film list

25 films Amy Taubin recommends that every student see:

REQUIRED FOR VIDEO STUDENTS & AMY TAUBIN’S CLASS

NOTE FROM FACULTY AMY TAUBIN: These lists are impossible to make but if you

see every one of these films, you will have a start at being film literate. I’ve tried to

include films that are not only “great” but have been influential on film history. I also

have tried to include a range of national cinemas, a few documentaries and a few avantgarde

films. After the first seven films, the rest of the list is not in any particular order.

All the films should be available from Netflix except

Jeanne Dielman; Flaming

Creatures; Two or Three Things I Know About Her

(Kim’s video or substitute Godard’s

Vivre Sa Vie

and La Chinoise – both not one or the other); Voyage in Italy is in Kim’s in

European region DVD only; selections from Warhol’s

ScreenTests will undoubtedly

show up repeatedly in galleries now that the

Andy Warhol Screen Tests: Catalog

Raisonne

has been published.

1.

Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir)

2.

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)

3.

Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson)

4.

Man With a Movie Camera (Vertov)

5.

Two or Three Things I know About Her Jean-Luc Godard)

6.

Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman)

7.

Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa)

8.

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)

9.

Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder)

10.

Tokyo Story (Ozu)

11.

Pather Panchali (S.Ray)

12.

Xala (Ousmene Sembene)

13.

Voyage in Italy (Roberto Rossellini)

14.

The Puppet Master (Hou Hsiao-Hsien

15.

Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

16.

Shoah (Claude Lanzmann)

17.

Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)

18.

Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)

19.

Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith)

20.

Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade)

21.

Screentests (Andy Warhol)

22.

Videodrome (David Cronenberg)

23.

Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)

24.

A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)

25.

Vampyr (Carl Dreyer)26.
Sunrise (Murnau)