I feel for someone my age I've seen a lot of the more well-known classics and whatnot, but I really want to broaden what I have seen. This list is made for me to finally experience some of the foundations of film today. I have no rules as to what it is or when it was released. And this list is meant to always change. I'm sure I'm going to find more films to add to it, or I will be recommended some on here.
These lists basically come from my notes from my History of Cinema class I took freshman year. I'm taking some of the most popular directors my professor focused on and some I've heard about before, and voila, this is my super awesome Film Challenge List.
If you have any recommendations, please let me know! Either leave a comment or email me at torrieg09@gmail.com.
American
Alfred Hitchcock
- The 39 Steps (1935)
- Rebecca (1940)
- Notorious (1946)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Vertigo (1958)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Psycho (1960)
Arthur Penn
- The Miracle Worker (1962)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Barry Levinson
- Rain Man (1988)
Billy Wilder
- Some Like it Hot (1959)
Buster Keaton
- The General (1927)
Charlie Chaplin
- The Tramp (1915)
- A Dog's Life (1918)
- The Kid (1921)
- City Lights (1931)
- Modern Times (1936)
David Lean
- Brief Encounter (1946)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
David Lynch
- Blue Velvet (1986)
Don Siegel
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
D.W. Griffith
- Intolerance (1916)
Elia Kazan
- On the Waterfront (1954)
Francis Ford Coppola
- The Godfather (1972)
- The Godfather, Part II (1974)
- The Godfather, Part III (1990)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
Frank Borzage
· Secrets (1924)
· A Farewell to Arms (1932)
· The Shining Hour (1938)
Frank Capra
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Arsenic and Old Lace(1944)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
George Cukor
- Little Women (1933)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- A Star is Born (1954)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
Howard Hawks
- Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Red River (1948)
John Ford
- My Darling Clementine (1946)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- The Searchers (1956)
John Huston
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
- The African Queen (1951)
Leo McCarey
- Duck Soup (1933)
- An Affair to Remember (1957)
Martin Scorsese
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Goodfellas (1990)
Mel Brooks
· Blazing Saddles (1974)
· Silent Movie (1976)
Michael Curtiz
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
- The sea Hawk (1940)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Mike Nichols
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? (1966)
Preston Sturges
- The Lady Eve (1941)
- Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Quentin Tarantino
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
Ridley Scott
- Alien (1979)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Gladiator (2000)
Roman Polanski
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- Chinatown (1974)
- The Pianist (2002)
Ron Howard
- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Stanley Kubrick
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Lolita (1962)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Steven Speilberg
- Schindler's List (1993)
Tom Hooper
- The King's Speech (2010)
Walt Disney
· Steamboat Willie (1928)
· Fantasia (1940)
· Song of the South (1946)
· The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
· 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Woody Allen
· Take the Money and Run (1969)
· Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Foreign
Bernardo Bartolucci
· The Conformist (1970)
· Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Fritz Lang
· The Big Heat (1953)
· While the City Sleeps (1956)
Hayao Miyazaki
- Castle in the Sky (1986)
- My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
- Whisper of the Heart (1955)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
Sergei Eisenstein
· Battleship Potemkin (1925)
· Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)
Werner Herzog
- Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
- Nosferatu the Vampire (1979)
Indie
John Cassavetes
· Shadows (1961)
· Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
