Im gonna be interviewed to see if I get into a film school and I wanna know what films I should watch/talk about that will impress the judges.
My favourite films are: Clockwork Orange, End of Evangelion, Chungking Express, Come and See. Is this enough?
this is the second time im doing this thread, i posted this on Yea Forums cause im a retard.
Say you prefer Italian cinema primarily and then just make up names and movies. The interviewer will pretend to know what you’re talking about and approve you so as not to appear uninformed.
It's not really the amount of films you talk about its what you've got to say about them. Think how those movies affected you and built your passion for film and find out how to best communicate that in words
this is so autistic it might work.
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
They don’t fucking care what movies you like, holy shit. Imagine not letting someone into a school because they don’t like the “right” movies. Get the fuck over yourself and just talk about your passion for film as a medium
you should probably pad it out with some libtard shit. Most art schools are dominated by lefty group thinkers, so exploit that bias.
If you have to ask, you're not getting into film school
Im just a bit nervous about being rejected is all but youre probably right.
I have all of these on DVDs but I still have to see Sierra Madre. Thanks
I'm the poster from the Yea Forums thread who told you to move the thread here, I didn't actually recommend any films though. Do they expect you to discuss your favorite films in the interview, or are you just preparing them as something to talk about? In either case, make sure you come off (and genuinely are) well-versed in cinema. Check out the essentials like Bergman (Seventh Seal, Winter Light, Wild Strawberries), Welles (Citizen Kane, F for Fake, Touch of Evil), Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria) Godard (Contempt, Breathless), important feminist filmmakers like Agnes Varda (Cleo from 5 to 7) and Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman), and other foreign cinema like Tarkovsky (Stalker, The Mirror), Kieslowski (Three Colors, Double Life of Veronique), Kiarostami (Close-Up), Angelopolous (Eternity and a Day), Yang (Brighter Summer Day, Yi Yi). Just make sure you can describe what appeals to you about these films and how they demonstrate excellence in filmmaking.
If they asked you to list your favorite films, I'd include at least one oddball that shows off your personality so that it doesn't seem like you just pulled them all from any "best of all time" list
Don’t go to film school dude, all my friends who did it are unemployed, and that includes someone who’s father is a film executive
What schools did they go to? Were they in master's programs?
NYU, USC, Chapman, no
>2019
>Being so retarded that you go into debt to study for one of the most over saturated and hard to make it in businesses ever.
Damn, from what I've heard they should've been able to make pretty good connections through those schools, but also an undergrad degree related to film seems pretty useless.
I took some film courses in college, and I heard from professors that you get very good opportunities with an MFA (and if you make the most out of the connections you get through the schools). Also, if you don't get a job in the industry with an MFA, you can always fall back on being a professor.
Disclaimer: Not in the industry and didn't go to school for film, just reiterating what I know from people trying to break in the industry and from professors
A bit of both, from what ive seen online, they will probably ask me why i like my favourite films. I think I have a decent knowledge in cinema and am well verrsed but I know that I can improve for sure. I know all of these people but have only seen some of their work. I have all the films torrented on my pc luckily and im planning on spending my weekend watching them. The oddball im thinking of pulling out might be Devil and Daniel Johnston. My favourite documentary about one of my favourite musicians. Maybe ill add a Sion Sono film as well for good measure. Thanks for the advice my dude.
>being afraid to enter a huge, incredibly lucrative industry
Sure, get a degree in accounting instead, if that's more your style. But accounting or compsci or petroleum engineering, etc... aren't reasonable options for everyone.
You have to pick something you're actually willing to do and can be really good at.
You don't need to impress the judges, they just wanted the numbers. You can be maximum pleb and you'll still get in.
What numbers? My grades? They are way above average for what theyre asking.
watch the other kubrick films if you haven't seen them
tell them your favorite film ever is The Birth of a Nation and your admission is 100% guaranteed
Not an amerifag so probably wont work as well.
I've only seen Clockwork Oange, of those films. If all four of them have rapists as protagonists you might wanna check yourself before you wreck yourself. Your favorite films could be red flags to your personality.
One time I was at orientation for waiting tables at a hotel's restaurant. They asked me what my favorite movie was and I'd just watched pic related the night before, and it is one of my favorite movies, so I wrote down "Go". The HR director said "oh I haven't seen that" and looked really interested/enthusiastic. I said "oh, yeah, it's good." Like a week later it was announced that the hotel was going to start doing random drug tests. I always suspected that it was because my 'favorite movie' was all about drugs.
Keks
Regarding good films always say classics like Casablanca , The Godfather , The Shining, Raging Bull, Gone with the Wind , The Wizard of Oz , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, throw in a few of your favs to not sound le cringe edgelord .
yeah Italian is a good move, try to watch some Fellini (a deep cut in his filmography is toby dammit but try 8 1/2) also Pasolini is a great Italian director but definitely controversial. maybe try to look into surrealism - since you like clockwork orange. watch some Godard lolll. French new wave is starter pack but necessary.
OP listen to this guy. very good list to start off with.
you sound like a faggot so I'm sure you'll fit right in
If you wanna make an impression, talk about the excellent editing in Terminator 2. Those guys interview hundreds of pasty, artsy-fartsy kids with the exact same "opinions" and "taste" every day. They'll be pleasantly surprised you chose something other than the same four or five avant-garde, arthouse, pretentious bullshit everyone talks about. Plus, editing is a really strong subject that can work in your favor if you know what you're talking about, and you're safe with a Cameron movie 'cause he's devolved into a vegan, feminist, libshit idiot, just like the people interviewing you.
Personally, if I was applying to film school I would be honest about my favorite movies. I would want to show my knowledge/intelligence/enthusiasm.
I might go out of my way to mention my favorite classics. It wouldn't be Raging Bull because I don't like Scorsese. The Godfather is great but not interesting to me. Casablanca is whatever. I guess I would mention my passion for everything by Hitchcock and Kubrick.
The Trial directed by Orson Welles. They stole a lot of imagery from that movie for the British Invasion of the 60s
Just be yourself
>I'd include at least one oddball
Jesus - just be honest unless you have total pleb taste. Don't say The Double Life of Veronique is one of your favorite movies unless it really is.
I support the idea of watching stuff like Citizen Kane and Breathless, but be honest about what you enjoy after you've seen everything. Go down rabbit holes of movies you really are into.
Nah, here are what movies you seen to say are your favourite
Problem Child 2
Paul Blart Mall Cop
Dark Knight Rises
Bio Dome
>hasn't seen Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
you gotta go to redbox or something man
OP you should post a list of great films you have seen.
America is like the one country it wouldn’t work in tho cuz it’s rayciss