Before You Graduate
Created by brian_fuller.
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Digital Filmmaking students perpetually ask if I have a list of films they should see. Yes I do. This is it. You'll be a better movie maker if you have this lexicon of film language in your brain's back pocket.
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La sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon
1895 — a.k.a. Leaving the Factory, in 10 top lists Check -
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Le voyage dans la lune
1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Great Train Robbery
1903, in 11 top lists Check -
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Gertie the Dinosaur
1914, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Rink
1916, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Immigrant
1917, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Sinking of the 'Lusitania'
1918, in 5 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
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Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
1920 — a.k.a. The Golem, in 9 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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The Gold Rush
1925, in 29 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 34 top lists Check -
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Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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Steamboat Willie
1928, in 3 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Drifters
1929, in 2 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
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Triumph des Willens
1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check -
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1936, in 3 top lists Check -
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Bringing Up Baby
1938, in 23 top lists Check -
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The River
1938, in 4 top lists Check -
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Stagecoach
1939, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 38 top lists Check -
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The Philadelphia Story
1940, in 22 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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The Maltese Falcon
1941, in 27 top lists Check -
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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Fiddle-de-dee
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ladri di biciclette
1948 — a.k.a. Bicycle Thieves, in 36 top lists Check -
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Gerald McBoing-Boing
1950, in 4 top lists Check -
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Rabbit of Seville
1950, in 2 top lists Check -
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Rashômon
1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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Rear Window
1954, in 31 top lists Check -
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956, in 19 top lists Check -
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Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Searchers
1956, in 26 top lists Check -
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Det sjunde inseglet
1957 — a.k.a. The Seventh Seal, in 25 top lists Check -
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North by Northwest
1959, in 30 top lists Check -
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Les quatre cents coups
1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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Munro
1961, in 0 top lists Check -
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Surogat
1961 — a.k.a. The Substitute, in 0 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check
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