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What movies should I watch before film school?
Top 10 Films To Watch Before Going To Film School
- Breathless aka À bout de soufflé Dir.
- 12 Angry Men. Dir.
- Psycho. Dir.
- The Third Man. Dir.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dir. Kubrick (USA, 1968)
- Sunset Boulevard. Dir. Wilder (USA, 1950)
- Shadows. Dir. Cassavetes (USA, 1959)
- The Battleship Potemkin. Dir. Eisenstein (Russia, 1925)
What movies do film majors like?
A Trip to the Moon (1902) That’s right.
What Hitchcock movie should I start with?
Vertigo (1958) The best place to start with Hitchcock, Vertigo features the best work of everyone involved.
Should I watch Psycho?
Psycho remains a terrific film to watch, standing apart from other Hitchcock films by being less subtle and more direct in its approach. It grabs you and takes you on a very dark journey indeed, twisting itself to deliberately fool around with your expectations.
What films do you study in film school?
Movies to Watch During Film School
- Citizen Kane (1941) PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery.
- Breathless (1960) Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama.
- Vertigo (1958) PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller.
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- 8½ (1963)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
What movies do they study in film school?
Ten Movies You’ll Watch During Film School and Why
- Cleo from 5 to 7 dir. Agnes Varda (1962)
- Breathless dir. Jean-Luc Godard (1960)
- Vertigo dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
- Fight Club dir. David Fincher (1999)
- Her dir. Spike Jonze (2013)
- Chinatown dir. Roman Polanski (1974)
- Metropolis dir. Fritz Lang (1927)
- Grizzly Man dir.
What do film students watch?
How many movies did Alfred Hitchcock make?
Born Aug. 13, 1899, the English film director created more than 50 movies before he passed away in 1980. There is no denying that he changed the way audiences watched films — for example, Hitchcock demanded specific start times for “Psycho,” and audiences were asked to not give away the end of the movie.
How did Hitchcock use method acting in his films?
A very particular director, Hitchcock famously did not set much stock in method acting or improvisation and kept a tight reign on the action on set. He was also known to frequently collaborate with the same actors. Simple, linear stories allow the audience to easily follow along.
What is the best part of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho?
The best part of the film may very well be Bernard Herrmann’s score, which was the first time he composed for Hitchcock but it wouldn’t be the last. Herrmann put his signature touch on many of the best Hitchcock movies including Vertigo , North by Northwest, and, of course, those nerve-racking staccato strings in Psycho.
Why is Hitchcock so fascinated by music?
Even his characters are fascinated by music, and, as the New York Times’ Edward Rothstein points out, it can be argued that music itself functions at the level of a character in Hitchcock films. Hitchcock believed that film editing could only do so much for a film.