Film History Viewing List
Watch at least three of these during the term and write a 1-2 page response.
After that, each flm and response will count for 10 points extra credit.
Key to abbreviations: d=directed by; b/o=based on an original work by; s=starring;
p=produced by
The Blue Angel (1930, German) d:Josef von
8 1/2 (1963, Italian) d:Federico Fellini Sternberg s:Marlene Dietrich
42nd Street (1933) d:Lloyd Bacon The Blue Kite (1993, Chinese) d:Tian
The 400 Blows (1959, French) d:François Zhuangzhuang
Truffault Bonnie and Clyde (1968) d: Arthur Penn
35 Up (1991, British, documentary) Le Boucher (1969, French) d:Claude Chabrol
d:Michael Apted Breathless (1960, French) d:Jean-Luc Godard
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) d: Stanley s:Jean-Paul Belmondo
Kubrick Bride of Frankenstein (1935) d:James Whale
Afterlife (1999, Japanese) d: Kore-eda s:Boris Karloff
Hirokazu Bringing Up Baby (1938) d:Howard Hawks
Age of Innocence (1993) d:Martin Scorsese s:Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn
b/o Edith Wharton Casablanca (1942) d:Michael Curtiz
Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972, German) s:Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
d:Werner Herzog Children of Heaven (1998, Iranian) d: Majid
Ali Zaoua, Prince of the Streets (2000, Arabic) Majidi
d: Nabil Ayouch Children of Paradise (1945, French) d:Marcel
Alice (1992, animation) d: Jan Svankmajer Carne
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) d:Lewis The Chungking Express (1994, Cantonese) d:
Milestone b/o:Erich Maria Remarque Wong Kar-Wai
Alphaville (1966, French) d: Jean-Luc Godard City Lights (1931, silent) d:Charlie Chaplin
American Dream (1991, documentary) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1979) d:
d:Barbara Kopple Steven Spielberg
The American Friend (1977, German) d:Wim The Color of Paradise (2000, Iranian) d: Majid
Wenders Majidi
American Graffti (1973) d: George Lucas The Conversation (1973) d: Francis Copolla
Annie Hall (1977) d: Woody Allen Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) d:Michael Gordon
Andrei Rublev (1965, Russian) d:Andrei Cyrano de Bergerac (1990, French) d:Jean-Paul
Tarkovsky Rappeneau s:Gerard Depardieu
The Apostle (1997) d/s: Robert Duvall The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) d:Robert
Army of Shadows (1968) d: Jean-Pierre Wise
Melville Death of a Salesman (1986) s:Dustin Hoffman
The Asphalt Jungle (1954) d: John Huston b/o:Arthur Miller
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987, French) d: Louis The Defant Ones (1958) d:Stanley Kramer
Malle s:Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier
L’Avventura (1960, Italian) d:Michelangelo Diary of a Country Priest (1950, French)
Antonioni d:Robert Bresson
Babe 2: Pig in the City (1999) d: George Miller Don’t Look Back (1967, documentary) d:D.A.
