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Reading Selection List Epic : Beowulf (Old English) Gilgamesh (Sumerian) Kebra Nagast (The Glory of the Kings) (Ethiopic) La Chanson de Roland (Song of Roland) (French) Mahabharata (Sanskrit) Popol Vuh (Book of Counsel) (Maya) Son-Jara or Sundiata (Maninka or Bamana) Heike Monogatari (The Tale of the Heike) (Japanese) Utendi wa Tambuka (The Story of Tambuka) (Swahili) Táin Bó Cúailnge (The Cattle Raid of Cooley or The Tain) (Old Irish) Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval or Lancelot (French) Dante Alighieri, La Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy) (Italian) John Milton, Paradise Lost (English) Hesiod, Erga kaí Hēmérai (Works and Days) or Theogony (Greek) Homer, Iliad, Odyssey (Greek) Ludovico Ariosto, L'Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando) (Italian) Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas ( The Lusiads) (Portuguese) Michael Madhusuda Datta, Meghnad-badh kabya (The Slaying of Meghanada) (Bengali) Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (Italian) Valmiki, Ramayana (Sanskrit) Wolfram von Eschenbach,Parzival (German) Vergil, Aeneid (Latin) Lyric An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry (Urdu) An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry (ed. Earl Miner) (Japanese) Kokinshu poems (Japanese) Mu'allaqat (Hanging Poems) (classical Arabic) The Hindi Classical Tradition (Snell’s edition) (Hindi) Treasury (Vidyakara’s edition) (Sanskrit) Abu Nuwas (classical Arabic) Aime Cesaire (especially Cahier d'un retour au pays natal) (French) Alexander Pope (English) al-Mutanabbi (classical Arabic) Anna Akhmatova (especially Requiem) (Russian) Arnaut Daniel (Occitan) Arthur Rimbaud (French) Bernart de Ventadorn (Occitan) César Vallejo (espeically Los Heraldos Negros) (Spanish) Charles Baudelaire (especially Les Fleurs du mal) (French) Chris Abani (English) Constantine Cavafy (modern Greek) Denis Brutus (English) Derek Walcott (English) Du Fu (Chinese) Edgar Allen Poe (English) Edmund Spenser (especially The Fairie Queen) (English) Elizabeth Bishop (English) Emily Dickinson (English) Eugenio Montale (especially Ossi di seppia) (Italian) Ezra Pound (English) Federico Garcia Lorca (Spanish) Friedrich Hölderlin (German) Francesco Petrarch (especially Il canzoniere) (Italian) Gabriele D'Annunzio (especially Il Trionfo della Morte) (Italian) Gaius Valerius Catullus (Latin)
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Georg Trakl (German) Gertrude Stein (English) Giacomo Leopardi I canti) (Italian) Giorgos Seferis (Greek) Jayadeva, Gita Govinda (Sanskrit) John Dryden (English) John Keats (English) John Milton (English) Joseph Brodsky (Russian) Juan de la Cruz (Spanish) Juan Ruiz (especially Libro del Buen Amor [Book of Good Love]) (Spanish) Judah Ha-Levi and Shmuel ha-Nagid (Hebrew) Jules Laforgue (French) Kabir (especially The Weaver's Songs) (Hindi) Kalidasa (especially Meghaduta or Sakuntala) (Sanskrit) LiPo and TuFu (from Arthur Cooper’s Penguin edition) (Chinese) Louise Bennet (Creole) Mahmud Darwish (Arabic) Marianne Moore (English) Mazisi Kunene (especially Emperor Shaka the Great) (Zulu) Michelangelo (especially sonnets) (Italian) Niccolò Foscolo (especially I sepolcri and/or Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis) (Italian) Nizar al-Qabbani (Arabic) Octavio Paz (Spanish) Odysseas Elytis (Greek) Ovid, Metamorphoses (Latin) Pablo Neruda (Spanish) Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali) Rainer Maria Rilke (German) Ralph Waldo Emerson (English) Robert Frost (English) Rubén Dario (especially Azul) (Spanish) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Sappho (Greek) Sédar Senghor (French, Senegal) Sextus Propertius (Latin) Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (Hebrew) Stéphane Mallarmé (French) T. S. Eliot (English) W. H. Auden (English) Wallace Stevens (English) Walt Whitman (English) William Butler Yeats (English) William Carlos Williams (English) William Shakespeare (English) William Wordsworth (English) Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew) Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russian) Drama Everyman (Old English) Aeschylus, Oresteia (or any other drama) (Greek) Anton Chekhov, Vishniovy sad (The Cherry Orchard) (or any other drama) (Russian) Aristophanes, Lysistrata (or any other drama) (Greek) August Wilson, The Piano Lesson (or any other drama) (English) Bertolt Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage) (or any other drama) (German) Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine (1978) (English) Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Shinjūten no Amijima (Love Suicides of Amijima) (Japanese) Dario Fo Mistero buffo (Comic Mysteries) or Morte accidentale di un anarchico (Accidental Death of an Anarchist) (Italian)
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David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly (English) Eduardo De Filippo, Filumena Marturano (Italian) Euripides, Bacchae (or any other drama) (Greek) Friedrich von Schiller, Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) or Der Geisterseher(The Ghost-Seer) (German) Georg Büchner, Woyzeck (German) George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (or any other drama) (English) George Lillo, London Merchant (English) Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (Norwegian) Isaac Babel, Sunset (Russian) Jean Racine, Phèdre (French) Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust (German) John Dryden, All for Love (English) Luigi Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author)Henry IV (Italian) Molière, Misanthrope (French) Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) (Gikuyu) Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (English) Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La Vida es sueño (Life Is a Dream) (Spanish) R. B. Sheridan, School for Scandal (English) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot or Endgame (English) Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (or any other drama) (Greek) Tang Hsien-tsu, Mudanting (Peony Pavilion) (Chinese) Tawfiq al-Hakim, Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays (Arabic) Tony Kushner, Angels in America (English, US) Utpal Dutt, Three Plays (Bengali) William Shakespeare (any drama) (English) Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite or Death and the King’s Horseman (English) Zeami, Hagoromo (The Feather Mantle )(any Noh play) (Japanese) Essays, Criticism, Memoir, and Other The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) African Folktales (ed. Roger Abrahams) (various) Hebrew Bible (esp. Genesis and Exodus) (Hebrew) Kalila wa-Dimna (Arabic, Persian, and Hindi) Qur’an (Arabic) New Testament (esp. Matthew, Acts, Epistle to the Romans]) (Greek) Al-Jahiz, Kitab al-Bukhala (Book of Misers) or Risdlat al-qiydn (Epistle on the Singing Girls) (classical Arabic) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arkhipelag GULAG (1973) (Russian) Anton Chekhov, "Duel" (The Duel) and Dama s sobachkoi (Lady with A Dog) (or any other short story) (Russian) Aristotle, Poetics (Greek) Augustine, Confessiones (Confessions) (Latin) Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (English) Christine de Pizan, Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) (French) Denis Diderot, Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, Lettre sur les Sourds et Muets (or any other text) (French) Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth) (French) Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy (German) Garcilaso de la Vega (especially Comentarios reales de los incas [Royal Commentaries of the Incas]) (Spanish) Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Middle English) Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera (English and Spanish) Hayyim Nahman Bialik, “The Pool,” “City of Slaughter” or “Desert Dead” (Hebrew) Horace, Ars Poetica (Latin) Isaac Babel, Odessa Tales (short stories) (Russian) Ismat Chughtai, Short Stories or The Crooked Line (Urdu) James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (English) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or Confessions (French) Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (Spanish) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (English) Longinus, On Sublimity (Greek) Mahasweta Devi, “Pterodactyl,” “Puran Sahay,” and “Pirtha” (Bengali) Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
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Mary Rowlandson, Captivity (English) Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (English) Nathalie Sarraute, Tropismes or Enfance (French) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (English) Niccolò Machiavelli, La Mandragola or Il Principe (Italian) Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Russian) Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead or The Armies of the Night (English) Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (English) Plato, Symposium, Phaedrus, or Republic (Greek) Sadaat Hasan Manto, Short Stories (Urdu) Sei Shonagon, Pillow Book (Japanese) Sima Qian, Records of the Historian (Chinese) Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Milkman and the Railroad Stories (Yiddish) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (English) Zhuangzi, Chuang-tzǔ (Inner Chapters) (Chinese) Novels Abudlrazak Gurnah, Paradise, Desertion, or By the Sea (English) Abraham B. Yehoshua, Mar Manni (Hebrew) Albert Camus, La Peste or L'Etranger (French) Albert Cohen, Solal (1930) (French) Alejo Carpentier, Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps) (1953) (Spanish) Alessandro Manzoni, I-Promessi Sposi (1827) (Italian) Alex La Guma, In the Fog of the Season’s End (English) Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (Russian) Al-Tayyib Salih, Mawsim al-Higra ilā ash-Shamāl (Season of Migration to the North) (Arabic) Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy or The Rape of Shavi (English) Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines (English) Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness (or any other novel) (Hebrew) Amos Tutuola, The Palm Wine Drinkard (English) André Gide, Les Faux-monnayeurs (1925) (French) André Malraux, La Condition humaine (French) Anita Desai, Baumgartner’s Bombay (English) Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (English) Apuleius, The Golden Ass (Latin) Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1993) (French) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kapalkundala (1866), Vishabriksha (The Poison Tree), or Anandamath (Bengali) Ben Okri, The Famished Road (English) Bessie Head, A Question of Power (English) Bram Stoker, Dracula (English) Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (English) Camara Laye L’Enfant Noir (French) Cao Xangin, Hónglóu mèng (Dream of the Red Chamber) (classical Chinese) Carlos Fuentes, La región más transparente (1958) (Spanish) Cesare Pavese, Paesi Tuoi (Italian) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (any novel) (English) Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (English) Cheikh Hamidou Kane, L'aventure ambiguë (French, Senegal) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun (English) Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God or Things Fall Apart (English) Christa Wolf, Nachdenken über Christa T. (1968) (German) Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela (or any other novel) (Portuguese) Dandin, Daśakumāracarita (What Ten Young Men Did) (Sanskrit) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Roxana, or Moll Flanders (English) David Grossman, Ayen erekh—-ahavah (See Under: Love) (Hebrew) Denis Diderot, La Religieuse or Le Neveu de Rameau (or any other novel) (French) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (English) Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (English) E M Forster, A Passage to India (English)
