Thursday, February 5, 2009

Suggested OSR List

Here is a list of suggested titles, by era and genre, for your six OSRs:

Silents to 1939

42nd Street (Bacon, 1933 USA)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz & Keighley, 1938 USA)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Milestone, 1930 USA)
The Birth of a Nation (Griffith, 1915 USA)
The Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935 USA)
The Circus (Chaplin, 1928 USA)
Frankenstein (Whale, 1931 USA)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925 USA)
Gone With the Wind (Fleming, 1939 USA)
I’m No Angel (Ruggles, 1933 USA)
The Littlest Rebel (Butler, 1935 USA)
The Old Dark House (Whale, 1932 USA)
The Public Enemy (Wellman, 1931 USA)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Dwan, 1938 USA)
Shall We Dance (Sandrich, 1937 USA)
The Sheik (Melford, 1921 USA)
Top Hat (Sandrich, 1935 USA)
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming, 1939 USA)
Wings (Wellman, 1927 USA)
Wuthering Heights (Wyler, 1939 USA)

1940 to 1959

12 Angry Men (Lumet, 1957 USA)
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941 USA)
Gilda (Vidor, 1945 USA)
The Grapes of Wrath (Ford, 1940 USA)
Guys and Dolls (Mankiewicz, 1955 USA)
The Hitch-Hiker (Lupino, 1953 USA)
Mildred Pierce (Curtiz, 1945 USA)
My Darling Clementine (Ford, 1946 USA)
On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954 USA)
Pillow Talk
(Gordon, 1959 USA)
The Philadelphia Story (Cukor, 1940 USA)
Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954 USA)
Rebel Without A Cause (Ray, 1955 USA)
Rope (Hitchcock, 1948 USA)
Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelly, 1952 USA)
Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959 USA)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951 USA)
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950 USA)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston, 1948 USA)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Curtiz, 1942 USA)

1960 to 1979

2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968 USA/UK)
Annie Hall (Allen, 1977 USA)
Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967 USA)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969 USA)
Cabaret (Fosse, 1972 USA)
Chinatown (Polanski, 1974 USA)
The Deer Hunter (Cimino, 1978 USA)
Easy Rider (Hopper, 1969 USA)
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967 USA)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Kramer, 1967 USA)
Halloween (Carpenter, 1978 USA)
Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973 USA)
Network (Lumet, 1976 USA)
The Nutty Professor (Lewis, 1963 USA)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975 USA)
Planet of the Apes (Schaffner, 1968 USA)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960 USA)
Rocky (Avildsen, 1976 USA)
The Sound of Music (Wise, 1965 USA)
West Side Story (Wise & Robbins, 1961 USA)

1981 to present


21 Grams (González Iñárritu, 2003 USA)
Adaptation (Jonze, 2002 USA)
Amadeus (Forman, 1984 USA)
Blade Runner (Scott, 1982 USA)
The Blair Witch Project (Sanchez & Mwyck, 1999 USA)
Boys Don’t Cry (Pierce, 1999 USA)
Broadway Danny Rose (Allen, 1984 USA)
Chicago (Marshall, 2002 USA)
The Cider House Rules (Hallström, 1999 USA)
The Color Purple (Spielberg, 1985 USA)
Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989 USA)
El Norte (Nava, 1983 USA/UK)
The Elephant Man (Lynch, 1980 USA)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004 USA)
Far From Heaven (Haynes, 2002 USA)
Fargo (Coen, 1996 USA)
Frida (Taymor, 1992 USA/Mexico)
Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005 USA)
Manhunter (Mann, 1986 USA)
Maria Full of Grace (Marston, 2004 USA/Columbia)
Marvin’s Room (Zaks, 1996 USA)
Memento (Nolan, 2001 USA)
Menace II Society (Hughes Bros., 1993 USA)
Moonstruck (Jewison, 1987 USA)
My Own Private Idaho (Van Sant, 1991 USA)
Ordinary People (Redford, 1980 USA)
The Player (Altman, 1994 USA)
Private Benjamin (Zieff, 1980 USA)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994 USA)
Punch Drunk Love (Anderson, 2002 USA)
The Queen (Frears, 2006 UK/France/Italy)
Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980 USA)
Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000 USA)
Road to Perdition (Mendes, 2002 USA)
Schindler's List (Spielberg, 1993 USA)
Smoke Signals (Eyre, 1998 USA)
Thelma & Louise (Scott, 1991 USA)
United 93 (Greengrass, 2006 USA/France/et al.)
The Untouchables (De Palma, 1987 USA)
Wonder Boys (Hanson, 2000 USA)

Foreign Film

8 ½ (Fellini, 1963 Italy)
28 Days Later (Boyle, 2002 UK)
À Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (Godard, 1960 France)
Akira (Ôtomo, 1988 Japan)
Bend It Like Beckham (Chadha, 2002 UK)
Cidade de Deus (City of God) (Lins, Brazil 2002)
Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) (Arau, 1992 Mexico)
Cronos (del Toro, 1993 Mexico)
Et Dieu…Créa La Femme (And God Created Woman) (Vadim, 1956 France)
Europa Europa (Holland, 1990 Germany/France)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini, 1960 Italy)
La Môme (La vie en rose) (Dahan, 2007 UK/France/Czech Republic)
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amelie) (Jeneut, 2001 France/Germany)
Les quatre cents coups (400 Blows) (Truffaut, 1959 France)
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) (Tykwer, 1998 Germany)
Maarakat madinat al Jazaer (The Battle of Algiers) (Pontecorvo, 1966 Italy/Algiers)
Mùi du du xanh (The Scent of Green Papaya) (Hung, 1993 Vietnam/France)
Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (Ray, 1955 India)
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Noyce, 2002 Australia)
Salaam Bombay! (Nair, 1988 India/UK/et al.)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) (Miyazaki, 2001 Japan)
Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers) (Zhang, 2004 China/Hong Kong)
Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) (Kurosawa, 1954 Japan)
Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries) (Bergman, 1957 Sweden)
The Gods Must Be Crazy (Uys, 1980 Botswana)
The Piano (Campion, 1993 Australia/New Zealand)
Tsotsi (Hood, 2005 South Africa/UK)
Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) (Lee, 2000 Taiwan/Hong Kong/et al.)
Y tu mamá también (Cuarón, 2001 Mexico)
Yin Shi Nan Nu (Eat Drink Man Woman) (Lee, 1994 Taiwan)

Documentaries

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kid (Briski & Kauffman, 2004 USA/India)
Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002 USA)
The Celluloid Closet (Epstein & Friedman, USA/France, et al.)
Crumb (Zwigof, 1994 USA)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore, 2004 USA)
Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005 USA)
Hoop Dreams (James, 1994 USA)
An Inconvenient Truth (Guggenhein, 2006 USA)
La Marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins) (Jacquet, 2005 France)
Lost in La Mancha (Fulton & Pepe, 2002 USA/UK)
Mad Hot Ballroom (Agrelo, 2005 USA)
Murderball (Rubin & Shapiro, 2005 USA)
Pumping Iron (Butler & Fiore, 1977 USA)
Sicko (Moore, 2007 USA)
Spellbound (Blitz, 2002 USA)
Super Size Me (Spurlock, 2004 USA)
The Endless Summer (Brown, 1966 USA)
The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988 USA)
When We Were Kings (Gast, 1997 USA)
Who Killed the Electric Car? (Paine, 2006 USA)

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