If you need extra credit, you can watch a film from this list and then have a discussion with me about it.
- American Beauty (1999) Sam Mendes
- Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles
- Memento (2000) Christopher Nolan
- Moulin Rouge! (2001) Baz Luhrmann
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Joel & Ethan Coen
- The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
- Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese
- Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
- Crash (2004) Paul Haggis
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) Steven Spielberg
- The Gold Rush (1925) Charlie Chaplin
- Thelma & Louise (1991) Ridley Scott
- Do the Right Thing (1989) Spike Lee
- Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood
- Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
- This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) Kirby Dick
- The Big Short (2015) Adam McKay
- Mad Max Fury Road (2015) – George Miller
- Spotlight (2015) Tom McCarthy
- 12 Years a Slave (2014) – Steve McQueen
- Gravity (2014) – Alfonso Cuarón
- 20 Feet from Stardom (2014) – Morgan Neville
- Aaron Schwartz: The Internet’s Own Boy – Brian Knappenberger
- Searching for Sugarman (2012) – Mark Bendjelloul
- Man on Wire (2008) – James Marsh
- Jesus Camp (2006) Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
- Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott
- Gladiator (2000) Ridley Scott
- True Romance (1993) Tony Scott
- The Matrix (1999) Wachowski siblings
- Interstellar (2014) Christopher Nolan
- Amy (2015) Asif Kapadia
- Interstellar (2014) Christopher Nolan
- Argo (2013) Ben Affleck
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) David Fincher
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Jonathan Demme
- Amadeus (1984) Milos Forman
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Stanley Kubrick
- Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Arthur Penn
- Bullit (1968) Peter Yates
- Cool Hand Luke (1967) Stuart Rosenberg
- The Deer Hunter (1978) Michael Cimino
- Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) Elia Kazan
- The Godfather (1972) Francis Ford Coppola
- Gone With The Wind (1939) Victor Fleming
- In The Heat of the Night (1967) Norman Jewison
- M * A * S * H (1970) Robert Altman
- Midnight Cowboy (1969) John Schlesinger
If you need extra credit, you can watch a film from this list and then have a discussion with me about it.
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