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A-level film studies

I wasn’t able to do film studies at a-level, but i have a strong interest in film as a hobby and was wondering if anyone who did study film, has like, a list of movies they studied during sixth form (or even gsce)? Or does anyone know where i could access such a list, either way is helpful 🤓

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TSR Jessica

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cheadle

Here's the list for the current WJEC Eduqas GCE A LEVEL in FILM STUDIES syllabus.

Section A: Hollywood 1930 - 1990 (comparative study)
Two Hollywood films will be studied for comparison, one chosen from group 1 and one chosen from
group 2:
Group 1: Classical Hollywood (1930-1960)
• Casablanca (Curtiz, 1942), U
• The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1947), PG
• Johnny Guitar (Ray, 1954), PG
• Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958), PG
• Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959), 12
Group 2: New Hollywood (1961-1990)
• Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967), 15
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975), 15
• Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979), 15
• Blade Runner (Scott, 1982), 15*
• Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989), 15.
*Learners study Blade Runner in the Director's Cut version, released 1992.

Section B: American film since 2005 (two-film study)
Two films will be studied, one chosen from group 1 and one chosen from group 2:
Group 1: Mainstream film
• No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007), 15
• Inception (Nolan, 2010), 12A
• Selma (Duvernay, 2014), 12A
• Carol (Haynes, 2015), 15
• La La Land (Chazelle, 2016), 12A
Group 2: Contemporary independent film (produced after 2010)
• Winter's Bone (Granik, 2010), 15
• Frances Ha! (Baumbach, 2012), 15
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin, 2012), 12A
• Boyhood (Linklater, 2015), 15
• Captain Fantastic (Ross, 2015), 15.

Section C: British film since 1995 (two-film study)
Two of the following British films will be studied:
• Secrets and Lies (Leigh, 1996), 15
• Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996), 18
• Sweet Sixteen (Loach, 2002), 18
• Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004), 15
• This is England (Meadows, 2006), 18
• Moon (Jones, 2009), 15
• Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009), 15
• We Need to Talk about Kevin (Ramsay, 2011), 15
• Sightseers (Wheatley, 2012), 15
• Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013), 15.