Babette’s Feast (1988, Danish) d:Gabriel Axel Pennebaker s:Bob Dylan
b/o:Isak Dinesen Double Indemnity (1944) d:Billy Wilder
Badlands (1973) d: Terrence Malick b/o:James M. Cain
Baraka (1992, documentary) d:Ron Fricke Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) d:Rouben
Best Years of Our Lives (1946) d:William Mamoulian b/o:Robert Louis Stevenson
Wyler Dr. Strangelove (1964) d:Stanley Kubrick
Bicycle Thief (1949, Italian) d:Vittorio de Sica Dreams (1990, Japanese) d:Akira Kurasawa
Black Narcissus (1946, British) d:Michael Duck Soup (1933) s:The Marx Brothers
Powell/Emeric Pressburger s:Deborah Eight Men Out (1988) d:John Sayles
Kerr Fantasia (1940) p:Walt Disney
Black Orpheus (1959, Brazilian) d:Marcel The Firemen’s Ball (1968, Czech) d:Milos
Camus Forman
Blood Wedding (1986, Spanish, dance) Freaks (1932) d: Tod Browning
d:Carlos Saura The Freshman (1925, silent) s:Harold Lloyd
Gallipoli (1981, Australian ) d:Peter Weir Life is Beautiful (1998, Italian) d:Roberto
s:Mel Gibson and Mark Lee Benigni
The General (1926, silent) s:Buster Keaton Listen to Britain (1942, British) d:Humphrey
The Glass Menagerie (1987) d:Paul Newman Jennings
b/o:Tennessee Williams Love and Death (1975) d: Woody Allen
The Gleaners and I (2000, French) d: Agnes M (1931, German) d:Fritz Lang s:Peter Lorre
Varda The Magic Flute (1975, Swedish) d: Ingmar
The Gold Rush (1925, silent) d:Charlie Bergman
Chaplin The Magnifcent Ambersons (1943) d: Orson
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964, Welles
Italian) d: Pier Passolini Malcolm X (1992) d:Spike Lee
Grand Illusion (1937, French) d:Jean Renoir Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) d:Vincente
s:Jean Gabin Minelli s:Judy Garland
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) d:John Ford Metropolis (1927, German, silent) d:Fritz
b/o:John Steinbeck Lang
Grave of the Firefies (1988, Japanese) d: Isao Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1930) d:Frank
Takahata Capra s:James Stewart
Great Expectations (1946, British) d:David M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953, French) d:Jacques
Lean b/o:Charles Dickens Tati
Hamlet (1948, British) d:Laurence Olivier My Darling Clementine (1946) d:John Wayne
b/o:William Shakespeare s:Henry Fonda
Hamlet (1990) d:Franco Zeffrelli s:Mel My Father’s Glory; My Mother’s Castle (1991,
Gibson French) d:Yves Robert b/o:Marcel
Hamlet (1997) d:Kenneth Branagh Pagnol
A Hard Day’s Night (1964, British) d:Richard My Night At Maud’s (1969, French) d:Eric
Lester s:The Beatles Rohmer
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976, documentary) Nanook of the North (1922, silent,
d:Barbara Kopple documentary) d:Robert Flaherty
Henry V (1945, British) d:Laurence Olivier The Nasty Girl (1990, German) d:Michael
b/o:William Shakespeare Verhoeven
Henry V (1990, British) d:Kenneth Branagh Nausicaa (1984, Japanese) d: Hayao Miyazaki
High Noon (1952) d:Fred Zinnemann s:Gary Night and Fog (1955, French, documentary)
Cooper and Grace Kelly d:Alain Resnais
High School (1969, documentary) d:Fred Night of the Hunter (1955) d:Charles
Wiseman Laughton
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959, French) Nosferatu (1922, German, silent) d:F.W.
d:Alain Resnais Murnau
His Girl Friday (1940) d:Howard Hawks Nosferatu (1974, German) d: Herzog
s:Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell Notorious (1946) d:Alfred Hitchcock s:Cary
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) d: Coen Bros. Grant and Ingrid Bergman
Il Postino (1995, Italian) d:Michael Radford The Offcial Story (1995, Argentina) d:Luis
s:Massimo Troisi Puenzo
In the Mood for Love (2000, Cantonese) d: Oliver Twist (1948, British) d:David Lean
Wong Kar-Wai b/o:Charles Dickens
It Happened One Night (1934) d:Frank Capra On the Waterfront (1954) d:Elia Kazan
s:Clark Gable s:Marlon Brando
Jean de Florette; Manon des Sources (1987, Ordet (1954, Danish) d:Carl Dreyer
French) d:Claude Berri Otello (1986, Italian, opera) d:Franco
The Killing (1950) d: Stanley Kubrick Zeffrelli s:Placido Domingo
King Lear (1984, British) s:Laurence Olivier Pather Panchali (1955, Indian) d:Satyajit Ray
Knife in the Water (1962, Polish) d:Roman Prelude to War (1942, documentary) p:U.S.
