Tuesday, June 28, 2005

"I AM Big! It's the Pictures That Got Small!"

This has nothing to do with Miz Norma Desmond or Sunset Blvd., just a list of movies, documentaries, and tv shows that the incoming students to the USC Film School are expected to see. I got this via Byrne who got it via FARB who got it via Gideonse Bible who in turn got it from Sarah. (Dang! Sounds like a social disease!)

Anyway, the ones I've seen have been bolded.

MOVIES:
A Hard Day's Night
African Queen

Alice in the Cities
Alien
All About Eve
Amadeus

American Friend, The
American Grafitti
Annie Hall
Apartment, The
Apocalype Now

Apu Trilogy, The
Band of Outsiders
Band Wagon, The
Barton Fink
Battle of Algiers
Being John Malkovich
Bicycle Thief, The
Big Lebowski, The
Black Orpheus
Blade Runner
Blow-Up

Blue
Blue Velvet
Bob le Flambeur
Bonnie and Clyde
Boyz 'n the Hood
Breathless
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Carrie
Casablanca

Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)
Chinatown
Cinema Paradiso
Citizen Kane
Clueless
Coal Miner's Daughter

Contempt
Conversation, The
Cool Hand Luke
Crimes And Misdemeanors
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Deep End, The
Dekalog
Dersu Uzala
Diner (half)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The
D.O.A. (1950)
Do The Right Thing
Dog Day Afternoon
Donnie Darko
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
8 1/2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Exorcist, The
Fallen Idol, The
Fight Club
Fish Called Wanda, A
Five Easy Pieces

Force of Evil
Godfather, The (I & II)
Gone With the Wind
Graduate, The

Grand Illusion
High and Low
High Noon
House of Sand and Fog
It Happened One Night
Jaws
Jules and Jim

King of Marvin Gardens, The
Kramer Vs. Kramer
La Jetée
La Strada
Lady Eve, The
Last Tango in Paris
(half of it)
L'Avventura
Lawrence of Arabia
Le Boucher
Le Samouraï
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Like Water for Chocolate
Man for All Seasons, A
Matrix, The
M*A*S*H
Memento
Midnight Cowboy

Miller's Crossing
Mother and the Whore, The
Morocco
Mulholland Drive
Nashville
Network

Night Moves
Ninotchka
Notorious
On the Waterfront
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Out of the Past
Paths of Glory
Patton
Point Blank
Producers, The
Pulp Fiction

Raging Bull
Ran
Rashomon
Rear Window

Red
Red Balloon, The
Repo Man

Rules of the Game
Safe
Searchers, The
Seven Samurai
Seventh Seal, The
Shanghai Express
Shock Corridor
Shoot the Piano Player
Silence of the Lambs
Stagecoach
Star is Born, A (1937)
Star Wars

Stranger Than Paradise
Sullivan's Travels
Sunset Boulevard
Talk to Her
(half)
Thelma and Louise
Third Man, The

Tin Drum, The
Touch of Evil
Traffic

Trouble in Paradise
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
Underworld U.S.A.
Unforgiven
Verdict, The
Vertigo

White
Wild Strawberries
Wizard of Oz, The
Written on the Wind
Woman in the Dunes
You Can Count on Me

DOCUMENTARIES:
Sorrow and the Pity, The
Harlan Country, USA
Dogtown and Z Boys
My Architect
Triumph of the Will
Hoop Dreams
Roger and Me
Super Size Me
Grey Gardens
Gimme Shelter
Crumb

Spellbound
Capturing the Friedmans
Riding Giants
The War Room
Don't Look Back
Brother's Keeper
What the Bleep do we know?
The Thin Blue Line
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser
Control Room
The Celluloid Closet
Sans Soleil
Poto and Cabengo

TV [available to Rent]:
Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
Sex and the City

Freaks and Geeks
All in the Family
MASH
Seinfeld

24
Arrested Development
Gilmore Girls
Good Times
The Wonder Years

The Shield
The Wire
The Office

I'm surprized that there's a few things left off the list. I wonder how the person who threw the list together made his/her choices? No silents, no Harold and Maude, no John Waters, no Monty Python?