Films I Feel I Need to See Before I Can Finally Direct a Film of my Own:
Submitted by TonyKotlarek on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 05:21
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- Godard:
- Le Petit Soldat(1960) (the little soldier)
- Vivre sa Vie (1963) (my life to live)
- A Married Woman (1964)
- Pierrot le Fou(1965) (pierrot goes wild)
- Masculin Feminin (1966)
- 2 or 3 Things I know About Her (1966)
- La Chinoise (1967)
- Weekend (1967)
- Tout va Bien (1972) (all’s well)
- Renoir:
- La Chienne (1931) (the bitch)
- Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932)
- Crime of Monsier Lange (1935)
- Partie de Campagne (1936) (a day in the country)
- La Grand Illusion (1937)
- La Bete Humaine (1938) (the human beast)
- The River (1952)
- Ozu:
- I was Born But (1932)
- Late Spring (1949)
- Early Summer (1951)
- Floating Weeds (1959)
- Bresson:
- Diary of a Country Priest (1950)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- Pickpocket (1959)
- Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
- Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
- L’Argent (1983) (money)
- Bergman:
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
- Wild Strawberries (1957)
- The Virgin Spring (1959)
- Through a Glass Darkly (1962)
- Persona (1966)
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
- Fanny and Alexander (1982)
- Fellini:
- I Vitelloni (1953) (the young and the passionate)
- La Strada (1954) (The Road)
- Nights of Cabiria (1957)
- La Dolce Vita (1960)
- Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
- Amarcord (1973)
- Vigo:
- Zero for Conduct (1933)
- L’Atalante (1934)
- Mizoguchi:
- Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (1939)
- Life of Oharu (1952)
- Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) (tales of Ugetsu)
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
- Bunuel:
- Un Chien Andalou (1928) (an andulusian dog)
- L’Age D’Or (1930) (Age of Gold, the golden age)
- Los Olvidados (1950) (the forgotten one, the young and the damned)
- Viridiana (1961)
- The Exterminating Angel (1962)
- Tristana (1970)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
- Ray, Satyajit:
- Pather Panchali (1955)
- Aparajito (1956)
- The Music Room (1958)
- World of Apu (1959)
- Charulata (1964)
- Truffaut:
- Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
- Jules et Jim (1961)
- Day For Night (1973)
- Kurosawa:
- Ikiru (1952)
- Throne of Blood (1957)
- The Hidden Fortress (1958)
- Yojimbo (1961)
- Red Beard (1965)
- Dersu Uzala (1975)
- Kagemusha (1980)
- Welles:
- The Stranger (1946)
- Mr. Arkadin (1955)
- Chimes at Midnight (1966)
- F for Fake (1975)
- Wilder:
- Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Antonioni:
- La’Aventura (1960)
- La Notte (1961)
- Tarkovsky:
- Andrei Rublev (1966)
- Solaris (1972)
- The Mirror (1976)
- The Stalker (1979)
- Visconti:
- Ossessione (1943)
- Senso (1954)
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
- The Leopard (1963)
- Herzog:
- Stroszek (1977)
- Hawks:
- Scarface (1932)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- Rohmer:
- Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
- Dreyer:
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Vampyr (1932)
- Day of Wrath (1943)
- Ordet (1955)
- Gertrud (1964)
- Carne:
- Children of Paradise (1946)
- Bertolucci:
- The Conformist (1970)
- Tati:
- Mon Oncle (1953)
- Playtime (1967)
- Ophuls:
- Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948)
- Madame De… (1953)
- Griffith:
- Intolerance (1916)
- Broken Blossoms (1919)
- Way Down East (1920)
- Resnais:
- Night and Fog (1955)
- Hiroshima Mon’Amour (1959)
- Von Trier:
- The Idiots (1998)
I keep telling people some day I want to make a life change and attempt to direct a film. However, I do not feel that I would be a complete film scholar capable of doing so until I finally complete seeing these films. As I go along, I will highlight what I have been able to see.