Mandatory Films

Following films are mandatory. The questions in both midterm and final exam will refer to them. You will need to know the films to answer those questions.

Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987)

Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)

Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)

All the President’s Man (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)

The Front Page (Billy Wilder, 1974)

Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987)

Advertising Rules –  Viktor Vogel (Lars Kraume, 2001)

Thank you for Smoking (Jason Reitman, 2005)

Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1998)

The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)

La nui americain (Francois Truffaut, 1983)

The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)

Film Collection by subject

This is a list of films that you can select for you film analysis paper. You are welcome to add titles after a discussion with me about the contents.

YOU CANNOT USE ANY OF THE MANDATORY FILMS FOR THE FILM ANALYSIS PAPER.

TV

The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)

EdTV (Ron Howard, 1999)

A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957)

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994)

Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

Journalism

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1939)

Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)

La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)

Deadline – U.S.A. (Richard Brooks, 1952)

Shattered Glass (Billy Ray, 2003)

Radio

Good Morning Vietnam (Barry Levinson, 1987)

American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)

Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

Pirate Radio (Richard Curtis, 2009)

Advertising

I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Isname (Michael Winner, 1967)

99 Francs (Jan Kounen, 2007)

Suits (Eric Weber, 1999)

Beer (Patrick Kelly, 1985)

How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson, 1989)

Public Relations

People I know (Dan Algrant, 2002)

Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mckendrick, 1957)

Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2009)

All the King’s Men (Robert Rossen, 1949)

Spinning Boris (Roger Spottiswoode, 2003)

Primary Colors (Mike Nichols, 1998)

Cinema

Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)

Ed Wood (Tim Burton, 1994)

Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)

Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002)

81/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)

Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952)

New Technologies

The Matrix (1999)

Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July, 2005)

Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995)

StartUp.com (Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim, 2001)

AntiTrust (Peter Howitt, 2001)

Her (Spike Jonze, 2013)

The American Meme (Bert Marcus, 2018)

Disconnect (Henry Alex Rubin, 2012)

Ingrid Goes West (Matt Spicer, 2017)

Spree (Eugene Kotlyarenko, 2020)

The Hater (Jan Komasa, 2020)

Find Request (Simon Verhoeven, 2016)

Mainstream (Gia Coppola, 2020)

Not Okay (Quinn Shephard, 2022)

Catfish (Henry Joost, Ariel Shulman, 2010)

Nerve (Henry Joost, Ariel Shulman, 2016)

The Social Ones (Laura Kosann, 2019)

Influencer (Kurtis David Harder, 2022)

Social Media 101 (Paul Iheanyichukwu Igwe, 2019