Recommended Movies
Many of these movies are referenced in this book, and all are essential viewing for anyone interested in a career making them. I usually announce in my first class that students need to watch them all by the second. I’m always surprised by how few of them realize I’m joking.
| Airplane! | Dog Day Afternoon |
| Alien | Double Indemnity |
| An American Werewolf in London | Duck Soup E.T |
| Annie Hall | Fargo |
| Beverly Hills Cop | Flirting with Disaster |
| The Bicycle Thief | The Fugitive |
| Big | The Godfather |
| Blue Velvet | The Goldrush |
| Casablanca | The Graduate |
| Chinatown | Harold and Maude |
| Citizen Kane | House of Games |
| A Clockwork Orange | The Hustler |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
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