Portrait from someone's doodle-drawing on the survey-poll!

List of films from (May 2019) in-class anonymous poll of Engl 222 History of Film 1945-Present top 10 films. Each of the films listed made it into someone’s top 10. Films in boldface appeared on someone’s list as the #1 ranked choice; films underlined appeared as someone’s #2 choice (so some films are both boldfaced and underlined). Also noted further below are examples of films that students selected/wrote about for the Midterm exam (included essays on two different films), Sequence Analysis Plus, and the Critical Essay (at minimum, one of these latter assignments, like the midterm, had to be on a foreign film). Also see two weblinks to further lists of recommended films. At the end of this webpate are films recommended by Engl 222 Spring 2019 students.

List of films from today’s in-class poll of your top 10 films. Each of the films listed made it into someone’s top 10. Films in boldface appeared on someone’s list as the #1 ranked choice; films underlined appeared as someone’s #2 choice (so some films are both boldfaced and underlined).

Strangers on a Train (1951), Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), dir. Hitchcock
Bicycle Thieves (1948), dir. De Sica, and Umberto D.(?)
8½, dir. Fellini (1963)
I Know Where I’m Going(1945), Black Narcissus (1947), and The Red Shoes (1948), dir. Powell and Pressburger
The Naked City, dir. Dassin (1948)
Late Spring, dir. Ozu (1949)
Ugetsu monogatari, dir. Mizoguchi (1953)
Seven Samurai, dir. Kurosawa (1954)
The Searchers, dir. Ford (1956)
The 400 Blows, dir. Truffaut (1959)
Some Like It Hot, dir. Wilder (1959)
Breathless, dir. Godard (1960)
Cléo from 5 to 7, dir. Varda (1962)
Blow-Up, dir. Antonioni (1966)
Wings, dir. Shepitko (1966)
Alice in the Cities, dir. Wenders (1974)
Taxi Driver, dir. Scorsese (1976)
Manhattan, dir. Allen (1979)
Vagabond, dir. Varda (1985)
Do the Right Thing, dir. Lee (1989)
Jackie Brown, dir. Tarantino (1997)
Ringu, dir. Nakata (1998)
In the Mood for Love (2000) and The Chungking Express (1994), dir. Kar-Wai
Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013), dir. Linklater
The Royal Tenenbaums, dir. Anderson (2001)
Princess Mononoke (1997, animated) and Spirited Away (2001), dir. Miyazaki
A Simple Plan, dir. Raimi (1998)
Ghost World, dir. Zwigoff (2001)
City of God, dir. Meirelles (2002)
Bend It Like Beckham, dir. Chadha (2002)
Caché, dir. Haneke (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, dir. Gondry (2004)
Million Dollar Baby, dir. Eastwood (2004)
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2003-2004), dir. Tarantino
Tsotsi, dir. Hood (2005)
Pan’s Labyrinth, dir. del Toro (2006)
Children of Men, dir. Cuarón (2006)
Juno, dir. Reitman (2007)
Frozen River, dir. Hunt (2008)
Let the Right One In, dir. Alfredson (2008)
An Education, dir. Scherfig (2009)
500 Hundred Days of Summer, dir. Weber (2009)
Winter's Bone, dir. Granik (2010)
Her, dir. Jonze (2013)
Whiplash(2014) and La La Land (2016), dir. Chazelle
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, dir. Amirpour (2014)
Birdman, Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, dir. Iñárritu (2014)
Under the Skin, dir. Glazer (2014)
Ex Machina, dir. Garland (2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road, dir. Miller (2015)
Silence, dir. Scorsese (2016)
Arrival, dir. Villaneuve (2016)
Moonlight, dir. Jenkins (2016)
Get Out, dir. Peele (2017)
The Big Sick, dir. Showalter (2017)
Carol, dir. Haynes (2015)
Lady Bird, dir. Gerwig (2017)
Creed, dir. Coogler (2015)
The Rider, dir. Zhao (2018)
Annihilation, dir. Garland (2018)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, dir. Persichetti et. al (2018)

