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[19 Jun 2011 | 45 Comments | ]
Top 10 films to watch before going to film school

Anybody who has attended university will know about reading lists. For first timers it can seem daunting. Before you start your classes the tutors send a list of recommended reading as an introduction to learning for the upcoming year of tuition. But when attending film school there’s another list attached – recommended viewing. Here are ten must-see movies before heading off to film school.

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gangster, People - Directors, Silent, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959, War, Western »

[1 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

MICHAEL MANN’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
2. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
5. Faust (Murnau, 1926)
6. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961)
7. My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946)
8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
9. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)
10. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah, 1969)

Action-Adventure, Drama, Gangster, Musicals, People - Directors, Romance, Science-Fiction, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959 »

[1 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

SAM MENDES’ TOP 10 FILMS
1. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
2. Fanny and Alexander (Bergman, 1982)
3. The Godfather Part II (Coppola, 1974)
4. The Piano (Campion, 1993)
5. The Red Shoes (Powell, Pressburger, 1948)
6. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
8. Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
9. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)
10. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939)

Action-Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gangster, Horror, People - Directors, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959, War, Western »

[31 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

JOE DANTE’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
2. City Lights (Chaplin)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini)
4. Les Enfants du paradis (Carné)
5. The Dead (Brakhage)
6. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
7. Psycho (Hitchcock)
8. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
9. The Searchers (Ford)
10. Once upon a Time in the West (Leone)

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Gangster, People - Directors, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959 »

[31 Oct 2009 | No Comment | ]

MILOS FORMAN’S TOP 10 FILMS

1. Amarcord (Fellini, 1973)
2. American Graffiti (Lucas, 1973)
3. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
4. City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
5. The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978)
6. Les Enfants du Paradis (Carné, 1945)
7. Giant (Stevens, 1956)
8. The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
9. Miracle in Milan (De Sica, 1951)
10. Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980)

Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Horror, People - Directors, Science-Fiction, Silent, Time Period - 1960 to 1979, Time Period - 1980s to Present, Time Period - Pre-1959 »

[31 Oct 2009 | One Comment | ]

JOHN BOORMAN’S TOP 10 FILMS
1. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954)
2. The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1956)
3. 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963)
4. That Obscure Object of Desire (Buñuel, 1977)
5. Dr Strangelove (Kubrick, 1963)
6. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941)
7. Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
8. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)
9. La Roue (Gance, 1923)
10. The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915)