Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Essential Classic Movie Directors


GEORGE BAILEY
Originally uploaded by mueredecine
These are a few of our favorites (generally appropriate for teens and adults)...

Frank Capra

It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
Meet John Doe
Mr. Deeds Comes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
You Can't Take it With You

Michael Curtiz

Adventures of Robin Hood
Angels with Dirty Faces
Casablanca
Yankee Doodle Dandy

John Ford

How Green Was My Valley
The Quiet Man

Alfred Hitchcock

I Confess
North by Northwest
Rear Window
The Wrong Man
To Catch a Thief
Vertigo

George Stevens

Alice Adams
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Greatest Story Ever Told
I Remember Mama
The More the Merrier
Penny Serenade

William Wyler

Ben Hur
Mrs. Miniver
Roman Holiday
Wuthering Heights

There are some others by these directors I should go back and watch again since I don't remember them too well (this pretty much explains the lack of Westerns in the list).

2 comments:

EC Gefroh said...

Wonderful list!! I didn't realize the posts went back this far ;-)

love2learnmom said...

Thanks Esther!

I kind of cheated when I started the blog by copying some of my favorite posts from Studeo and Love2learn Blog. I think it's kind of nice to have them all in once place.