Scenes from Recent Film Series


Films of Billy Wilder –

Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Some Like it Hot

Films of Preston Sturges – Remember the Night, The Palm Beach Story, Sullivan’s Travels, The Lady Eve

Films of John Huston – The Asphalt Jungle, Beat the Devil, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon

Films of Alfred Hitchcock – The Lady Vanishes, Notorious, Rear Window, North by Northwest

Classic foreign films –

La Strada, Wild Strawberries, Grand Illusion

Films about children – Forbidden Games, Pather Panchali, Hope and Glory

Films of Elia Kazan –

A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, East of Eden

70th anniversary of 1941 – Citizen Kane, How Green Was My Valley, Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Early works of Francois Truffaut –

The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim

Cold War Films of the 1960s:

Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

Scandinavian Films: Wild Strawberries, Twist and Shout, Together, Kitchen Stories, Man Without a Past, The Celebration

Classic Films of the 1940s:

The Shop Around the Corner, Notorious, The Maltese Falcon, Now Voyager, Casablanca, Red River, The Palm Beach Story

Neglected Gems:

Trouble in Paradise, Remember the Night, I Know Where I’m Going, Lonely Are the Brave, Nothing But a Man, A Private Function, Lost in America

Influential Films of the 1960s: Loves of a Blonde, Bonnie and Clyde, The 400 Blows, Take the Money and Run, A Thousand Clowns, The World of Apu, Blow Up

Movies About Movies:

Sunset Boulevard, Sherlock Jr., Sullivan’s Travels, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Day for Night, 8 ½, Living in Oblivion

Passport to World Cinema:

The Band’s Visit, Postmen in the Mountains, Sugar Cane Alley, Wadjda, The Cup, Daratt, After Life, Central Station

Comedy:

Steamboat Bill Jr., The Lady Eve, Mr. Hulot’s Holiday, The Apartment, Duck Soup, The Firemen’s Ball

Hitchcock:

Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Lady Vanishes, Vertigo

Great Directors/Great Films:

The Purple Rose of Cairo, Yojimbo, The 400 Blows, Dr. Strangelove, The Conversation, Wild Strawberries

Books & Plays into Film:

Pygmalion, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Much Ado About Nothing, The Innocents, How Green Was My Valley, The Dead, High Fidelity

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