Buffalo Film Seminars I-VIII
Spring 2000-Spring 2004
I: Spring 2000
William Wellman, The Public Enemy, 1931
Lloyd Bacon, 42nd Street, 1933
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night, 1934
Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will, 1934
Sam Wood, A Night at the Opera, 1935
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, 1944
Jean Cocteau, Belle et la bête/Beauty and the Beast, 1946
Fred Zinnemann, High Noon, 1952
Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1954
Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, 1958
Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, 1967
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, 1980
II: Fall 2000
Jean Renoir, La Grande illusion/The Grand Illusion, 1937
Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, 1939
Otto Preminger, Laura, 1944
Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, 1946
Joseph Mankiewicz, All About Eve, 1950
Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory, 1957
Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, 1960
Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966
John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969
Bob Fosse, All that Jazz, 1979
Connie Field, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, 1980
Peter Greenaway, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 1989
Nikita Mikhalkov, Utomlyonnye solntsem/Burnt by the Sun, 1994
III: Spring 2001
King Vidor, The Big Parade,1925
Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933
Luis Buñuel, El Ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel, 1962
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan Groznyj I & II/Ivan the Terrible parts I & II, 1943 & 1946
Vittorio De Sica, Ladri di bicyclette/Bicycle Thieves, 1947
Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du Paradis/Children of Paradise, 1945
Robert Aldrich Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
Sergio Leone, C’era un volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968
Peter Bogdanovitch, The Last Picture Show, 1971
William Friedkin, The French Connection, 1971
John Huston, The Man Who Would be King, 1975
Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, 1977
Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala, 1974
IV: Fall 2001
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, The General 1927
Georg Pabst, Die Büchse der Pandora/Pandora's Box 1929
Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar 1930*
Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise 1932
Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels 1942
Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard 1950
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Le Salaire de la peur/Wages of Fear 1953
Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter 1955
Alexander Mackendrick, Sweet Smell of Success 1957
Luchino Visconti, Il Gattopardo/The Leopard 1963
Bernardo Bertolucci, Il Conformista/The Conformist, 1970
Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, 1973
Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven 1978
Terry Gilliam The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988
V: Spring 2002
Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar 1930
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going 1945
Nicolas Ray, In a Lonely Place 1950
Akira Kurosawa, Rashômon 1950
Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali 1955
Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle/Breathless 1959
Robert Rossen, The Hustler 1961
John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
Stanley Kubrick Dr Strangelove 1964
Josef von Sternberg, Der Blaue EngelThe Blue Angel 1930
Lindsay Anderson, if... 1968
Robert Altman, Nashville 1975
Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets 1973
Billy Wilder, Some Like it Hot 1959
VI: Fall 2002
F.W. Murnau, Sunrise, 1927
Fritz Lang, M, 1931
W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, 1934
Ruben Mamoulian, Queen Christina, 1933
Jean Renoir, La Règle du jeu/The Rules of the Game, 1939
John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, 1941
Roberto Rossellini, Roma, città operta/Open City, 1945
Carol Reed, The Third Man, 1949
Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story, 1953
Marcel Camus, Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus, 1958
Luis Buñuel, Belle de Jour, 1967
John Cassavetes, Faces, 1968
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, 1969
François Truffaut, La Nuit Américaine/Day for Night, 1973
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975
VII: Fall 2003
Buster Keaton Our Hospitality 1924
Fritz Lang Metropolis 1927
Howard Hawks Scarface 1932
Cedric Gibbons Tarzan and his Mate 1934
David Lean Great Expectations 1946
Jacques Tourneur Out of the Past 1947
Kenji Misoguchi Ugetsu monogatari/Ugetsu 1953
