Cinema Recommends:
Films Anyone Serious About Cinema Should See

The Audio-Visual Center polled the faculty of the Department of Cinema during Fall 1999 and asked them for "10 Films Anyone with a Cinema Degree Should Have Seen." The results included a wide variety of films; almost all are part of our collection. The core list received more than one vote each. The remaining films are listed as recommended films.

CORE LIST
SFSU AV # Title Director
60943 8 1/2 Fellini
65083 84885 Battleship Potemkin Eisenstein
60587 84086 Citizen Kane Welles
89347 A Man Escaped Bresson
65040 85196 La Jetee Marker
87689 Meshes of the Afternoon Deren
60558 The Searchers Ford
60936 Seven Samurai Kurosawa
60501 Vertigo

Hitchcock

61148 Wings of Desire Wenders
Recommended U.S. Films
SFSU AV # Title Director
60137 Alien Scott
1433 Castro Street Baillie
61835 Christopher Strong Arzner
84617

Nanook of the North

Flaherty
60359 Raging Bull Scorsese
61605 Stagecoach Ford
60244 61812 Star Wars Lucas
60364 Stardust Memories Allen
82446 Thin Blue Line

Morris

60216 West Side Story Robbins/ Wise
Recommended European Films
SFSU AV # Title Director
60891 Blow-Up Antonioni
87037 Breathless Godard
61386 84904 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Weine
89592 Closely Watched Trains Menzel
60459

The Conformist

Bertolucci
60337 Don't Look Now Roeg
  El Espiritu de la Colmena Erice
60894 The Grand Illusion Renoir
  Ivano Detstvo Tarkovsky
60946 The Bicycle Thief DeSica
60795 M Lang
61423 Earrings of Madame D...

Ophuls

84946 Orpheus Cocteau
84895 Passion of Jeanne D'Arc Dreyer
84896 Personna Bergman
65120 Pierrot le Fou Godard
60805 The 400 Blows Truffaut
61200 Rules of the Game Renoir
7002 Sans Soliel Marker
84897 Strike Eisenstein
Recommended Non-European, Non- U.S. Films
SFSU AV # Title Director
82586 Pather Panchali S. Ray
89798 The World of Apu S. Ray
89590 Aparijito S. Ray
87208 Late Spring Ozu
84921

Los Olvidados

Bunuel
87267 Rashomon Kurosawa
85120 Sankofa Gerima
82456 Tokyo Story Ozu
81036 Le Violon Rouge Girard

 

Hard to Find/Not on Video: Highly Recommended
Title Director
Bigger Than Life N. Ray
He Who Gets Slapped Sjostrom
Intimate Lighting Passer
Jeanne Dielmann

Ackerman

Ordet Dreyer
Somewhere in Europe (1947) Radvanyi
Sweetie Campion

Thanks to the Cinema Department for participating!

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