Film analysis: a Norton reader

Arrival of a train at La Ciotat (1895-1897), Lumière Brothers / Karin Littau.

A trip to the moon (1902), Georges Méliès / Tom Gunning.

The birth of a nation (1915), D.W. Griffith / Daniel Bernardi.

The cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Robert Wiene / Paul Coates.

Nanook of the North (1922), Robert J. Flaherty / Jeffrey Geiger.

Sherlock Jr. (1924), Buster Keaton / Hal Gladfelder.

Battleship Potemkin (1926), Sergei Eisenstein / Bill Nichols.

Metropolis (1927), Fritz Lang / R.L. Rutsky.

Un chien andalou (9129), Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí / Tom Conley.

It happened one night (1934), Frank Capra / Richard Maltby.

Modern times (1936), Charlie Chaplin / Charles J. Maland.

Osaka elegy (1936), Mizoguchi Kenji / Joanne Bernardi.

Bringing up baby (1938), Howard Hawks / S.I. Salamensky.

The rules of the game (1939), Jean Renoir / Christopher Faulkner.

Stagecoach (1939), John Ford / Matthew Bernstein.

Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles / James Naremore.

Casablanca (1942), Michael Curtiz / Dana Polan.

Double indemnity (1944), Billy Wilder / Gaylyn Studlar.

Rome open city (1945), Roberto Rossellini / Marcia Landy.

Bicycle thieves (1948), Vittorio De Sica / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith.

Singin' in the rain (1952), Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly / Jane Feuer.

Tokyo story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro / David Desser.

Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock / Elizabeth Cowie.

Seven samurai (1954), Kurosawa Akira / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.

Pather Panchali (1955), Satyajit Ray / Neepa Majumdar.

The seventh seal (1956), Ingmar Bergman / Marilyn Johns Blackwell.

The 400 blows (1959), François Truffaut / Alastair Phillips.

Breathless (1960), Jean-Luc Godard / Richard Neupert.

8 1/2 (1963), Federico Fellini / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli.

2001: a space odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick / Robert Kolker.

The godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola / Jon Lewis.

Ali: fear eats the soul (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder / Shohini Chaudhuri.

Chinatown (1974), Roman Polanski / Steve Neale.

The last supper (1976), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Gilberto M. Blasini.

Taxi driver (1976), Martin Scorsese / Cynthia Fuchs.

Ceddo (1977), Ousmane Sembene / Philip Rosen.

Peking opera blues (1986), Tsui Hark / Jenny Kwok Wah Lau.

Yeelen (1987), Souleymane Cissé / N. Frank Ukadike.

Do the right thing (1989), Spike Lee / Sharon Willis.

Close-up (1989), Abbas Kiarostami / Hamid Naficy.

To sleep with anger (1990), Charles Burnett / Valerie Smith.

Raise the red lantern (1991), Zhang Yimou / Shuqin Cui.

Daughters of the dust (1991), Julie Dash / Anna Everett.

All about my mother (1999), Pedro Almodóvar / Paul Julian Smith.