milestone
All That Jazz
1979
Bob Fosse
American in Paris, An
1950
Vincente Minnelli
Apocalypse Now
1979
Francis Ford Coppola
Applause
1929
Rouben Mamoulian
Asphalt Jungle, The
1950
John Huston
Awful Truth, The
1937
Leo McCarey
Bambi (Walt Disney)
1942
David Hand
Band Wagon, The
1953
Vincente Minnelli
Battleship Potemkin
1925
Sergei Eisenstein
Beauty and the Beast
1946
Jean Cocteau
Belle de Jour
1967
Luis Buñuel
Best Years of Our Lives, The
1946
William Wyler
Big Sleep, The
1946
Howard Hawks
Birds, The
1963
Alfred Hitchcock
Birth of a Nation, The
1915
D.W. Griffith
Black Narcissus
1947
Michel Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Black Pirate, The
1926
Albert Parker
Bob le Flambeur
1956
Jean-Pierre Melville
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
Arthur Penn
Breathless
1960
Jean-Luc Godard
Bride of Frankenstein
1935
James Whale
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
1957
David Lean
Brief Encounter
1945
David Lean
Bringing Up Baby
1938
Howard Hawks
Broken Blossoms
1919
D.W. Griffith
Cabinet of Dr. Galigari, The
1920
Robert Wiene
Cabiria
1914
Giovanni Pastrone
Casablanca
1942
Michael Curtiz
Cat People
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (doc)
2003
Richard Schickel
Children of Paradise
1945
Marcel Carné
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (doc)
1995
Kevin Brownlow & David Gill
Circus, The
1928
Chalres Chaplin
Citizen Kane
1941
Orson Welles
City Lights
1931
Charles Chaplin
Conversation, The
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
Crowd, The
1928
King Vidor
D.W. Griffith: Father of Film
1993
Kevin Brownlow & David Gill
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (the original version)
1951
Robert Wise
Directed by John Ford (doc)
1971/2006
Peter Bogdanovich
Doctor Zhvivago
1965
David Lean
Double Indemnity
1944
Billy Wilder
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964
Stanley Kubrick
Dracula
1931
Tod Browning
Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers)
1933
Leo McCarey
Dumbo (Walt Disney)
1941
Ben Sharpsteen
East of Eden
1955
Elia Kazan
Fantasia (Walt Disney)
1940
various
Faust
1926
F.W. Murnau
Floating Weeds
1959
Yasujiro Ozu
Foolish Wives
1922
Erich von Stroheim
Forbidden Planet
1956
Fred M. Wilcox
Foreign Correspondent
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Fort Apache
1948
John Ford
Frankenstein
1931
James Whale
Freaks
1932
Tod Browning
Frenzy
1972
Alfred Hitchcock
Freshman, The (Harold Lloyd)
1925
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
From Here to Eternity
1953
Fred Zinnemann
General, The
1927
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Godfather II, The
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
Godfather, The
1972
Francis Ford Coppola
Gold Rush, The
1925
Charles Chaplin
Gone with the Wind
1939
Victor Fleming
Goodfellas
1990
Martin Scorsese
Graduate, The
1967
Mike Nichols
Grand Illusion
1937
Jean Renoir
Grapes of Wrath, The
1940
John Ford
Great Expectations
1946
David Lean
Great Train Robbery, The
1903
Edwin S. Porter
Greed
1925
Erich von Stroheim
Gunga Din
1939
George Stevens
Hard Day's Night, A
1964
Richard Lester
Hidden Fortress, The
1958
Akira Kurosawa
High Noon
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Hiroshima mon amour
1959
Alain Resnais
His Girl Friday
1940
Howard Hawks
Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (doc)
1980
Kevin Brownlow & David Gill
How Green Was My Valley
1941
John Ford
I Vitelloni
1953
Federico Fellini
Idle Class, The (two-reeler)
1921
Charles Chaplin
Intolerance
1916
D.W. Griffith
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1955
Don Siegel
Iron Horse, The
1924
John Ford
It Happened One Night
1934
Frank Capra
Jazz Singer, The
1927
Alan Crosland
Jezebel
1938
William Wyler
Kid, The
1921
Charles Chaplin
Killing, The
1956
Stanley Kubrick
King Kong
1933
Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Knife in the Water
1962
Roman Polanski
La Bête humaine
1938
Jean Renoir
La Dolce Vita
1960
Federico Fellini
La Strada
1954
Federico Fellini
Lady From Shanghai, The
1948
Orson Welles
Lady Vanishes, The
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Last Laugh, The
1924
F.W. Murnau
L'Atalante
1934
Jean Vigo
Laura
1944
Otto Preminger
L'Avventura
1960
Michelangelo Antonioni
Lawrence of Arabia
1962
David Lean
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
John M. Stahl
Letter, The
1940
William Wyler
Little Caesar
1930
Mervyn LeRoy
Lodger, The
1926
Alfred Hitchcock
Lolita
1961
Stanley Kubrick
Love Me Tonight
1932
Rouben Mamoulian
M
1931
Fritz Lang
Magnificent Ambersons, The
1942
Orson Welles
Maltese Falcon, The
1941
John Huston
Man Who Knew Too Much, The
1934
Alfred Hitchcock
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (Hitchcock's remake)
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The
1962
John Ford
Man with a Movie Camera
1929
Dziga Vertov
Manchurian Candidate, The
1962
John Frankenheimer
Manhattan
1979
Woody Allen
Meet Me in St. Louis
1944
Vincente Minnelli
Metropolis
1927
Fritz Lang
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The