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Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence (English, US) Eduardo Galeano, Memoria del fuego or Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Spanish) Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (English) Elias Canetti, Die Blendung (1935) (German) Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess or Fantomina (English) Elsa Morante La storia or L'isola di Arturo (Italian ) Emile Zola, Germinal (or any other novel) (French) Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (English) Emmanuel Roidis, I Papissa Ioanna (Greek) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (or any other novel) (English) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (or any other novel) (English) Ferdinand Oyono, Une vie de boy (French) Frances Burney, Evelina (English) François Rabelais, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel (any of five novels) (French) Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (German) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Besy, Brat'ya Karamazovy, or Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Russian) G. V. Desani, All about H. Hatterr (English) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cien años de soledad (Spanish) Gaius Petronius, Satyricon (Latin) George Eliot, Middlemarch (or any other novel) (English) George Lamming, The Emigrants (English) George Sand, Indiana (French) Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi (French) Germaine de Staël, Corinne (French) Giovanni Verga, I Malavoglia (Italian) Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron (Italian) Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (Italian) Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel (1959) or Katz und Maus (1961) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (or any other novel) (French) Heinrich Böll, Billard um halb zehn (1959) or Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1974) Heliodorus, Aethiopica (Greek) Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (English) Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (or any other novel) (English) Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (English) Honoré de Balzac, Illusions perdues or Le Père Goriot (French) Haruki Murakami,Noruwei no mori (Norwegian Wood) (or any other novel) (Japanese) Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Slave (Yiddish) Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus, La ciudad de las bestias (or any other novel) (Spanish) Italo Calvino, I sentieri dei nidi di ragno or Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (Italian) Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno and Senilità (Italian) Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Otcy i Deti (Fathers and Sons) (Russian) J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians (English) James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (English) James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer, or The Pathfinder (English) James Joyce, Ulysses (English) Jane Austen (any novel) (English) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (English) Jean Toomer, Cane (English) Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée (French) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1787) (German) John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress (English) John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath (English) Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (English) Jorge Isaacs, Maria (Spanish) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (English) Kenzaburō Ōe, Warera no kyōki wo ikinobiru michi wo oshieyo (or any other novel) (Japanese) Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country (Japanese) Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (English) Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy (English)
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Kyokutei Bakin, Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (Tale of the Eight Dogs) (1814-1842) (Japanese) Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy (English) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina or Voyná i mir War and Peace) (Russian) Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass (Greek) Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (Portuguese) Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves (French) Manuel Puig, La traición de Rita Hayworth or El beso de la mujer araña (Spanish) Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (or any other novel) (French) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (English) Marguerite Duras, L'Amant or Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (French) Marguerite Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien (French) Mariama Ba, Une si longue letter (French) Mario Vargas Llosa, La fiesta del chivo, La casa verde or La guerra del fin del mundo (or any other novel) (Spanish) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (English) Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon (French) Matsuo Basho, Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North) (1694) (Japanese) Max Frisch, Stiller (1954) (German) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (English) Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter (or any other novel) (English) Michel Butor, L'Emploi du temps or La Modification (French) Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Spanish) Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Russian) Mikhail Sholokhov, Tikhii Don (Russian) Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (English) Mirza Hadi Ruswa, Umrao Jaan Ada (Urdu) Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935) (English) Murasaki, Tale of Genji (Japanese) Nadine Gordimer, July’s People (English, South Africa) Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo Trilogy (Arabic, Egypt) [any of three] Natalia Ginzberg, Caro Michele or Le piccole virtù (Italian) Nathaiel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter or House of Seven Gables (English) Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Petals of Blood or Caitaani mutharaba-Ini(Devil on the Cross)(English and Gikuyu) Nikos Kazantzakis, Odyssey, a modern sequel (Greek) Nurridin Farah, Gifts or Maps (English) Ousmane Sembene, Les bouts de bois de Dieu. (French) Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo (Italian) Rabindranath Tagore, Gora (or any other novel) (Bengali) Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (English) Roberto Bolaño Ávalos, Los detectives salvajes (Spanish) Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children or Satanic Verses or Shame (English) Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (English) Samuel Richardson, Pamela or Clarissa (English) Stendhal, Le Rouge et le noir or La Chartreuse de Parme (French) Tahar Ben Jelloun, L'Enfant de sable or Hospitalité française (French) Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Makioka Sisters (Japanese) Thomas Bernhard, Korrektur (1975) or Wittgensteins Neffe (1982) (German) Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg (Magic Mountain) (German) Thomas Mofolo, Chaka (Sesotho) Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon or Gravity’s Rainbow (English) Toni Morrison, Beloved (English) Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (English) Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa (Italian) V. S. Naipaul, House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Mimic Men (English) Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate (Russian) Victor Hugo, Les Misérables or Notre-Dame de Paris (French) Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts, Mrs Dalloway (or any other novel) (English) Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire or Lolita (English) Voltaire, Candide (French) W M Thackeray, Vanity Fair (or any other novel) (English)
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W. G. Sebald, Die Ausgewanderten (1992) or Austerlitz (2001) (German) Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, My Antonia (or any other novel) (English) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom (English) Yaakov Shabtai, Past Continuous (Hebrew) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (English) Film Agnés Varda, Cleo from 5 to 7 [1962] or Sans toit ni loi [1985] (French) Agnieszka Holland, Europa Europa [1990] (German) Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon [1950] (87 min) or Ran [1985] (Japanese) Alain Resnais, L'annee derniere a Marienbad [1961] (French) Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo [1958] (126 min) (or any other film) (English) Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia [1983] (120 min) (Russian) Ang Lee, Xi yan (1993) (Chinese) Bernardo Bertolucci, Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972), Il conformista [1970], or L'ultimo imperatore [1987] (or any other film) (Italian) Buster Keaton, The General [1927]; Sherlock Jr. (English) Carl Theodor Dreyer, La passion de Jeanne d'arc, Vredens Dag, Ordet (126 min); Vampyr (French) Chantal Akerman, Jeaane Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [1975] (198 min) (French) Charlie Chaplin, Gold Rush [1925]; Modern Times, The Kid, City Lights (English) Chen Kaige, Huáng tǔdì (Yellow Earth)[1984] (Chinese) Chris Marker, La jetee [1962] (25 min) (French) Claude Lanzmann, Shoah [1986] (English, German, Hebrew, etc.) D. W. Griffith, Intolerance [1916] (English) Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ménilmontant (1926) (French/Russian) Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera [1929] (Russian) Eric Rohmer, Ma nuit chez Maud (or any other film) (French) Erich von Stroheim, Greed [1924] (English) F. W. Murnau, Der Letze Mann [1924]; Nosferatu (German) Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita [1960] or Amarcord [1973] (or any other film) (Italian) Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now [1979] (English) François Truffaut, Jules et Jim [1962] (or any other film) (French) Fritz Lang, M (Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder [1931]; Metropolis (1927)(German) Gabriel Axel, Babettes gaetebud (Babette’s Feast) (1987) (Danish) George Melies, Voyage dans la lune; Voyage à travers l'impossible(1904) (French) Germaine Dulac, La Coquille Et Le Clergyman [1928] (41 min) La souriante Mdme Beudet (French) Gillo Pontecorvo, La Battaglia di Algeri [1966] (French) Glauber Rocha, Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol [1964] (Spanish) Gutiérrez Alea, Memories of Underdevelopment [1968] (Spanish) Hollis Frampton, Hapax legomena [1971] (30 min) (English) Hou Hsiao-hsien, Xi meng ren sheng (The Puppetmaster) (Chinese) Howard Hawks: Bringing Up Baby [1938]; His Girl Friday [1940] (English) Listen to Britain [1942] (english) Ingmar Bergman, Persona [1966] (80 min) (or any other film) (English) Jacques Tati, Les vacances de M. Hulot (1953) (80 min) (French) Jane Campion, The Piano [1993] (English) Jean Epstein, La chute de la maison d’Usher [1928] (French) Jean Renoir, La regle du jeu [1939]; La Grade Illusion (French) Jean-Luc Godard, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle; Pierrot le fou [1965] (45 min) (French) Jean-Marie Straub, Nicht Versohnt [1965] Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter [1968] (25 min) (German) Jiang Wen, Devils on the Doorstep (Chinese) Jorge Sanjines, Blood of the Condor [1969] (Spanish) Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust (1991) (English) Kenji Mizoguchi, Ugetsu Monogatari [1953] (Japanese) Kinugasa Teinosuke, Kurutta Ippeiji [1926] (Japanese) Leni Riefenstahl, Das Triumph des Willens [1934] (German) Liliana Cavani, Il Portiere di notte [1974] (Italian) Lina Wertmuller, Pasqualino Settebellezze [1975] (Italian) Luchino Visconti, Il Gattopardo [1963] or Death in Venice [1971] (Italian)
