Essential Film Watching List

Component 1: Varieties of film and filmmaking

Essential Viewing Enrichment Viewing Section A: Hollywood 1930 – 1990  Chaplin (Attenborough, 1992) Classical Hollywood (1930-1960)  Hail, Caesar! (Coen Bros, 2016)  Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942), U  Singin’ in the Rain (Donen, 1952)  The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947), PG  A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through  Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954), PG American Movies (Scorsese, 1995)  Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958), PG  Hitchcock/Truffaut (Jones, 2015)  Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959), 12  Any Hitchcock film  Any Nouvelle Vague/French New Wave film: New Hollywood (1961-1990) - 400 Blows  Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967), 15 - Jule et Jim  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975), 15 - A Bout De Souffle/Breathless  Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979), 15  Blade Runner (Scott, 1982), 15*(director’s cut)  Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989), 15

Section B: American film since 2005  Whiplash (Chazelle, 2014), 18 Mainstream film  First Man (Chazelle, 2018), PG-13  No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007), 15  Inception (Nolan, 2010), 12A  The ‘Before’ Trilogy (Linklater)  Selma (Duvernay, 2014), 12A  Slacker (Linklater, 1990), 18  Carol (Haynes, 2015), 15  Dazed and Confused (Linklater, 1993), 18  La La Land (Chazelle, 2016), 12A  School of Rock (Linklater, 2003), PG-13

Contemporary independent film (produced after 2010) Birdman (Inarritu, 2014), 18  Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010), 15 The Revenant (Inarritu, 2015), 18  Frances Ha! (Baumbach, 2012), 15 Get Out (Peele, 2017), 18  Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin, 2012), 12A  Boyhood (Linklater, 2015), 15  Captain Fantastic (Ross, 2015), 15

Section C: British film since 1995  T2 (Boyle, 2017), 18  Secrets and Lies (Leigh, 1996), 15  Brassed Off (Herman, 1996), 18  Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996), 18  I, Daniel Blake (Loach, 2016), 18  Sweet Sixteen (Loach, 2002), 18  The Full Monty (Cattaneo, 1997), 18  Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004), 15 Nil by Mouth (Oldman, 1997), 18  This is England (Meadows, 2006), 18 Naked (Leigh, 1993), 18  Moon (Jones, 2009), 15 High-Rise (Wheatley, 2015), 18  Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009), 15 Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer, 1949)  We Need to Talk about Kevin (Ramsay, 2011), 15  Sightseers (Wheatley, 2012), 15  Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013), 15.

Component 2: Global filmmaking perspectives

Essential Viewing Enrichment Viewing Section A: Global film The Shape of Water (Del Toro, 2017), 18 The Devil’s Backbone (Del Toro, 2001), 18 European film  Life is Beautiful (Benigni, Italy, 1997), PG City of Men (Morelli, 2007), 18  Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, Spain, 2006), 15 City of God: 10 Years Later, 2013 Netflix  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Schnabel, France, 2007), 12 La Dolce Vita 1960 U Fellini  Ida (Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013), 12A Life is Beautiful/La Vita e Bella (Benigni, 1997), PG-13  Mustang (Ergűven, France/Turkey, 2015), 15  Victoria (Schipper, Germany, 2015), 15

Outside Europe  Dil Se (Ratnam, India, 1998), 12  City of God (Mereilles, Brazil, 2002),  House of Flying Daggers (Zhang, China, 2004), 15  Timbuktu (Sissako, Mauritania, 2014), 12A  Wild Tales (Szifrón, Argentina, 2014), 15  Taxi Tehran (Panahi, Iran, 2015), 12

Section B: Documentary film Bitter Lake (Curtis, 2015), 18  Sisters in Law (Ayisi and Longinotto, Cameroon/UK, HyperNormalisation (Curtis, 2016), 18 2005), 12A Senna (Kapadia, 2010), PG-13  The Arbor (Barnard, UK, 2010), 15 We Come As Friends (Sauper, 2014) 18  Stories We Tell (Polley, Canada, 2012), 12A Buena Vista Social Club (Wenders, 1999), U  20,000 Days on Earth (Forsyth and Pollard, UK, 2014), Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982), PG 15  Amy (Kapadia, UK, 2015), 15

Section C: Film movements - Silent cinema  Strike (Eisenstein, USSR, 1924), 15 Any Chaplin film  Sunrise (Murnau, US, 1927), U Any Buster Keaton film  Spies (Lang, Germany, 1928), PG Any Laurel and Hardy film  Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, USSR, 1928), U and A Propos de Nice (Vigo, France, 1930), U. The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922) Night of the Hunter (Laughton, 1955) The Artist (Hazanavicius, 2011), PG-13

Section D: Film movements - Experimental film (1960- 2000) Any Tarantino film  Vivre sa vie (Godard, France, 1962), 15 Natural Born Killers (Stone, 1994), 18  Daisies (Chytilova, Czechoslovakia, 1965), 15 and Saute Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino, 1992), 18 ma ville (Akerman, Belgium, 1968), 15  Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, US, 1994), 18  Fallen Angels (Wong, Hong Kong, 1995), 15  Timecode (Figgis, US, 2000), 15.

Component 3: Creative Project

The following short films all on YouTube: Wasp (Arnold, UK, 2003) 24' Meshes in the Afternoon (Deren, US, 1946) 14’ High Maintenance (Van, Germany, 2006) 09' La Jetée (Marker, France, 1962) 28’ Connect (Abrahams, UK, 2010) 05' La Ricotta (Pasolini, Italy, 1963) 34’ Night Fishing (Park, South Korea, 2011) 33’ The Grandmother (Lynch, US, 1970) 34’ Pitch Black Heist (Maclean, UK, 2012) 13’ A Girl’s Own Story (Campion, Australia, 1987) 26’ Curfew (Christensen, US, 2012) 19' Elephant (Clarke, UK, 1989) 39’ Swimmer (Ramsay, UK, 2012) 18’ The Wrong Trousers (Park, UK, 1993) 30' The Gunfighter (Kissack, US, 2014) 09' When the Day Breaks (Forbis/Tilby, Canada, 1999) 09' Stutterer (Cleary, UK, 2015) 12' Also: https://www.shortoftheweek.com/ About a Girl (Percival, UK, 2001) 09' The Silent Child (Overton, 2017) The Phone Call (Kirkby, 2013), 12