John Ford The Searchers 1956
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo 1958
Jean-Luc Godard Le Mépris/Contempt 1963
Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver 1976
Peter Medak The Ruling Class 1972
Andrei Tarkovsky Offret/The Sacrifice 1986
Jim Jarmusch Dead Man 1995
Pedro Almodóvar Habla con ella/Talk to Her 2002
VIII: Spring 2004
Erich von Stroheim, Greed, 1925
Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front,1930
Fritz Lang, You Only Live Once,1939
Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve, 1941
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, 1941
Wiliam A. Wellman, The Ox Bow Incident, 1943
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943
John Houston, The Asphalt Jungle, 1950
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain 1952
Fred Zinneman, From Here to Eternity, 1953
Akira Kurosawa, Kumonosu jo/Throne of Blood, 1957
Luchino Visconti, Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and his Brothers, 1960
François Truffaut, Jules et Jim/Jules and Jim, 1961
Terry Gilliam The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 (fall 2001)
Joseph Mankiewicz, All About Eve, 1950 (fall 2000)
Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front,1930 (spring 2004)
Bob Fosse, All that Jazz, 1979 (fall 2000)
Luis Buñuel, El Ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel, 1962 (spring 2001)
John Houston, The Asphalt Jungle, 1950 (spring 2004)
Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast/Belle et la bête, 1946 (spring 2000)
Jean Cocteau, Belle et la bête/Beauty and the Beast, 1946 (spring 2000)
Luis Buñuel, Belle de Jour, 1967 (fall 2002)
Vittorio De Sica, Bicycle Thieves/Ladri di bicyclette, 1947 (spring 2001)
King Vidor, The Big Parade,1925 (spring 2001)
Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus/Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus, 1958 (fall 2002)
Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel, 1930 (spring 2002)
Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle/Breathless 1959 (spring 2002)
Josef von Sternberg, Der Blaue EngelThe Blue Angel, 1930 (spring 2002)
Josef von Sternberg, The Blue Angel/Der Blaue Engel, 1930 (spring 2002)
Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 (spring 2000)
Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle/Breathless, 1959 (spring 2002)
James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 (spring 2001)
Georg Pabst, Die Büchse der Pandora/Pandora’s Box 1929 (fall 2001)
Nikita Mikhalkov, Burnt by the Sun/Utomlyonnye solntsem, 1994 (fall 2000)
Sergio Leone, C’era un volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968 (spring 2001)
Marcel Carné, The Children of Paraside/Les Enfants du paradis, 1945 (spring 2001)
Bernardo Bertolucci, Il Conformista/The Conformist, 1970 (fall 2001)
Jean-Luc Godard Le Mépris/Contempt 1963 (fall 2003)
Peter Greenaway, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 1989 (fall 2000)
François Truffaut, Day for Night/La Nuit américaine, 1973 (fall 2002)
Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven 1978 (fall 2001)
Jim Jarmusch Dead Man 1995 (fall 2003)
Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala, 1974 (spring 2001)
Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, 1973 (fall 2001)
Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, 1944 (spring 2000)
Stanley Kubrick Dr Strangelove 1964 (spring 2002)
Luis Buñuel, El Ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel, 1962 (spring 2001)
Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du paradis/Children of Paradise, 1945 (spring 2001)
John Cassavetes, Faces, 1968 (fall 2002)
Lloyd Bacon, 42nd Street, 1933 (spring 2000)
William Friedkin, The French Connection, 1971 (spring 2001)
Fred Zinneman, From Here to Eternity, 1953 (spring 2004)
Luchino Visconti, Il Gattopardo/The Leopard 1963 (fall 2001)
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, The General 1927 (fall 2001)
Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 (spring 2001)
Jean Renoir, La Grande illusion/The Grand Illusion, 1937 (fall 2000)
David Lean Great Expectations 1946 (fall 2003)
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 (spring 2000)
Erich von Stroheim, Greed, 1925 (spring 2004)
Pedro Almodóvar Habla con ella/Talk to Her 2002 (fall 2003)
Fred Zinnemann, High Noon, 1952 (spring 2000)
Lindsay Anderson, if... 1968 (spring 2002)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going 1945 (spring 2002)
Nicolas Ray, In a Lonely Place 1950 (spring 2002)
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night, 1934 (spring 2000)
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan Groznyj I & II/Ivan the Terrible parts I & II, 1943 & 1946 (spring 2001)
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan the Terrible parts I & II/Ivan Groznyj I & II/, 1943 & 1946 (spring 2001)
Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, 1977 (spring 2001)
Robert Aldrich Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (spring 2001)
Akira Kurosawa, Kumonosu jo/Throne of Blood, 1957 (spring 2004)
Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, 1960 (fall 2000)
Vittorio De Sica, Ladri di bicyclette/Bicycle Thieves, 1947 (spring 2001)
Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve, 1941 (spring 2004)
Peter Bogdanovitch, The Last Picture Show, 1971 (spring 2001)
Otto Preminger, Laura, 1944 (fall 2000)
Luchino Visconti, The Leopard/Il Gattopardo 1963 (fall 2001)
William A. Wellman, The Ox Bow Incident, 1943 (spring 2004)
Connie Field, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, 1980 (fall 2000)
Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar 1930 (fall 2001, spring 2002)*
Fritz Lang, M, 1931 (fall 2002)
John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (fall 2002)
John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 (spring 2002)
John Huston, The Man Who Would be King, 1975 (spring 2001)
John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 (spring 2002)
Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets 1973 (spring 2002)
Jean-Luc Godard Le Mépris/Contempt 1963 (fall 2003)
Fritz Lang Metropolis 1927 (fall 2003)
John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969 (fall 2000)
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975 (fall 2002)
Robert Altman, Nashville 1975 (spring 2002)
Sam Wood, A Night at the Opera, 1935 (spring 2000)
Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter 1955 (fall 2001)
Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, 1939 (fall 2000)
Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, 1946 (fall 2000)
François Truffaut, La Nuit américaine/Day for Night, 1973 (fall 2002)
Andrei Tarkovsky Offret/The Sacrifice 1986 (fall 2003)
Sergio Leone, Once Upon a Time in the West/C’era un volta il West, 1968 (spring 2001)
Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1954 (spring 2000)
Roberto Rossellini, Open City/Roma, città aperta, 1945 (fall 2002)
Marcel Camus, Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus, 1958 (fall 2002)
Buster Keaton Our Hospitality 1924 (fall 2003)
Jacques Tourneur Out of the Past 1947 (fall 2003)
William A. Wellman, The Ox Bow Incident, 1943 (spring 2004)
Georg Pabst, Pandora’s Box/Die Büchse der Pandora, 1929 (fall 2001)
Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali 1955 (spring 2002)
Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory, 1957 (fall 2000)
William Wellman, The Public Enemy, 1931 (spring 2000)
Ruben Mamoulian, Queen Christina, 1933 (fall 2002)
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, 1980 (spring 2000)
Akira Kurosawa, Rashômon 1950 (spring 2002)
Jean Renoir, La Règle du jeu/The Rules of the Game, 1939 (fall 2002)
Luchino Visconti, Rocco e i suoi fratelle/Rocco and his Brothers, 1960 (spring 2004)
Roberto Rossellini, Roma, città aperta/Open City, 1945 (fall 2002)
Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game/La Règle du jeu, 1939 (fall 2002)
Peter Medak The Ruling Class 1972 (fall 2003)
Andrei Tarkovsky The Sacrifice/Offret 1986 (fall 2003)
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Le Salaire de la peur/Wages of Fear 1953 (fall 2001)
Howard Hawks Scarface 1932 (fall 2003)
John Ford The Searchers 1956 (fall 2003)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain 1952 (spring 2004)
Billy Wilder, Some Like it Hot 1959 (spring 2002)
Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels 1942 (fall 2001)
Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard 1950 (fall 2001)
F.W. Murnau, Sunrise, 1927 (fall 2002)
Alexander Mackendrick, Sweet Smell of Success 1957 (fall 2001)
Pedro Almodóvar Talk to Her/Habla con ella 2002 (fall 2003)
Cedric Gibbons Tarzan and his Mate 1934 (fall 2003)
Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver 1976 (fall 2003)
W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, 1934. (fall 2002)
Carol Reed, The Third Man, 1949 (fall 2002)
Akira Kurosawa, Throne of Blood/Kumonosu jo, 1957 (spring 2004)
Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story, 1953 (fall 2002)
Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, 1958 (spring 2000)
Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will, 1934 (spring 2000)
Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise 1932 (fall 2001)
Kenji Misoguchi Ugetsu monogatari/Ugetsu (spring 2003)
Nikita Mikhalkov, Utomlyonnye solntsem/Burnt by the Sun, 1994 (fall 2000)
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo 1958 (fall 2003)
Henri-Georges Clouzot, The Wages of Fear/Le Salaire de la peur 1953 (fall 2001)
Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966 (fall 2000)
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, 1969 (fall 2002)