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Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, Un chien andalou, L'age d'or (French) Luis Buñuel, Viridiana [1961], Los Olvidados; Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (27 min) (Spanish) Lumière, Méliès, and Griffith, Selected Short Films [1895-1915] Man Ray, L’Etoile de mer [1928] (French) Marcel L'Herbier, L'Argent [1928] (French) Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied [1989] (English) Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets [1973] (112 min); Raging Bull (English) Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon [1943] (15 min), At Land (15 min) (English) Michael Snow, Wavelength [1967] (45 min) (English) Michelangelo Antonioni, L'avventura, L'eclisse (123 min) (Italian) Orson Welles, Citizen Kane [1941] (or any other film) (English) Oscar Micheaux, Body and Soul [1924] (or any other film) (English) Ousmane Sembene, Ceddo [1977], Faat Kiné [2000], Moolaadé [2004] (French, Wolof, Bambara) Pedro Almodovar, Todo sobre mi madre (1999) (or any other film) (Spanish) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Uccellaci, uccellini and/or Teorema (Italian) Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve [1941] (English) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Angst essen Seele auf (1974) (or any other film) (German) Robert Bresson, Pickpocket (75 min) Le journal d'un cure de compagne, or Au hasard Balthazar (or any other film) (French) Robert Wiene, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [1920] (German) Roberto Rossellini, Roma, citta aperta [1945] (100 min), Paisa (Italian) Sally Potter, Orlando [1992] (English) Satyajit Ray, The Apu Trilogy [1955, 1956, 1960] (Bengali) Sergei Eisenstein, October [1927]; Battleship Potemkin [1925]; Ivan Grozniy [1944] (Russian) Souleymane Cisse, Yeelen [1987] (Bambara) Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing [1989] (or any other film) (English) Stan Brakhage: Anticipation of the Night [1958] (42 min) (English) Vittorio de Sica, Ladri di biciclette (1948) (Italian) Werner Herzog, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1979), Aguirre [1972] (or any other film) (German) Yasujiro Ozu, Tōkyō Monogatari [1953] (Japanese)
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Georg Trakl (German) Gertrude Stein (English) Giacomo Leopardi I canti) (Italian) Giorgos Seferis (Greek) Jayadeva, Gita Govinda (Sanskrit) John Dryden (English) John Keats (English) John Milton (English) Joseph Brodsky (Russian) Juan de la Cruz (Spanish) Juan Ruiz (especially Libro del Buen Amor [Book of Good Love]) (Spanish) Judah Ha-Levi and Shmuel ha-Nagid (Hebrew) Jules Laforgue (French) Kabir (especially The Weaver's Songs) (Hindi) Kalidasa (especially Meghaduta or Sakuntala) (Sanskrit) LiPo and TuFu (from Arthur Cooper’s Penguin edition) (Chinese) Louise Bennet (Creole) Mahmud Darwish (Arabic) Marianne Moore (English) Mazisi Kunene (especially Emperor Shaka the Great) (Zulu) Michelangelo (especially sonnets) (Italian) Niccolò Foscolo (especially I sepolcri and/or Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis) (Italian) Nizar al-Qabbani (Arabic) Octavio Paz (Spanish) Odysseas Elytis (Greek) Ovid, Metamorphoses (Latin) Pablo Neruda (Spanish) Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali) Rainer Maria Rilke (German) Ralph Waldo Emerson (English) Robert Frost (English) Rubén Dario (especially Azul) (Spanish) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English) Sappho (Greek) Sédar Senghor (French, Senegal) Sextus Propertius (Latin) Shlomo Ibn Gabirol (Hebrew) Stéphane Mallarmé (French) T. S. Eliot (English) W. H. Auden (English) Wallace Stevens (English) Walt Whitman (English) William Butler Yeats (English) William Carlos Williams (English) William Shakespeare (English) William Wordsworth (English) Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew) Yevgeny Yevtushenko (Russian) Drama Everyman (Old English) Aeschylus, Oresteia (or any other drama) (Greek) Anton Chekhov, Vishniovy sad (The Cherry Orchard) (or any other drama) (Russian) Aristophanes, Lysistrata (or any other drama) (Greek) August Wilson, The Piano Lesson (or any other drama) (English) Bertolt Brecht, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage) (or any other drama) (German) Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine (1978) (English) Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Shinjūten no Amijima (Love Suicides of Amijima) (Japanese) Dario Fo Mistero buffo (Comic Mysteries) or Morte accidentale di un anarchico (Accidental Death of an Anarchist) (Italian)
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David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly (English) Eduardo De Filippo, Filumena Marturano (Italian) Euripides, Bacchae (or any other drama) (Greek) Friedrich von Schiller, Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) or Der Geisterseher(The Ghost-Seer) (German) Georg Büchner, Woyzeck (German) George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (or any other drama) (English) George Lillo, London Merchant (English) Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (Norwegian) Isaac Babel, Sunset (Russian) Jean Racine, Phèdre (French) Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust (German) John Dryden, All for Love (English) Luigi Pirandello, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author)Henry IV (Italian) Molière, Misanthrope (French) Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want) (Gikuyu) Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (English) Pedro Calderón de la Barca, La Vida es sueño (Life Is a Dream) (Spanish) R. B. Sheridan, School for Scandal (English) Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot or Endgame (English) Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (or any other drama) (Greek) Tang Hsien-tsu, Mudanting (Peony Pavilion) (Chinese) Tawfiq al-Hakim, Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays (Arabic) Tony Kushner, Angels in America (English, US) Utpal Dutt, Three Plays (Bengali) William Shakespeare (any drama) (English) Wole Soyinka, The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite or Death and the King’s Horseman (English) Zeami, Hagoromo (The Feather Mantle )(any Noh play) (Japanese) Essays, Criticism, Memoir, and Other The Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) African Folktales (ed. Roger Abrahams) (various) Hebrew Bible (esp. Genesis and Exodus) (Hebrew) Kalila wa-Dimna (Arabic, Persian, and Hindi) Qur’an (Arabic) New Testament (esp. Matthew, Acts, Epistle to the Romans]) (Greek) Al-Jahiz, Kitab al-Bukhala (Book of Misers) or Risdlat al-qiydn (Epistle on the Singing Girls) (classical Arabic) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arkhipelag GULAG (1973) (Russian) Anton Chekhov, "Duel" (The Duel) and Dama s sobachkoi (Lady with A Dog) (or any other short story) (Russian) Aristotle, Poetics (Greek) Augustine, Confessiones (Confessions) (Latin) Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (English) Christine de Pizan, Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) (French) Denis