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.

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Jean-Luc Godard: An Introduction
Jean Luc Godard does things the way he wants them. He’s his own man. Nobody, not even his loyal audience sway him. He makes movies his way, no other way. Cinema meant so much to Godard, he viewed the course with which it would take with horror and derision. This is the guy who debunked Spielberg as “not very good”. An early apostle to the cine clubs that proliferated Paris in the fifties, he made contact with fellow devotees Truffaut, …

“I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between.” – Francois Truffaut
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For some American audiences the first introduction to Francois Truffaut was his turn as Claude Lacombe in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. For others, who had followed his work in France, he was the writer, …