Polanski Government d:Frank Capra
The Last Laugh (1924, German, silent) d:F.W. Raise the Red Lantern (1991, Chinese)
Murnau s:Emil Jannings d:Zhang Yimou
Lavender Hill Mob (1951, British) d:Charles Rashoman (1951, Japanese) d:Akira
Crichton s:Alec Guinness Kurosawa
Lawrence of Arabia (1962, British) d:David Red River (1948) d:Howard Hawks s:John
Lean s:Peter O’Toole Wayne
The Road Home (2000) d: Zhang Yimou b/o:Graham Greene
Rome, Open City (1946, Italian) d:Roberto Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Rossellini (1994, Canadian) d:François Gerard
Romeo and Juliet (1968, British) d:Franco Throne of Blood (1960, Japanese) d: Akira
Zeffrelli Kurosawa, Macbeth adaptation
Room at the Top (1959, British) d:Jack Clayton Tokyo Story (1953, Japanese) d:Yasujiro Ozu
A Room with a View (1984) d: James Ivory To Live (1995, Chinese) d:Zhang Yimou
Rules of the Game (1939, French) d:Jean s:Gong Li
Renoir Tom Jones (1963, British) d:Tony Richardson
Safety Last (1923, silent) s:Harold Lloyd Top Hat (1935) s:Fred Astaire and Ginger
Le Samourai (1971, French) d: Jean-Pierre Rogers
Melville Touch of Evil (1958) d:Orson Welles
Scarface (1932) d:Howard Hawks La Traviata (1991, Italian, opera) d:Franco
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) d:Steven Zeffrelli s:Placido Domingo and Teresa
Zaillian Stratas
The Searchers (1956) d:John Ford s:John The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948) d:John
Wayne Huston s:Humphrey Bogart
Seven Samurai (1955, Japanese) d: Akira Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978, Italian)
Kurosawa d:Ermanno Olmi
The Seventh Seal (1965, Swedish) d:Ingmar Triumph of the Will (1939, German,
Bergman Documentary) d:Leni Riefenstahl
Shadowlands (1993) d: Richard Attenburough Ugetsu (1953, Japanese) d:Kenji Mizoguchi
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, French) d:
Ukrainian) d:Sergei Parajanov Jacques Demy
Shop on Main Street (1965, Czech) d:Jan The Vanishing (1988, French/Dutch) d:
Kadar George Sluizer
Singin’ In the Rain (1952) d:Stanley Donen Vanya on 42nd Street (1993) d:Louis Malle
and Gene Kelly b/o:Anton Chekhov
Some Like It Hot (1959) d:Billy Wilder Vertigo (1958) d:Alfred Hitchcock s:James
Sparrows (1926, silent) d:William Beaudine Stewart
s:Mary Pickford Viridiana (1961, Spanish) d:Luis Bunuel
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973, Spanish) White Heat (1949) d:Raoul Walsh s:James
d:Victor Erice Cagney
Spirited Away (2002, Japanese) d: Hayao Wild Strawberries (1957, Swedish) d:Ingmar
Miyazaki Bergman
Stalker (1984, Russian) d: Andrei Tarkovsky The Wind (1928, silent) d:Victor Sjöstrom
Stagecoach (1939) d:John Ford s:John Wayne s:Lillian Gish
La Strada (1954, Italian) d:Federico Fellini Wings of Desire (1988, German) d:Wim
Streetcar Named Desire (1951) d:Elia Kazan Wenders
s:Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh Wizard of Oz (1939) d:Victor Fleming s:Judy
Strictly Ballroom (1992) d: Baz Luhrmann Garland
Sunrise (1927, silent) d. F.W. Murnau Yi Yi (2000, Mandarin) d: Edward Yang
Sunset Blvd. (1950) d:Billy Wilder Z (1963, French) d:Costa Gavras
A Taste of Cherry (1997, Iranian) d: Abbas
Kiarostami
Tender Mercies (1979) d: Bruce Beresford, s: Film Resources:
Robert Duvall
The Ten Commandments (1923, silent and The internet movie database:
1956) d:Cecil B. De Mille www.imdb.com
The Thief of Bagdad (1924, silent) d:Raoul
Walsh s:Douglas Fairbanks The All Movie Guide:
The Thin Blue Line (1988) d: Errol Morris www.allmovie.com
The Third Man (1949, British) d:Carol Reed
