Viewing & Reading List
High school students can earn HS Crew Points by viewing or reading the following books and films. This is the beginning of our list, and we'll add more often. Feel free to email us with suggestions.
Basically, these are films we think it's important for you to see, and books that will be helpful, but which we don't have time to use in class.
FILMS:
Hollywood Style Films:
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Hitchcock, 1956
The 39 Steps, Hitchcock, 1935
Oliver Twist, Lean, 1948
Spartacus, Kubrick, 1960
Young Mr. Lincoln, Ford, 1939
Dead Poets Society, Weir, 1989
Dances with Wolves (original)*, Costner, 1990
Schindler’s List*, Spielberg, 1993
Jaws, Spielberg, 1975
Amedeus*, Forman, 1984
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Forman, 1975
Lawrence of Arabia, Lean, 1962
Empire of the Sun, Spielberg, 1987
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone, 1967
West Side Story, Wise, 1961
It Happened One Night, Capra, 1934
The Maltese Falcon, Huston, 1941
The Magnificent Ambersons, Wells, 1942
It's A Wonderful Life, Capra, 1946
The African Queen, Huston, 1951
The Night of the Hunter, Laughton, 1955
Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger, 1959
Stagecoach, Ford, 1939
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Kramer, 1957
Exodus, Preminger, 1960
The Pink Panther, Edwards, 1964
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Ford, 1962
To Kill A Mockingbird, Mulligan, 1962
Midnight Cowboy*, Schlesinger, 1969
McCabe & Mrs. Miller*, Altman, 1972
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*, Forman, 1975
Network*, Lumet, 1976
American Graffiti*, Lucas, 1973
The Deer Hunter*, Cimino, 1978
*These films contain some material which you might find offensive. We feel they are important films to be familiar with, but watch them only if you and your parents think it appropriate.
Foreign or other Non-Hollywood:
The Devil & Daniel Webster, Dieterle, 1941
Ikiru, Kurosawa, 1952
Ordet, Dreyer, 1955
Red Beard, Kurosawa, 1965
The Seventh Seal, Bergman, 1957
October, Eisenstein, 1928
Rififi, Dassin, 1955
Bridge on the River Kwai, Lean, 1957
Lawrence of Arabia, Lean, 1962
Dr. Strangelove*, Kubrick, 1964
BOOKS:
Digital Video Filmmaker’s Handbook, Collier, Maxie
Gaffers, Grips and Best Boys, Taub, Eric
The Film Director’s Team, Silver, Alain & Elizabeth Ward
The Director’s Journey, Travis, Mark
Filmmaking for Teens, Lanier, Troy & Clay Nichols
Something Like an Autobiography, Akira Kurosawa
The Warrior's Camera, Stephen Prince
Brecht On Theater: The Development of an Aesthetic, Bertolt Brecht
Film Form: Essays on Film Theory, Sergei Eisenstein
The Film Sense, Sergei Eisenstein
