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Lista celor 50 de filme pe care (teoretic) trebuie sa le vedeti la 14 ani

S-a incheiat ASTRA FILM.
O sectiune a festivalului din acest an a fost dedicata documentarului
pentru copii, sub tema "diminetile copiilor lumii".
O initiativa extraordinara, menita sa trezeasca si sa formeze copiilor
gustul pentru film!

Iata mai jos, de pe Internet citeva filme pe care sursele urmatoare spun
ca ar fi indicat sa le vedeti ... vizitati paginile din legaturi pentru
detalii.

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*The 50 films you should see by the age of 14* is a list created by the
British Film Institute
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Film_Institute> in 2005 in order
to inspire parents and educators to take movies as seriously as books
and other kinds of art. It was created by more than 70 experts including
film producers, teachers, authors and critics who all made their own top
ten.

Most of the movies are made in other countries, so English-speaking
children will need subtitles for many titles.

The film registering the most votes was /Spirited Away
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away>/, which won the Academy
Award <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award> for best animated
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animated> feature in 2003.

The top ten

The following 40 in alphabetical order

External links

* Top fifty films for children up to the age of 14
<http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/conferences/watchthis/top50.html>

British Film Institute
* Children get must-see movie list
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4699393.stm>

BBC
* The 50 films you should see by the age of 14
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=356395&in_page_id=1773>

Daily Mail
* Our movies your children should see at school
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/our-movies-your-children-should-see-at-school/2005/08/03/1122748696418.html>

Sydney Morning Herald
* Juvenile List
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National review

http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/conferences/watchthis/top50.html

Watch This!

Top fifty films for children up to the age of 14

In alphabetical order:

* A Day at the Races (Sam Wood, 1937, USA)
* The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz/William Keighley,
1938, USA)
* Au revoir les enfants (Louis Malle, 1987, France/W.Germany)
* Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985, USA)
* Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale/Kirk Wise, 1991, USA)
* Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy)
* Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry, 2000, UK/France)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982, USA)
* Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990, USA)
* Etre et Avoir (Nicolas Philibert, 2002, France)
* Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton/Lee Unkrich, 2003, USA)
* It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946, USA)
* Jason and the Argonauts (Don Chaffey, 1963, UK/USA)
* Kes (Ken Loach, 1969, UK)
* The Kid (Charles Chaplin, 1921, USA)
* King Kong (Merian C.Cooper/Ernest B.Schoedsack, 1933, USA)
* Kirikou et la sorcière (Michel Ocelot, 1998,
France/Belgium/Luxembourg)
* La Belle et la bête (Jean Cocteau, 1946, France / Luxembourg)
* Le Voyage dans la lune (Georges Melies, 1902, France)
* Les Quatre cents coups (Francois Truffaut, 1959, France)
* Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Jacques Tati, 1953, France)
* My Life as a Dog (Lasse Halstrom, 1985, Sweden)
* My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988, Japan/USA)
* The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955, USA)
* Oliver Twist (David Lean, 1948, UK)
* The Outsiders (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983, USA)
* Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955, India)
* Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967, France/Italy)
* The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987, USA)
* Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, 2002, Australia)
* Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981, USA)
* The Railway Children (Lionel Jeffries, 1970, UK)
* The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse, 1956, France)
* Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrman, 1996, USA)
* The Secret Garden (Agnieszka Holland, 1993, UK/USA)
* Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson, 1998, Sweden/Denmark)
* Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952, USA)
* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney, 1937, USA)
* Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959, USA)
* The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973, Spain)
* Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, Japan)
* Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977, USA)
* To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962, USA)
* Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995, USA)
* Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg, 1971, UK)
* Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002, New Zealand)
* Where is the Friend's House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987, Iran)
* Whistle Down the Wind (Bryan Forbes, 1961, UK)
* The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi, 1995, Iran)
* The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939, USA)

*SURSA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4699393.stm*

Children get must-see movie list

*A list of 50 films that children should watch by the age of 14 includes
a diverse mix of movies from Toy Story to Iran's Where is the Friend's
House.*

Compiled by the British Film Institute, the list contains only eight
productions made in the UK.

The list, compiled with the help of the public, is intended to provoke
debate about what children should watch.

Other suggested films include Italy's Bicycle Thieves, Japanese cartoon
Spirited Away and Hollywood hit ET.

Cary Bazalgette, head of education at the British Film Institute, said:
"It's quite a controversial list that's likely to provoke continuing
debate, but that's the idea.

"We want people to discuss what children should see, rather than what
they shouldn't see."

The films selected span worldwide cinema, with choices from France,
Sweden, Australia and Spain, ranging from blockbusters to subtitled
art-house titles.

*Evolving list*

The 50 films were whittled down to a top 10, featuring Ken Loach's Kes,
Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz and Francois Truffaut's Les Quatre
Cents Coups.

The oldest film on the list is the French short film Le Voyage dans la
Lune, directed by Georges Melies in 1902.

The most modern is Disney's Finding Nemo, which was released in 2003.

Among the British inclusions are The Railway Children, Oliver Twist and
Billy Elliot.

"We're not imposing this selection. We intend the list to evolve, so
we'll be inviting continued comment and nominations on the BFI website,"
added Ms Bazalgette.