1944
Preston Sturges
Modern Times
1936
Charles Chaplin
Most Dangerous Game, The
1932
Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel
Mother
1926
V.I. Pudovkin
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
Frank Capra
Murder, My Sweet
1944
Edward Dmytryk
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935
Frank Lloyd
My Darling Clementine
1946
John Ford
Napolean
1926
Abel Gance
Narrow Margin, The
1952
Richard Fleischer
Night at the Opera, A (The Marx Brothers)
1935
Sam Wood
Night of the Hunter, The
1955
Charles Laughton
North by Northwest
1959
Alfred Hitchcock
Nosferatu
1922
F.W. Murnau
Nothing Sacred
1937
William A. Wellman
Notorious
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
October
1928
Sergei Eisenstein
Oliver Twist
1948
David Lean
On the Waterfront
1954
Elia Kazan
Once Upon A Time In The West
1969
Sergio Leone
One Week (two-reeler)
1920
Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Only Angels Have Wings
1939
Howard Hawks
Ox-Bow Incident, The
1943
William A. Wellman
Palm Beach Story, The
1941
Preston Sturges
Pandora's Box
1928
G.W. Pabst
Passion of Joan of Arc, The
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Pather Panchali
1955
Satyajit Ray
Paths of Glory
1957
Stanley Kubrick
Peeping Tom
1960
Michael Powell
Phantom of the Opera, The (silent, starring Lon Chaney)
1925
Rupert Julian
Pick-up on South Street
1953
Samuel Fuller
Pinocchio (Walt Disney)
1940
Ben Sharpsteen, Hamitlon Luske
Psycho
1960
Alfred Hitchcock
Public Enemy, The
1931
William A. Wellman
Queen Christina
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Quiet Man, The
1952
John Ford
Raging Bull
1980
Martin Scorsese
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
Steven Spielberg
Rashomon
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Raw Deal
1948
Anthony Mann
Rear Window
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
Rebecca
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Red Ballon, The (short film_
1956
Albert Lamorisse
Red Hot Riding Hot (cartoon short)
1943
Tex Avery
Red River
1947
Howard Hawks
Red Shoes, The
1948
Michel Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Repulsion
1965
Roman Polanski
Rio Bravo
1958
Howard Hawks
Rio Grande
1950
John Ford
Robin Hood (silent version with Douglas Fairbanks)
1922
Alan Dwan
Roman Holiday
1953
William Wyler
Rules of the Game
1939
Jean Renoir
Scarface (the original film starring Paul Muni)
1932
Howard Hawks
Scarlett Empress, The
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Searchers, The
1956
John Ford
Secrets of a Soul
1926
G.W. Pabst
Seven Samurai
1954
Akira Kurosawa
Seventh Seal, The
1956
Ingmar Bergman
Shadow of A Doubt
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Shadows
1959
John Cassavetes
Shane
1953
George Stevens
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
1949
John Ford
Sherlock, Jr.
1924
Buster Keaton
Shop Around the Corner, The
1940
Ernst Lubitsch
Singin' In The Rain
1952
Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
David Hand, Walt Disney
Some Like It Hot
1959
Billy Wilder
Sons of the Desert (Laurel and Hardy)
1933
William A. Seiter
Stagecoach
1939
John Ford
Star is Born, A
1937
William A. Wellman
Star is Born, A
1954
George Cukor
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
1928
Charles F. Riesner, Buster Keaton
Strangers on a Train
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Strike
1925
Sergei Eisenstein
Strong Man, The (Harry Langdon)
1926
Frank Capra
Sullivan's Travels
1941
Preston Sturges
Sunrise - A Song of Two Humans
1927
F.W. Murnau
Sunset Blvd.
1950
Billy Wilder
Superman
1978
Richard Donner
Sweet Smell of Success
1957
Alexander Mackendrick
Swing Time
1936
George Stevens
Taxi Driver
1976
Martin Scorsese
Ten Commandments, The
1923
Cecil B. DeMille
Ten Commandments, The
1956
Cecil B. DeMille
They Were Expendable
1945
John Ford
Thief of Bagdad, The
1940
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan
Thin Man, The
1934
W.S. Van Dyke
Thing From Another Word, The
1951
Christian Nyby (Howard Hawks)
Third Man, The
1949
Carol Reed
Thorne of Blood
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Throne of Blood
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Tokyo Story
1953
Yasujiro Ozu
Top Hat
1935
Mark Sandrich
Touch of Evil
1958
Orson Welles
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
1948
John Huston
Triumph of the Will
1936
Leni Riefenstahl
Trouble in Paradise
1932
Ernst Lubitsch
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
1964
Jacques Demy
Underworld
1927
Josef von Sternberg
Varieté
1925
E.A.Dupont
Vertigo
1958
Alfred Hitchcock
West Side Story
1961
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
White Heat
1949
Raoul Walsh
Wild Bunch, The
1969
Sam Peckinpah
Wild Strawberries
1957
Ingmar Bergman
Wind, The
1928
Victor Seastom
Wizard of Oz, The
1939
Victor Fleming
Written on the Wind
1956
Douglas Sirk
Wrong Man, The
1956
Alfred Hitchcock





Apparently I still have a lot of catching up to do!

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