Diderot, Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, Lettre sur les Sourds et Muets (or any other text) (French) Frantz Fanon, Les Damnés de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth) (French) Friedrich Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie (The Birth of Tragedy (German) Garcilaso de la Vega (especially Comentarios reales de los incas [Royal Commentaries of the Incas]) (Spanish) Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (Middle English) Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera (English and Spanish) Hayyim Nahman Bialik, “The Pool,” “City of Slaughter” or “Desert Dead” (Hebrew) Horace, Ars Poetica (Latin) Isaac Babel, Odessa Tales (short stories) (Russian) Ismat Chughtai, Short Stories or The Crooked Line (Urdu) James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (English) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or Confessions (French) Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones (Spanish) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (English) Longinus, On Sublimity (Greek) Mahasweta Devi, “Pterodactyl,” “Puran Sahay,” and “Pirtha” (Bengali) Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
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Mary Rowlandson, Captivity (English) Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (English) Nathalie Sarraute, Tropismes or Enfance (French) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (English) Niccolò Machiavelli, La Mandragola or Il Principe (Italian) Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Russian) Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead or The Armies of the Night (English) Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative (English) Plato, Symposium, Phaedrus, or Republic (Greek) Sadaat Hasan Manto, Short Stories (Urdu) Sei Shonagon, Pillow Book (Japanese) Sima Qian, Records of the Historian (Chinese) Sholem Aleichem, Tevye the Milkman and the Railroad Stories (Yiddish) Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (English) Zhuangzi, Chuang-tzǔ (Inner Chapters) (Chinese) Novels Abudlrazak Gurnah, Paradise, Desertion, or By the Sea (English) Abraham B. Yehoshua, Mar Manni (Hebrew) Albert Camus, La Peste or L'Etranger (French) Albert Cohen, Solal (1930) (French) Alejo Carpentier, Los pasos perdidos (The Lost Steps) (1953) (Spanish) Alessandro Manzoni, I-Promessi Sposi (1827) (Italian) Alex La Guma, In the Fog of the Season’s End (English) Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (Russian) Al-Tayyib Salih, Mawsim al-Higra ilā ash-Shamāl (Season of Migration to the North) (Arabic) Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy or The Rape of Shavi (English) Amitav Ghosh, Shadow Lines (English) Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness (or any other novel) (Hebrew) Amos Tutuola, The Palm Wine Drinkard (English) André Gide, Les Faux-monnayeurs (1925) (French) André Malraux, La Condition humaine (French) Anita Desai, Baumgartner’s Bombay (English) Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (English) Apuleius, The Golden Ass (Latin) Assia Djebar, L'Amour, la fantasia (1993) (French) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Kapalkundala (1866), Vishabriksha (The Poison Tree), or Anandamath (Bengali) Ben Okri, The Famished Road (English) Bessie Head, A Question of Power (English) Bram Stoker, Dracula (English) Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (English) Camara Laye L’Enfant Noir (French) Cao Xangin, Hónglóu mèng (Dream of the Red Chamber) (classical Chinese) Carlos Fuentes, La región más transparente (1958) (Spanish) Cesare Pavese, Paesi Tuoi (Italian) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (any novel) (English) Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (English) Cheikh Hamidou Kane, L'aventure ambiguë (French, Senegal) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun (English) Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God or Things Fall Apart (English) Christa Wolf, Nachdenken über Christa T. (1968) (German) Clarice Lispector, A hora da estrela (or any other novel) (Portuguese) Dandin, Daśakumāracarita (What Ten Young Men Did) (Sanskrit) Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Roxana, or Moll Flanders (English) David Grossman, Ayen erekh—-ahavah (See Under: Love) (Hebrew) Denis Diderot, La Religieuse or Le Neveu de Rameau (or any other novel) (French) Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (English) Djuna Barnes, Nightwood (English) E M Forster, A Passage to India (English)
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Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence (English, US) Eduardo Galeano, Memoria del fuego or Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Spanish) Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (English) Elias Canetti, Die Blendung (1935) (German) Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess or Fantomina (English) Elsa Morante La storia or L'isola di Arturo (Italian ) Emile Zola, Germinal (or any other novel) (French) Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (English) Emmanuel Roidis, I Papissa Ioanna (Greek) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (or any other novel) (English) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (or any other novel) (English) Ferdinand Oyono, Une vie de boy (French) Frances Burney, Evelina (English) François Rabelais, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel (any of five novels) (French) Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis (German) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Besy, Brat'ya Karamazovy, or Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Russian) G. V. Desani, All about H. Hatterr (English) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cien años de soledad (Spanish) Gaius Petronius, Satyricon (Latin) George Eliot, Middlemarch (or any other novel) (English) George Lamming, The Emigrants (English) George Sand, Indiana (French) Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi (French) Germaine de Staël, Corinne (French) Giovanni Verga, I Malavoglia (Italian) Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron (Italian) Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Il Gattopardo (Italian) Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel (1959) or Katz und Maus (1961) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (or any other novel) (French) Heinrich Böll, Billard um halb zehn (1959) or Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1974) Heliodorus, Aethiopica (Greek) Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (English) Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (or any other novel) (English) Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (English) Honoré de Balzac, Illusions perdues or Le Père Goriot (French) Haruki Murakami,Noruwei no mori (Norwegian Wood) (or any other novel) (Japanese) Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Slave (Yiddish) Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus, La ciudad de las bestias (or any other novel) (Spanish) Italo Calvino, I sentieri dei nidi di ragno or Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (Italian) Italo Svevo, La coscienza di Zeno and Senilità (Italian) Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Otcy i Deti (Fathers and Sons) (Russian) J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the Barbarians (English) James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (English) James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, The Deerslayer, or The Pathfinder (English) James Joyce, Ulysses (English) Jane Austen (any novel) (English) Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (English) Jean Toomer, Cane (English) Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée (French) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1787) (German) John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress (English) John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath (English) Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (English) Jorge Isaacs, Maria (Spanish) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (English) Kenzaburō Ōe, Warera no kyōki wo ikinobiru michi wo oshieyo (or any other novel) (Japanese) Kawabata Yasunari, Snow Country (Japanese) Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day (English) Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy (English)
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Kyokutei Bakin, Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (Tale of the Eight Dogs) (1814-1842) (Japanese) Laurence Sterne, Tristam Shandy (English) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina or Voyná i mir War and Peace) (Russian) Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass (Greek) Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (Portuguese) Madame de La Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves (French) Manuel Puig, La traición de Rita Hayworth or El beso de la mujer araña (Spanish) Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (or any other novel) (French) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (English) Marguerite Duras, L'Amant or Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (French) Marguerite Yourcenar, Mémoires d'Hadrien (French) Mariama Ba, Une si longue letter (French) Mario Vargas Llosa, La fiesta del chivo, La casa verde or La guerra del fin del mundo (or any other novel) (Spanish) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (English) Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon (French) Matsuo Basho, Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North) (1694) (Japanese) Max Frisch, Stiller (1954) (German) Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (English) Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter (or any other novel) (English) Michel Butor, L'Emploi du temps or La Modification (French) Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Spanish) Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (Russian) Mikhail Sholokhov, Tikhii Don (Russian) Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (English) Mirza Hadi Ruswa, Umrao Jaan Ada (Urdu) Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935) (English) Murasaki, Tale of Genji (Japanese) Nadine Gordimer, July’s People (English, South Africa) Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo Trilogy (Arabic, Egypt) [any of three] Natalia Ginzberg, Caro Michele or Le piccole virtù (Italian) Nathaiel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter or House of Seven Gables (English) Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Petals of Blood or Caitaani mutharaba-Ini(Devil on the Cross)(English and Gikuyu) Nikos Kazantzakis, Odyssey, a modern sequel (Greek) Nurridin Farah, Gifts or Maps (English) Ousmane Sembene, Les bouts de bois de Dieu. (French) Primo Levi, Se questo è un uomo (Italian) Rabindranath Tagore, Gora (or any other novel) (Bengali) Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (English) Roberto Bolaño Ávalos, Los detectives salvajes (Spanish) Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children or Satanic Verses or Shame (English) Samuel Johnson, Rasselas (English) Samuel Richardson, Pamela or Clarissa (English) Stendhal, Le Rouge et le noir or La Chartreuse de Parme (French) Tahar Ben Jelloun, L'Enfant de sable or Hospitalité française (French) Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Makioka Sisters (Japanese) Thomas Bernhard, Korrektur (1975) or Wittgensteins Neffe (1982) (German) Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg (Magic Mountain) (German) Thomas Mofolo, Chaka (Sesotho) Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon or Gravity’s Rainbow (English) Toni Morrison, Beloved (English) Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (English) Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa (Italian) V. S. Naipaul, House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Mimic Men (English) Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate (Russian) Victor Hugo, Les Misérables or Notre-Dame de Paris (French) Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts, Mrs Dalloway (or any other novel) (English) Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire or Lolita (English) Voltaire, Candide (French) W M Thackeray, Vanity Fair (or any other novel) (English)
