Movies Filmmakers Expect Everyone To Have Seen

[Loren Simons]

Or meet a new group of film school friends. :beer:
I have about ten friends that are going to a few different local film schools, and we have been making movies for quite sometime now together, and they say they want to keep making movies despite the fact they are in college now and im still in highschool. So now that i'll hopefully be making alot of new "film buff" people, what are some movies i should watch to avoid that situation that everyone hates "uhh..yeah..that part was good" hahaha

[seunosewa]

Change your title to "movies filmmakers expect everyone to have seen".

[Loren Simons]

good idea =]

[Dingos8mybaby]

Watch anything and everything you can. Maybe you could start with the IMDB Top 250, then work through the 'masters':

25 Most Influential Directors of All-Time (ranked) - MovieMaker Magazine (http://www.moviemaker.com/issues/47/25.html) 1. Alfred Hitchcock 14. John Cassavetes 2. D.W. Griffith 15. Billy Wilder 3. Orson Welles 16. Jean Renoir 4. Jean-Luc Godard 17. Francis Ford Coppola 5. John Ford 18. Howard Hawks 6. Stanley Kubrick 19. Francois Truffaut 7. Sergei Eisenstein 20. Buster Keaton 8. Charlie Chaplin 21. Fritz Lang 9. Federico Fellini 22. John Huston 10. Steven Spielberg 23. Woody Allen 11. Martin Scorsese 24. Luis Bunuel 12. Akira Kurosawa 25. Ernst Lubitsch 13. Ingmar Bergman
Obviously, this list is subjective, but it's a good start. As for me, I've never even seen 'The Godfather', or 'Schindler's List', but hey, I'm not a film buff. Hope this helps.

[abraham]

testament of dr. mabuse!!! badass.

[Nathyn]

You'll learn about some of these guys in film school anyway such as Alfred Hitchcock, D.W. Griffith, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, Francis Ford Coppola, Sergei Eisenstein, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini and probably Martin Scorsese too. My advice, try to stay woke during Battleship Potemkin, it's "good learnin'" also try to see "Règle du jeu, La" (Rules of the Game) it's a fun film, great story, keeps your interest, very modern. "Once Upon A Time in the West" is a must although it's very long.

-Nate

[Batutta]

I think it's pretty obvious which films you should see past 1970, so I'll only go up until then. Here's some you should see, although it's not mandatory you like them--

Citizen Kane
Seven Samurai
North By Northwest
Lawrence of Arabia
Breathless (Godard)
The 400 Blows
La Dolce Vita
The Searchers
Dr. Strangelove
2001
Wages of Fear

[Billy Pilgrim]

I would add John Cassavetes' Shadows to that list. One of the films that paved the way for American independent film.