RECOMMENDED VIEWING
The following films will be used during the course as teaching tools for analysis or as references
for our own production. Clips will be shown and discussed in class, but the list is provided here for
your own extra-curricular viewing. Most of these films are available at the Media Center in Odegaard Library (OGL).
- • La Cite des Enfants Perdues (The city of lost children),
Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, 1995,
OGL Media Center, DVD CTHV 013
- • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Mel Stuart, 1971, OGL Media Center VR WHV 138
- • E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg, 1982, OGL Media Center VR MCA 82864
- • L’Atalante, Jean Vigo, 1934, OGL Media Center VR NFV 022
- • Zero de conduite (Zero for Conduct), Jean Vigo, 1933, Scarecrow Video has it…
- • The Goonies, Richard Donner, 1985
- • Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly, 2001, OGL Media Center DVD TCFHE 048
- • Brazil, Terry Gilliam, 1985, OGL Media Center DVD…
- • Time Bandits, Terry Gilliam, 1981, OGL Media Center VR ABE 1567
- • Landscape in the Mist, Theo Angelopoulos, 1988, Scarecrow has it…
- • Eternity and a Day, Theo Angelopoulos, 1998, OGL Media Center VR NYV 73501
- • The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939, OGL Media Center DVD …also on VHS: VR MGM 301656
- • Return to Oz, Walter Murch, 1985
- • The Neverending Story, Wolfgang Peterson, 1984
- • Finding Neverland, OGL Media DVD MIRA 015
- • To Kill a Mockingbird, Robert Mulligan, 1962, OGL Media Center DVD UNIV 006
- • Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton, 1990, OGL Media Center DVD TCFHE 037
- • The White Dove (Holubice), Frantisek Vlacil, c.1960, Scarecrow has it in their Czech section
- • Les Mistons, Francois Truffaut, 1958, Scarecrow has it…
- • Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 blows), Francois Truffaut, 1959, OGL Media Center DVD FOXL 032
- • Anything you can get your hands on by Georges Méliès, especially
A Trip to the Moon, OGL Media Center has a DVD The Magic of Méliès…
also OGL has the DVD The Great Train Robbery and other Primary Works…
- • The DVD set, Rare Treasures from American Film Archives, available in
OGL Media Center, DVD IEF 051… especially noteworthy is the short Princess Nicotine,
or The Smoke Fairy, on volume 1. Also check More Treasures from American Film Archives, DVD NFPF 001
- • The Thief of Bagdad, Douglas Fairbanks, Raoul Walsh, 1924, OGL Media Center DVD IEF 052
- • The Thief of Bagdad, Alexander Korda, Michael Powell, 1940, Scarecrow has it...
- • La Belle et La Bete, Jean Cocteau, 1946, OGL Media Center VR HOV 140
- • The Search, Fred Zinnemann, 1948, Scarecrow has it
- • The Saddest Music in the World, Guy Maddin, 2003, Scarecrow has it...
- • Cowards Bend the Knee, Guy Maddin, 2003, not yet released, but coming soon...
- • Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, Guy Maddin, 1997, Scarecrow has it...
- • Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like A Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity, Guy Maddin, 1995,
and any other short films by Guy Maddin as well… These are a little tought to find…
- • Leolo, Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992, Scarecrow has it...
- • Mon Oncle, Jacques Tati, 1958, OGL Media Center DVD…
- • Playtime, Jacques Tati, 1967, OGL Media Center DVD CONT 001
- • The Steamroller and the Violin, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1960 (this was a student film!), OGL Media Center DVD FAC 010
- • Ivan’s Childhood, aka My Name is Ivan, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962, Scarecrow has it...
- • The Mirror (Zerkalo), Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975, Scarecrow…
- • Rebel Without A Cause, Nicholas Ray, 1955, OGL Media Center DVD WHV 045
- • To Live (Huozhe), Zhang Yimou, 1994, OGL Media Center has it on vhs
- • Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean, 1962, DVD CTHV 115
- • Great Expectations, David Lean, 1946, OGL Media Center, DVD CRIT 004
- • Oliver Twist, David Lean, 1948, Scarecrow…
- • Sunrise, A Song of two Humans, F.W. Murnau, 1927, Scarecrow…
- • Tabu, F.W. Murnau, 1931, OGL Media Center, DVD IEF 077
- • The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920, OGL Media Center DVD …
- • Vampyr, Carl Dreyer, 1932, Scarecrow…
- • La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Carl Dreyer, 1928, OGL Media Center DVD…
- • Les Vampires, Louis Feuillade, 1911
- • Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas, 1996
- • The Spirit of the Beehive, Victor Erice, OGL Media Center VR HOV 147
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