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W. G. Sebald, Die Ausgewanderten (1992) or Austerlitz (2001) (German) Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, My Antonia (or any other novel) (English) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom (English) Yaakov Shabtai, Past Continuous (Hebrew) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (English) Film Agnés Varda, Cleo from 5 to 7 [1962] or Sans toit ni loi [1985] (French) Agnieszka Holland, Europa Europa [1990] (German) Akira Kurosawa, Rashomon [1950] (87 min) or Ran [1985] (Japanese) Alain Resnais, L'annee derniere a Marienbad [1961] (French) Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo [1958] (126 min) (or any other film) (English) Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia [1983] (120 min) (Russian) Ang Lee, Xi yan (1993) (Chinese) Bernardo Bertolucci, Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972), Il conformista [1970], or L'ultimo imperatore [1987] (or any other film) (Italian) Buster Keaton, The General [1927]; Sherlock Jr. (English) Carl Theodor Dreyer, La passion de Jeanne d'arc, Vredens Dag, Ordet (126 min); Vampyr (French) Chantal Akerman, Jeaane Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [1975] (198 min) (French) Charlie Chaplin, Gold Rush [1925]; Modern Times, The Kid, City Lights (English) Chen Kaige, Huáng tǔdì (Yellow Earth)[1984] (Chinese) Chris Marker, La jetee [1962] (25 min) (French) Claude Lanzmann, Shoah [1986] (English, German, Hebrew, etc.) D. W. Griffith, Intolerance [1916] (English) Dimitri Kirsanoff, Ménilmontant (1926) (French/Russian) Dziga Vertov, Man with a Movie Camera [1929] (Russian) Eric Rohmer, Ma nuit chez Maud (or any other film) (French) Erich von Stroheim, Greed [1924] (English) F. W. Murnau, Der Letze Mann [1924]; Nosferatu (German) Federico Fellini, La Dolce Vita [1960] or Amarcord [1973] (or any other film) (Italian) Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now [1979] (English) François Truffaut, Jules et Jim [1962] (or any other film) (French) Fritz Lang, M (Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder [1931]; Metropolis (1927)(German) Gabriel Axel, Babettes gaetebud (Babette’s Feast) (1987) (Danish) George Melies, Voyage dans la lune; Voyage à travers l'impossible(1904) (French) Germaine Dulac, La Coquille Et Le Clergyman [1928] (41 min) La souriante Mdme Beudet (French) Gillo Pontecorvo, La Battaglia di Algeri [1966] (French) Glauber Rocha, Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol [1964] (Spanish) Gutiérrez Alea, Memories of Underdevelopment [1968] (Spanish) Hollis Frampton, Hapax legomena [1971] (30 min) (English) Hou Hsiao-hsien, Xi meng ren sheng (The Puppetmaster) (Chinese) Howard Hawks: Bringing Up Baby [1938]; His Girl Friday [1940] (English) Listen to Britain [1942] (english) Ingmar Bergman, Persona [1966] (80 min) (or any other film) (English) Jacques Tati, Les vacances de M. Hulot (1953) (80 min) (French) Jane Campion, The Piano [1993] (English) Jean Epstein, La chute de la maison d’Usher [1928] (French) Jean Renoir, La regle du jeu [1939]; La Grade Illusion (French) Jean-Luc Godard, Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle; Pierrot le fou [1965] (45 min) (French) Jean-Marie Straub, Nicht Versohnt [1965] Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter [1968] (25 min) (German) Jiang Wen, Devils on the Doorstep (Chinese) Jorge Sanjines, Blood of the Condor [1969] (Spanish) Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust (1991) (English) Kenji Mizoguchi, Ugetsu Monogatari [1953] (Japanese) Kinugasa Teinosuke, Kurutta Ippeiji [1926] (Japanese) Leni Riefenstahl, Das Triumph des Willens [1934] (German) Liliana Cavani, Il Portiere di notte [1974] (Italian) Lina Wertmuller, Pasqualino Settebellezze [1975] (Italian) Luchino Visconti, Il Gattopardo [1963] or Death in Venice [1971] (Italian)
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Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, Un chien andalou, L'age d'or (French) Luis Buñuel, Viridiana [1961], Los Olvidados; Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan (27 min) (Spanish) Lumière, Méliès, and Griffith, Selected Short Films [1895-1915] Man Ray, L’Etoile de mer [1928] (French) Marcel L'Herbier, L'Argent [1928] (French) Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied [1989] (English) Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets [1973] (112 min); Raging Bull (English) Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon [1943] (15 min), At Land (15 min) (English) Michael Snow, Wavelength [1967] (45 min) (English) Michelangelo Antonioni, L'avventura, L'eclisse (123 min) (Italian) Orson Welles, Citizen Kane [1941] (or any other film) (English) Oscar Micheaux, Body and Soul [1924] (or any other film) (English) Ousmane Sembene, Ceddo [1977], Faat Kiné [2000], Moolaadé [2004] (French, Wolof, Bambara) Pedro Almodovar, Todo sobre mi madre (1999) (or any other film) (Spanish) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Uccellaci, uccellini and/or Teorema (Italian) Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve [1941] (English) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Angst essen Seele auf (1974) (or any other film) (German) Robert Bresson, Pickpocket (75 min) Le journal d'un cure de compagne, or Au hasard Balthazar (or any other film) (French) Robert Wiene, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari [1920] (German) Roberto Rossellini, Roma, citta aperta [1945] (100 min), Paisa (Italian) Sally Potter, Orlando [1992] (English) Satyajit Ray, The Apu Trilogy [1955, 1956, 1960] (Bengali) Sergei Eisenstein, October [1927]; Battleship Potemkin [1925]; Ivan Grozniy [1944] (Russian) Souleymane Cisse, Yeelen [1987] (Bambara) Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing [1989] (or any other film) (English) Stan Brakhage: Anticipation of the Night [1958] (42 min) (English) Vittorio de Sica, Ladri di biciclette (1948) (Italian) Werner Herzog, Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1979), Aguirre [1972] (or any other film) (German) Yasujiro Ozu, Tōkyō Monogatari [1953] (Japanese)
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