Selected Films

Over the years, numerous students have asked me to recommend a selection of films that, in my opinion, the well-informed film student should see at some point.  So here it is, an obviously far from exhaustive compilation.  Some of the films are quite influential, some are wholly idiosyncratic, some are one of a kind, some are the visual equivalent of comfort food, and some I like for purely subjective reasons. I have not listed here the directors or release dates to these films. Follow the hyperlinks I have provided to learn more about them.

Enjoy,

Dr. Gonder

FEATURE-LENGTH FILMS

Rashômon      Shichinin no samurai       Sjunde inseglet, Det

Cet obscur objet du désir       M        8 1/2

Metropolis        Blade Runner        Dr. Strangelove: or How I

Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

A Clockwork Orange        Pulp Fiction        She's Gotta Have It

Do the Right Thing        Triumph des Willens       Birth of a Nation

Modern Times        The General        Citizen Kane  

The Searchers        The Quiet Man        Blechtrommel, Die

Sunna no onna        Peeping Tom        Repulsion

Double Indemnity        The Manchurian Candidate        High Noon

A Face in the Crowd        A Touch of Evil        On the Waterfront

Swimming to Cambodia        Top Hat        Gold Diggers of 1935  

Adam's Rib        McCabe and Mrs. Miller        Bonnie and Clyde

The Graduate        Casablanca        Being John Malkovich

Grande illusion, La        Blazing Saddles        Fargo

His Girl Friday        Chicken Run        Mulan

The Man With a Movie Camera        Fantasia        Amarcord

Monty Python and the Holy Grail        Raging Bull        Annie Hall

An American in Paris        The Purple Rose of Cairo        Rear Window

Apocalypse Now        The Godfather        Vacances de M. Hulot, Les

A Night at the Opera        Night of the Living Dead        Down By Law

Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto        Orlando        

The Sands of Iwo Jima    Prospero's Books        Short Cuts        The Steel Helmet

The Wizard of Oz        The Truman Show        Track 29

12 Angry Men        High Plains Drifter        À bout de souffle

Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis       Année dernière à Marienbad, L'        Greed

Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes       The Wild Bunch        Soshun

Blowup        Mitt liv som hund       Some Like It Hot

Strada, La         Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La       Blue Velvet

Kiss of the Spider Woman        North By Northwest        Network

Silence of the Lambs        Vita è bella, La       All That Jazz

When Harry Met Sally        Ken Burn's The Civil War        Trainspotting

Not a Love Story        The Gold Rush        Saving Private Ryan

2001, A Space Odyssey        Bob Roberts        Pink Flamingos

Koyaanisqatsi        Lola rennt        Frida        Memento        Garden State