Fritz Lang, You Only Live Once,1939 (spring 2004)
Robert Aldrich Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (spring 2001)
Pedro Almodóvar Habla con ella/Talk to Her 2002 (spring 2003)
Robert Altman, Nashville 1975 (spring 2002)
Lindsay Anderson, if... 1968 (spring 2002)
Lloyd Bacon, 42nd Street, 1933 (spring 2000)
Bernardo Bertolucci, Il Conformista/The Conformist, 1970 (fall 2001)
Peter Bogdanovitch, The Last Picture Show, 1971 (spring 2001)
Luis Buñuel, Belle de Jour, 1967 (fall 2002)
Luis Buñuel, El Ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel, 1962 (spring 2001)
Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, 1977 (spring 2001)
Marcel Camus, Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus, 1958 (fall 2002)
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night, 1934 (spring 2000)
Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du paradis/Children of Paradise, 1945 (spring 2001)
John Cassavetes, Faces, 1968 (fall 2002)
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Le Salaire de la peur/Wages of Fear 1953 (fall 2001)
Jean Cocteau, Belle et la bête/Beauty and the Beast, 1946 (spring 2000)
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, 1941 (spring 2004)
Vittorio De Sica, Ladri di bicyclette/Bicycle Thieves, 1947 (spring 2001)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain 1952 (spring 2004)
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan Groznyj I & II/Ivan the Terrible parts I & II, 1943 & 1946 (spring 2001)
Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, 1960 (fall 2000)
Connie Field, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, 1980 (fall 2000)
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 (spring 2000)
John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 (spring 2002)
John Ford The Searchers 1956 (spring 2003)
Bob Fosse, All that Jazz, 1979 (fall 2000)
William Friedkin, The French Connection, 1971 (spring 2001)
Cedric Gibbons Tarzan and his Mate 1934 (spring 2003)
Terry Gilliam The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 (fall 2001)
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975 (fall 2002)
Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle/Breathless 1959 (spring 2002)
Jean-Luc Godard Le Mépris/Contempt 1963 (spring 2003)
Peter Greenaway, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 1989 (fall 2000)
Howard Hawks Scarface 1932 (spring 2003)
Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, 1946 (fall 2000)
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo 1958 (spring 2003)
John Houston, The Asphalt Jungle, 1950 (spring 2004)
John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (fall 2002)
John Huston, The Man Who Would be King, 1975 (spring 2001)
Jim Jarmusch Dead Man 1995 (spring 2003)
Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1954 (spring 2000)
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, The General 1927 (fall 2001)
Buster Keaton Our Hospitality 1924 (spring 2003)
Stanley Kubrick Dr Strangelove 1964 (spring 2002)
Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory, 1957 (fall 2000)
Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala, 1974 (spring 2001)
Akira Kurosawa, Kumonosu jo/Throne of Blood, 1957 (Spring 2004)
Akira Kurosawa, Rashômon 1950 (spring 2002)
Fritz Lang, M, 1931 (fall 2002)
Fritz Lang Metropolis 1927 (spring 2003)
Fritz Lang, You Only Live Once,1939 (spring 2004)
David Lean Great Expectations 1946 (spring 2003)
Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar 1930 (fall 2001/spring 2002)*
Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter 1955 (fall 2001)
Sergio Leone, C’era un volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968 (spring 2001)
Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar 1930 (fall 2001/spring 2002)*
Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 (spring 2001)
Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, 1939 (fall 2000)
Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise 1932 (fall 2001)
Alexander Mackendrick, Sweet Smell of Success 1957 (fall 2001)
Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven 1978 (fall 2001)
Ruben Mamoulian, Queen Christina, 1933 (fall 2002)
Joseph Mankiewicz, All About Eve, 1950 (fall 2000)
Peter Medak The Ruling Class 1972 (spring 2003)
Nikita Mikhalkov, Utomlyonnye solntsem/Burnt by the Sun, 1994 (fall 2000)
Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front,1930 (spring 2004)
Kenji Misoguchi Ugetsu monogatari/Ugetsu 1953 (spring 2003)
F.W. Murnau, Sunrise, 1927 (fall 2002)
Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966 (fall 2000)
Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story, 1953 (fall 2002)
Georg Pabst, Die Büchse der Pandora/Pandora’s Box 1929 (fall 2001)
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, 1969 (fall 2002)
Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 (spring2000)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going 1945 (spring 2002)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943 (spring 2004)
Otto Preminger, Laura, 1944 (fall 2000)
Nicolas Ray, In a Lonely Place 1950 (spring 2002)
Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali 1955 (spring 2002)
Carol Reed, The Third Man, 1949 (fall 2002)
Jean Renoir, La Grande illusion/The Grand Illusion, 1937 (fall 2000)
Jean Renoir, La Règle du jeu/The Rules of the Game, 1939 (fall 2002)
Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will, 1934 (spring 2000)
Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, 1973 (fall 2001)
Roberto Rossellini, Roma, città aperta/Open City, 1945 (fall 2002)
Robert Rossen, The Hustler 1961 (spring 2002)
John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969 (fall 2000)
Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets 1973 (spring 2002)
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, 1980 (spring 2000)
Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver 1976 (spring 2003)
Josef von Sternberg, Der Blaue EngelThe Blue Angel 1930 (spring 2002)
Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve, 1941 (spring 2004)
Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels 1942 (fall 2001)
Andrei Tarkovsky Offret/The Sacrifice 1986 (spring 2003)
Jacques Tourneur Out of the Past 1947 (fall 2003)
François Truffaut, Jules et Jim/Jules and Jim, 1961 (spring 2004)
François Truffaut, La Nuit américaine/Day for Night, 1973 (fall 2002)
W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, 1934. (fall 2002)
King Vidor, The Big Parade,1925 (spring 2001)
Luchino Visconti, Il Gattopardo/The Leopard 1963 (fall 2001)
Luchino Visconti, Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and his Brothers, 1960 (spring 2004)
Erich von Stroheim, Greed, 1925 (spring 2004)
Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, 1958 (spring 2000)
William A. Wellman, The Ox Bow Incident, 1943 (spring 2004)
William Wellman, The Public Enemy, 1931 (spring 2000)
James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 (spring 2001)
Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, 1944 (spring 2000)
Billy Wilder, Some Like it Hot 1959 (spring 2002)
Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard 1950 (fall 2001)
Sam Wood, A Night at the Opera, 1935 (spring 2000)
Fred Zinneman, From Here to Eternity, 1953 (spring 2004)
Fred Zinnemann, High Noon, 1952 (spring 2000)
King Vidor, The Big Parade,1925 (spring 2001)
Erich von Stroheim, Greed, 1925 (spring 2004)
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, The General 1927 (fall 2001)
Fritz Lang Metropolis 1927 (fall 2003)
F.W. Murnau, Sunrise, 1927 (fall 2002)
Georg Pabst, Die Büchse der Pandora/Pandora’s Box 1929 (fall 2001)
Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front,1930 (spring 2004)
Josef von Sternberg, Der Blaue EngelThe Blue Angel 1930 (spring 2002)
Mervyn LeRoy, Little Caesar 1930 (fall 2001, spring 2002)*
Fritz Lang, M, 1931 (fall 2002)
William Wellman, The Public Enemy, 1931 (spring 2000)
Howard Hawks Scarface 1932 (fall 2003)
Ernst Lubitsch Trouble in Paradise 1932 (fall 2001)
Lloyd Bacon, 42nd Street, 1933 (spring 2000)
Mervyn LeRoy, Gold Diggers of 1933, 1933 (spring 2001)
Ruben Mamoulian, Queen Christina, 1933 (fall 2002)
Frank Capra, It Happened One Night, 1934 (spring 2000)
Cedric Gibbons Tarzan and his Mate 1934 (fall 2003)
W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, 1934 (fall 2002)
Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph des Willens/Triumph of the Will, 1934 (spring 2000)
James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 (spring 2001)
Sam Wood, A Night at the Opera, 1935 (spring 2000)
Jean Renoir, La Grande illusion/The Grand Illusion, 1937 (fall 2000)
Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka, 1939 (fall 2000)
Jean Renoir, La Règle du jeu/The Rules of the Game, 1939 (fall 2002)
Fritz Lang, You Only Live Once,1939 (spring 2004)
John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940 (spring 2000)
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, 1941 (spring 2004)
Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve, 1941 (spring 2004)
John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, 1941 (fall 2002)
Preston Sturges, Sullivan’s Travels 1942 (fall 2001)
Sergei Eisenstein, Ivan Groznyj I & II/Ivan the Terrible parts I & II parts I & II, 1943 & 1946 (spring 2001)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943 (spring 2004)
William A. Wellman, The Ox Bow Incident, 1943 (spring 2004)
Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, 1944 (spring 2000)
Otto Preminger, Laura, 1944 (fall 2000)
Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du paradis/Children of Paradise, 1945 (spring 2001)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, I Know Where I'm Going 1945 (spring 2002)
