These are just initial suggestions and we can suggest other movies too.
Sessions:
- Italian neorealism: Umberto D (1951), Rome Open City (1945), Shoeshine (1946), Bicycle Thieves (1948), Paisan (1946) …………..
- French New wave: The 400 Blows (1959), Le Weekend (1967), Breathless (1960), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Alphaville (1965), Agnès Varda’s ……………..
- Soviet Montage; Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925), October (1927), Storm Over Asia (1930), Man with a Movie Camera (1929), The End of St. Petersburg (1927)…………
- Japanese New Wave/ Akira Kurosawa’s: Woman in the Dunes (1964), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), In the Realm of the Senses (1976), The Pornographers (1966), Eros Plus Massacre (1970) / Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Ran (1985)……
- Indian New Cinema/’Bollywood’: The Unvanquished (Aparajito) (1956), The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara) (1960), Mr. Shome (Bhuvan Shome) (1969), The Seedling (Ankur) (1974), Salaam Bombay! (1988), Fire (1996), The Terrorist (Theeviravaathi) (1999)/ Don (2006), Deewaar (1975), Jai Santoshi Maa (1975)……
- Iranian New Wave: The Cow (1969), Taste of Cherry (1997), Close-up (1990), Ten (2002), The Mirror (1997), The Circle (2000), Offside (2006), The Cyclist (1987), Hello Cinema (1994), A moment of Innocence (1996), Children of Heaven (1998), The Willow Tree (2005), The Apple (1998 ) …
- Chinese Fifth and Sixth Generation: One and Eight (1983), Yellow Earth (1984), Farewell My Concubine (1993), Red Sorghum (1987), Ju Dou (1991), Raise the Red Lantern (1992), The Blue Kite (1993), Not One Less (1999), Blind Shaft (2003), Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), Seventeen Years (1999), Beijing Bicycle (2001), Devils on the Doorstep (2000)….
- The New Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking: The Graduate (1967), M*A*S*H* (1970), Easy Rider (1969), The Exorcist (1973), The Conversation (1974), Jaws(1975), American Graffiti (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Hard Core (1979), What’s Up, Doc? (1972), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988), The Terminator (1984), Mission: Impossible (1996), Blade Runner (1982), Fast Times at Ridgemont High(1982), Ble Velvet (1986), Malcolm X (1992), Raising Arizona (1987), Pulp Fiction (1994), Fight Club (1999), The Matrix ( 1999), Trust (1990)
Idiocracy (2006), Syriana (2005)
- African Cinema (Sub-Saharan): Borom Sarret( 1963), Black Girl (1966), Xala (1974), Mandabi (1968), Moolaade(2004), Sarraounia(1986), Letter from my Village (1975), Harvest: 3000 years (1974), Sankofa (1993), Love Brewed in the African Pot (1980)…The Gods must be Crazy(1980)..
- Latin American: Like Water for Chocolate (1992), Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Machuca (2004)…..