Wednesday, August 29, 2012

My Personal List of Influential Films.


List of my Recommended Films:
CLASSICS (Italian Neorealism, French Poetic Realism, German Expressionism, Film Noir, etc.)
·         Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
·         Citizen Kane (Welles)
·         Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
·         The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wien)
·         Metropolis (Lang)
·         Rome Open City (Rosselini)
·         Nosferatu (Murnau)
·         Port of Shadows (Carne)
·         Grand Illusion (Renoir)
·         Casablanca (Curtiz)
·         The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
·         The Treasure of Sierra Madre (Huston)
·         Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
·         Double Indemnity (Wilder)
·         Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
·         Ikiru (Kurosawa)
·         Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
MODERNIST AND FRENCH NEW WAVE MOVEMENT                      
·         The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
·         Breathless (Godard)
·         La Notte (Antonioni)
·         L’Eclisse (Antonioni)
·         L’Avventura  (Antonioni)
All Time Favorites:
·         8 ½ (Fellini)
·         Psycho (Hitchcock)
·         Vertigo (Hitchcock)
·         North By Northwest (Hitchcock)
·         The Conformist (Bertolucci)
·         Last Tango In Paris (Bertolucci)
·         The Conversation (Coppola)
·         The Godfather I & II (Coppola)
·         Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
·         Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
·         Ben-Hur 1959 Version (Wyler)
·         Rear Window (Hitchcock)
·         Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
·         2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
·         A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
·         Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
·         The Shining (Kubrick)
·         Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick)
·         Blade Runner (Scott)
·         Alien (Scott)
·         Se7en (Fincher)
·         Fight Club (Fincher)
·         Memento (Nolan)
·         Insomnia (Nolan)
·         The Prestige (Nolan)
·         The Dark Knight Trilogy (Nolan)
·         Inception (Nolan)
·         Boogie Nights (Anderson)
·         Magnolia (Anderson)
·         Punch-Drunk Love (Anderson)
·         There Will Be Blood (Anderson)
·         Manhunter (Mann)
·         Heat (Mann)
·         Collateral (Mann)
·         The Insider (Mann)
·         All The President’s Men (Pakula)
·         Network (Lumet)
·         Chinatown (Polanski)
·         Ghost Writer (Polanski)
·         Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
·         Raging Bull (Scorsese)
·         Goodfellas (Scorsese)
·         The Departed (Scorsese)
·         One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (Forman)
·         Amadeus (Forman)
·         American Graffiti (Lucas)
·         Star Wars Trilogy IV, V, VI (Lucas)
·          Fallen Angels (Wong)
·         Chunking Express (Wong)
·         Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)
·         Schindler’s List (Spielberg)
·         Brazil (Gilliam)
·         Minority Report (Spielberg)
·         A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg)
·         Catch Me If You Can (Spielberg)
·         Blood Simple (Coen Brothers)
·         Fargo (Coen)
·         Miller’s Crossing (Coens)
·         On The Waterfront (Kazan)
·         The Big Lebowski (Coens)
·         No Country For Old Men (Coens)
·         Lost In Translation (Coppola)
·         28 Days Later (Boyle)
·         The French Connection (Friedkin)
·         American Beauty (Mendes)
·         The Usual Suspects (Singer)
·         L.A. Confidential (Hanson)
·         Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
·         Snatch (Ritchie)
·         The Shawshank Redemption (Darabont)
·         Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood)
·         Unforgiven (Eastwood)
·         Jerry Maguire (Crowe)
·         When Harry Met Sally (Reiner)
·         Drive (Refn)
·         City of God (Meirelles)
·         Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill)
·         Cache` (Haneke)
·         Good Will Hunting (Van Sant)
·         American Psycho (Harron)
·         Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
·         Adaptation (Jonze)
·         Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton, Faris)
·         Mulholland Drive (Lynch)

This huge list of films is one that I thought would enhance your viewing pleasures. To be quite honest, I am missing A LOT of films that I consider my favorites and I know I’ll regret not having them on here but it’s an exceptional list nonetheless.