Roberto Rossellini, Roma, città aperta/Open City, 1945 (fall 2002)
Jean Cocteau, Belle et la bête/Beauty and the Beast, 1946 (spring 2000)
David Lean Great Expectations 1946 (fall 2003)
Alfred Hitchcock, Notorious, 1946 (fall 2000)
Vittorio De Sica, Ladri di bicyclette/Bicycle Thieves, 1947 (spring 2001)
Jacques Tourneur Out of the Past 1947 (fall 2003)
Carol Reed, The Third Man, 1949 (fall 2002)
Joseph Mankiewicz, All About Eve, 1950 (fall 2000)
John Houston, The Asphalt Jungle, 1950 (spring 2004)
Nicolas Ray, In a Lonely Place 1950 (spring 2000)
Akira Kurosawa, Rashômon 1950 (spring 2002)
Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard 1950 (fall 2001)
Fred Zinnemann, High Noon, 1952 (spring 2000)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain 1952 (spring 2004)
Fred Zinneman, From Here to Eternity, 1953 (spring 2004)
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Le Salaire de la peur/Wages of Fear 1953 (fall 2000)
Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo monogatari/Tokyo Story, 1953 (fall 2002)
Kenji Misoguchi Ugetsu monogatari/Ugetsu 1953 (spring 2003)
Elia Kazan, On the Waterfront, 1954 (spring 2000)
Robert Aldrich Kiss Me Deadly, 1955 (spring 2001)
Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter 1955 (fall 2001)
Satyajit Ray, Pather Panchali 1955 (spring 2002)
John Ford The Searchers 1956 (fall 2003)
Akira Kurosawa, Kumonosu jo/Throne of Blood, 1957 (spring 2004)
Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory, 1957 (fall 2000)
Alexander Mackendrick, Sweet Smell of Success 1957 (fall 2001)
Marcel Camus, Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus, 1958 (fall 2002)
Orson Welles, Touch of Evil, 1958 (spring 2000)
Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo 1958 (fall 2003)
Jean-Luc Godard, À bout de souffle/Breathless 1959 (spring 2002)
Billy Wilder, Some Like it Hot 1959 (spring 2002)
Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita, 1960
Luchino Visconti, Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and his Brothers, 1960 (spring 2004)
Robert Rossen, The Hustler 1961
François Truffaut, Jules et Jim/Jules and Jim, 1961 (spring 2004)
Luis Buñuel, El Ángel exterminador/The Exterminating Angel, 1962 (spring 2001)
John Ford, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 (spring 2002)
Luchino Visconti, Il Gattopardo/The Leopard 1963 (fall 2001)
Jean-Luc Godard Le Mépris/Contempt 1963 (fall 2003)
Stanley Kubrick Dr Strangelove 1964 (spring 2002)
Mike Nichols, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966 (fall 2000)
Luis Buñuel, Belle de Jour, 1967 (fall 2002)
Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 (spring 2000)
John Cassavetes, Faces, 1968 (fall 2002)
Lindsay Anderson, if... 1968 (spring 2002)
Sergio Leone, C’era un volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West, 1968 (spring 2004)
John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, 1969 (fall 2000)
Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, 1969 (fall 2002)
Bernardo Bertolucci, Il Conformista/The Conformist, 1970 (fall 2001)
William Friedkin, The French Connection, 1971 (spring 2001)
Peter Bogdanovitch, The Last Picture Show, 1971 (spring 2001)
Peter Medak The Ruling Class 1972 (fall 2003)
François Truffaut, La Nuit a.Américaine/Day for Night, 1973 (fall 2002)
Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now, 1973 (fall 2001)
Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets 1973 (spring 2002)
Akira Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala, 1974 (spring 2001)
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975 (fall 2002)
John Huston, The Man Who Would be King, 1975 (spring 2001)
Robert Altman, Nashville 1975 (spring 2001)
Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver 1976 (fall 2003)
Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep, 1977 (spring 2001)
Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven 1978 (fall 2001)
Bob Fosse, All that Jazz, 1979 (fall 2000)
Connie Field, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, 1980 (fall 2000)
Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull, 1980 (spring 2000)
Andrei Tarkovsky Offret/The Sacrifice 1986 (fall 2003)
Terry Gilliam The Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1988 (fall 2001)
Peter Greenaway, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, 1989 (fall 2000)
Nikita Mikhalkov, Utomlyonnye solntsem/Burnt by the Sun, 1994 (fall 2000)
Jim Jarmusch Dead Man 1995 (fall 2003)
Pedro Almodóvar Habla con ella/Talk to Her 2002 (fall 2003)
*Little Caesar was scheduled for September 11, 2001. The theater screened the film, since some people came to see it, but the Buffalo Film Seminar was cancelled that night. The film opened our fall 2002 series.