Examples of films that students selected/wrote about for Sequence Analysis Plus assignment:
Lady Bird
Roma
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Taxi Driver
I Know Where I’m Going
City of God
Call Me By Your Name
Super 8
La La Land
The Rider
Tsotsi
Children of Men
Arrival
Life Is Beautiful
Million Dollar Baby
Princess Mononoke
Nights of Cabiria
Under the Skin
Black Narcissus
Ex Machina
Creed
Whiplash
Birdman
Ghost World

Examples of Films that students selected/wrote about for end-of-semester Critical Analysis Essay:
The Salesman
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Mad Max Fury Road
Seven Samurai
Whiplash
Moonlight
Stranger Than Fiction
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
City of God
Adaptation
Children of Men
Let the Right One In
Call Me By Your Name
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Caché
Silence
Get Out
Arrival
Creed
Three Colors: Blue
BlacKkKlansman

Examples of films that students wrote about for midterm exam (which had to include at least one ‘foreign’ film):
Memento
Vertigo
Nights of Cabiria
Before Sunrise
Blow-Up
Black Narcissus
Creed
Cléo from 5 to 7
Wings
The Searchers
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Red Shoes
Le Mépris
Some Like It Hot
Children of Men
Alice in the Cities
Strangers on a Train
Moonlight
In the Mood for Love
An Education
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
8 ½
Bicycle Thieves
Million Dollar Baby
Rashomon
Rear Window
The Rider
Satya

See these weblinks for more lists(!):

• Favorite Films plus good/decent films to see
• Over 500 Top-Ranked/Selected/Preferred Films, including many from Sight & Sound 2012 poll of all-time films, as well as top ranked lists from Criterion Collection, National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films, and other 'favorites.'

Films that Engl 222 students recommend to be added (to choose from/among, for viewing or assignments, for example) in the course, listed in no particular order:
Hertzfeldt’s It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
McKay’s Vice (2018)
Scott’s Blade Runner (1982)
Spielberg’s Jaws (1975)
Gilliam and Jones’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Levinson’s Rain Man (1988)
Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Some Hammer horror films from the 50’s, such as The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy
Scott’s Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986)
Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993)
Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Karate Kid
The Battle of Algiers, dir. Pontecorvo (1966)
The LEGO Movie
Big Trouble in Little China
Predator
Kingsmen
Rocky
Creed II
Wolf Children
Interstellar
Avengers: Endgame
Ironman
Infinity War
Age of Ultron
The Plague Dogs
Disney’s Aladdin and The Lion King
Joyeux Noël
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
One Punch Man (web comic series)
The Proposal
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Cat Returns
The Boy and the Beast
Stand By Me
Oceans II
Fight Club
Baby Driver
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Shrek
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Homeward Bound
To Live
Leon the Professional
Boyz n the Hood
Inception
Train to Busan
Raazi
10 Things I Hate About You
Man Bites Dog
Daughters of the Dust
Devdas
Us
Hereditary
Hock hiap leong
Fauve (short film by Comte)
Inglourious Basterds
Melancholia
A Quiet Place
Django Unchained
Blade Runner: 2049
Boss Baby
Angel’s Egg
Tropic Thunder
Apocalypse Now
Your Name
Eraserhead
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
The Lobster
Dogtooth
The Favourite
Magical Girl
Drunken Master or other Jackie Chan films
Bad Lieutenant
Synecdoche, New York
Gangs of New York
Seven
A Star Is Born
Grease
Lord of the Rings
Indiana Jones
Zodiac
Remember the Titans
Warrior
No Country for Old Men
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Graduate
The Big Lebowski
Black Swan
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Ghost Writer
Hero
Love, Simon
The Last Samurai
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Hanna
Del Toro’s The Shape of Water and The Devil’s Backbone
Kent’s The Babadook (2014)
Bazawule’s The Burial of Kojo (2014)
Moore’s Song of the Sea and Secret of Kells
Satoshikon’s Tokyo Godfathers, Millenium Actress, Paprika
Myrick and Sanchez, The Blair Witch Project
Insidious