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T EASLEY AND W ILDER’ S O NE H UNDRED G REAT F ILMS FOR A DOLESCENTS: A NNOTATED F ILMOGRAPHY

Ten Best Films About Coming of Age Alan and Naomi (Sterling Van Wagenen, 1991, PG, 95 min.) Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gene Saks, 1987, PG-13, 110 min.) Crooklyn (, 1994, PG-13, 112 min.) Dark Horse ( Hemmings, 1992, PG, 95 min.) Empire of the Sun (, 1987, PG, 153 min.) Hope and Glory (Great Britain, John Boorman, 1987, PG-13, 118 min.) King of the Hill (Steven Soderberg, 1993, PG-13, 102 min.) The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (Canada, Allan A. Goldstein, 1988, G, 92 min.) 7 Up (Great Britain, , 1985, NR, 136 min.) This Is My Life (Nora Ephron, 1992, PG, 94 min.)

Ten Best Films About Families Breaking Away (, 1979, PG, 100 min.) Clara’s Heart (, 1988, PG-13, 108 min.) The Great Santini (Lewis John Carlino, 1979, PG, 116 min.) (Bruce Beresford, 1993, PG-13, 105 min.) A River Runs Through It (, 1992, PG, 123 min.) Running on Empty (, 1988, PG-13, 116 min.) Unstrung Heroes (Diane Keaton, 1995, PG, 94 min.) The War (John Avnet, 1995, PG-13, 126 min.) What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (Lasse Hallstrom, 1993, PG-13, 118 min.) A World Apart (, 1988, PG, 135 min.)

Ten Best Films About Belonging Addams Family Values (Barry Sonnenfeld, PG-13, 94 min.) Angus (Patrick Read Johnson, 1995, PG-13, 87 min.) Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth, 1988, PG, 112 min.) Lucas (David Seltzer, 1986, PG-13, 100 min.) Mask (Peter Bogdanovich, 1985, PG-13, 120 min.) My Bodyguard (Tony Bill, 1980, PG, 96 min.) Powder (Victor Salva, 1995, PG-13, 112 min.) Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955, NR, 111 min.) School Ties (Robert Mandel, 1992, PG-13, 110 min.) Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (Jim Abrahams, 1990, PG-13, 98 min.)

Ten Best Films About Dreams and Quests Chariots of Fire (England, Hugh Hudson, 1981, PG, 123 min.) The Cure (1995, Peter Horton, PG-13, 99 min.) The Gods Must Be Crazy (Botswana, Jamie Uys, 1981, PG, 108 min.) Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994, PG-13, 176 min.) Hoosiers (David Anspaugh, 1986, PG, 114 min.) The Journey of Natty Gann (Jeremy Kagan, 1985, PG, 101 min.) The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Great Britain, Tony Richardson, 1962, NR, 104 min.) Rudy (David Anspaugh, 1993, PG 112 min.) Stand and Deliver (Ramon Menendez, 1988, PG, 105 min.) Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (Steve Miner, 1991, G, 89 min.)

Ten Best Films on Love and Romance Benny and Joon (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1993, PG, 98 min.) Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995, PG-13, 97 min.) Gregory’s Girl (Scotland, Bill Forsyth, 1981, NR, 87 min.) The Man in the Moon (Robert Mulligan, 1991, PG-13, 99 min.) My American Cousin (Canada, , 1985, PG, 94 min.) My Brilliant Career (Australia, , 1979, G, 102 min.) A Room with a View (, 1986, NR, 117 min.) Sitting in Limbo (Canada, John N. Smith, 1986, PG, 95 min.) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France, Jacques Demy, 1964, NR, 90 min., in French) The Year My Voice Broke (Australia, , 1987, PG-13, 103 min.)

Ten Best Films for World Literature Courses Au Revoir les Enfants (France, Louis Malle, 1987, PG, 104 min., in French) Gallipoli (Australia, , 1981, PG, 111 min.) Inner Circle (U.S., [filmed in Russia], Andrei Konchalovsky, 1991, PG-13, 122 min., in English) The Last Emperor (U.S., [filmed in Beijing], , 1987, PG-13, 164 min., in English) My Life as a Dog (Sweden, Lasse Hallstrom, 1987, NR, 101 min., in Swedish) Musashi Miyamoto (Samurai I) (Japan, Hiroshi Inagaki, 1954, NR, 92 min., in Japanese) Pathfinder (Norway, Nils Gaup, 1988, NR, 88 min., in Lapp) The Return of Martin Guerre (France, Daniel Vigne, 1982, NR, 111 min., in French) Sarafina! (South Africa, Darrell James Roodt, 1992, PG-13, 98 min.) Sugar Cane Alley (Martinique, Euzhan Palcy, 1983, NR, 100 min., in French)

Ten Best Films for American Literature Courses The Age of Innocence (, 1993, PG, 138 min.) American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973, PG, 112 min.) Citizen Kane (, 1941, NR, 119 min.) Death of a Salesman (Volker Scholondorff, 1986, NR, 135 min.) Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (, 1964, NR, 93 min.) The Grapes of Wrath (, 1940, NR, 129 min.) The Little Foxes (, 1941, NR, 116 min.) Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992, PG-13, 201 min.) (Episodel, , 1977, NR, 99 min.) 1776 (Peter H. Hunt, 1972, G, 141 min.)

Ten Best Films of British Literature Anne of the Thousand Days (Hal B. Wallis, 1969, PG, 145 min.) Cromwell (Ken Hughes, 1970, G, 139 min.) The Dead (, 1987, PG, 82 min.) (, 1990, PG, 135 min.) A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinneman, 1966, G, 120 min.) Much Ado About Nothing (, 1993, PG-13, 110 min.) Sense and Sensibility (, 1995, PG, 136 min.) Tess (, 1980, PG, 170 min.) Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963, NR, 121 min.) Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, 1939, NR, 104 min.)

Ten Best Films for Genre Study Westerns High Noon (Fred Zinneman, 1952, NR, 85 min.) The Searchers (John Ford, 1956, NR, 119 min.) Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939, NR, 100 min.) Detective Films The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946, NR, 114 min.) The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941, NR, 101 min.) Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944, NR, 95 min.) Screwball Comedies Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938, NR 103 min.) The Philadelphia Story (, 1940, NR, 112 min.) Gangster Films Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931, NR, 85 min.) Scarface (Howard Hawks, 1931, NR, 93 min.)

Ten Best Films for Film Study American Cinema (The Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1994) Basic Film Terms: A Visual Dictionary (Sheldon Renan, 1970, NR, 14 min.) The (Russia, Sergei Eisenstein, 1935, NR, 75 min., silent with English titles) The Birth of a Nation (D. W. Griffith, 1915, NR, 175 min.) Cinema Paradiso (Italy, Giuseppe Tornatore, 1989, NR, 123 min., in Italian) The General (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman, 1927, NR, 78 min.) The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903, NR, 10 min.) Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1937, NR, 87 min.) Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952, NR, 103 min.) Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuels, and Arnold Glassman, 1993, NR, 95 min.)