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David Fincher ('Seven', 'Zodiac') picks the 26 films every film student should see
The famous director is also a big movie buff, so he did not hesitate to recommend his favorite movies. Have you seen them all?
David Fincher is one of the great filmmakers of our time, author of such influential films as ‘Fight Club’, ‘Seven’, ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, ‘The Social Network’ or ‘Zodiac’ (although his debut film ‘Alien 3′ did not convince many fans of the xenomorphs), in addition to directing some episodes and executive producing such outstanding series as ‘House of Cards’ or ‘Mindhunter’. Therefore, the director is also a great cinephile, so he did not hesitate to recommend up to 26 movies that we should all see.
David Fincher’s recommendations in his own handwriting
The director does not hesitate to recommend the films he likes the most, as well as those he considers a source of inspiration for his filmography. Up to 26 films that he has shared in his own handwriting “without any particular order” and among which are great classics like ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Cabaret’, ‘The Godfather II’, ‘Alien’, ‘Jaws’, ‘Citizen Kane’, ‘The Exorcist’ or ‘Terminator’, among others.
- ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ by George Roy Hill, 1969
- ‘Chinatown’ by Roman Polanski, 1974
- ‘Dr. Strangelove’ by Stanley Kubrick, 1964
- ‘The Godfather Part II’ by Francis Ford Coppola, 1974
- ‘Taxi Driver’ by Martin Scorsese, 1976
- ‘Being There’ by Hal Ashby, 1979
- ‘All That Jazz’ by Bob Fosse, 1979
- ‘Alien’ by Ridley Scott, 1979
- ‘Rear Window’ by Alfred Hitchcock, 1954
- ‘Zelig’ by Woody Allen, 1983
- ‘Cabaret’ by Bob Fosse, 1972
- ‘Paper Moon’ by Peter Bogdanovich, 1973
- ‘Jaws’ by Steven Spielberg, 1975
- ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ by David Lean, 1962
- ‘All the President’s Men’ by Alan J. Pakula, 1976
- ‘8½’ by Federico Fellini, 1963
- ‘Citizen Kane’ by Orson Welles, 1941
- ‘Days of Heaven’ by Terrence Malick, 1978
- ‘Animal House’ by John Landis, 1978
- ‘Road Warrior’ by George Miller, 1981
- ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’ by Peter Weir, 1982
- ‘American Graffiti’ by George Lucas, 1973
- ‘Terminator’ by James Cameron, 1984
- ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ by Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, 1975
- ‘The Exorcist’ by William Friedkin, 1973
- ‘The Graduate’ by Mike Nicholls, 1967