*Which films would you recommend children should watch by the age of 14?
Send your comments using the form below.*

Without a doubt, every child should have seen "The Sound of Music" by
the age of fourteen!Apart from being the best film ever made it also
teaches that there are such things as happiness, hope and optimism in
this increasingly negative and sad world.
*/Colette Brooks, Manchester, UK/*

Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ET and The Wizard of Oz are
classics. They have morals and comedy that young children need in this
day and age. I grew up with these classics and I still watch and enjoy
them immensely. I also reccomend they watch any Walt Disney film, even
if it's the old time classics like Cinderella or my personal favorite
-The Little Mermaid.
*/Claire Morris-Roberts, Caernarfon, North Wales/*

The Back to the Future trilogy are both intelligent and exciting, but
also great fun to watch. As a kid they were some of my favourite films
along with things like The Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory and the Indiana Jones movies. These are the kinds of
films children should be watching, things that are fun and engaging, but
still challenge more than slapstick type films.
*/Tom Laird, Hockley, UK/*

Kes has to be one of the dullest films ever made which no child should
have to sit through. All children should be encouraged to watch The
Goonies instead!
*/Victoria, London/*

The classic 1970s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (I haven't seen
the new one yet, mind.) They should also see some more mature stuff too
- perhaps Schindler's List? But none of this kitsch The Sound of Music
nonsense - they're children, not imbeciles.
*/Keith Collantine, London, UK/*

My 8-year old daughter would recommend The Master of Disguise, Men in
Black, Shrek, One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, The Court Jester,
Spaceballs, Madeline and the TV series Blott on the Landscape.
*/Megan, Cheshire UK/*

Nick Park's Oscar-winning The Wrong Trousers is an obvious candidate.
But not just because it is a superb animation. It is also a political
satire to rival Animal Farm.
*/Paul Richmond, Copenhagen, Denmark /*

Stand By Me is a really good film with some amazing acting by children
in it. I don't know what certificate the film holds but it is certainly
an eye opener for teenagers growing up.
*/Pete Noal, Norwich, UK/*

The Goonies. To show children you can have a life outdoors, instead of
staying indoors playing computers. Also Stand by Me.
*/Tom, Harrow, London/*

As a child of the 80's I am really shocked that no one has mentioned The
Neverending Story! One of my childhood favorites, I used to watch it
pretty much daily until the tape broke in the video player.. DOH!
*/Kerry, Glasgow/*

Pretentious rubbish, as all "Best Films" polls are. Critics always
select obscure arty movies to try and show everybody how cultured and
clever they are. They never recommend films that people might actually
want to watch. "Les Quatre Cents Coups"? It's a good film, but I can't
think of any child under the age of 14 who wouldn't be bored to tears by it.
*/Paul Hunter, Manchester, UK/*

The Princess Bride - what's not to like? For kids and grown-ups alike
the film is an absolute treat. Exciting, funny, full of thrills and
spills it's a movie kids will come back to over and over again. It was
the first DVD I bought for my nephews, and they love it (okay, so it
gives me a good excuse to watch it too!). Throughly recommended.
*/Brian Monaghan, Dublin, Ireland/*

Labyrinth - Jim Henson at his best!
*/Jane, London/*

It would be better that we spend more time with our kids than to expect
them to learn about things in life from movies...
*/David, Hertfordshire, UK/*

Stand By Me - I must have watched that movie a thousand times as a kid,
and I'm still enchanted by it every time I see it.
*/Lisa Stanton, Plymouth, UK/*

Errm, I think some of you are missing the point. It's not which is your
favourite film from childhood but which films will have a positive
social effect on children. Whilst Ghostbusters may be a classic 80s film
I'm not sure how high it is on moral fibre!
*/Louise, Manchester/*

Anything but the abysmal Sound of music.
*/Paul, Cardiff/*

I find this list completely out of touch with the reality of 14 year
olds! How can you expect them to sit in front of the Wizard of Oz, end
the like, at this age? I agree that most of the movie they watch are
inappropriate but this is taking things too far. I think audiovisual
education should be given more importance in the curriculum rather than
adults telling them that they can watch this film and not that one.
*/Gerald G, London/*

What a spectacularly pointless bit of research, with predictably
politically correct (and thus unrealistic results). To suggest that all
14 year-olds should, by such a young age, have seen this many foreign
language films is ridiculous. I very much doubt if your average 80
year-old, with 66 more years of available time, will have bothered to
ensure they have seen all of these films. Surely the main purpose of
children's movies should be to keep them entertained for a couple of
hours. With the exception of Toy Story and ET, I have trouble
identifying what other films on this list achieve that purpose. If the
purpose is to educate, then give them a book instead.
*/Tim, Abu Dhabi, UAE/*

The Breakfast Club - a perfect preparation for teen angst.
*/Simon Warren, London/*

I'm concerned about comments suggesting children should be made to watch
Schindler's List. Of course, children must be educated about what
happened in the holocaust, but I would question whether the best way to
do this is through a movie, no matter how well acted, written or
directed it might be. There exist many excellent documentaries (indeed,
some of which are produced by the BBC!) that present history in such a
way that allows people to assess these events with a clarity that can
never be afforded one by a movie that has only a limited focus,
necessitated by the medium of film. These documentaries present the
viewer with people who were actually there at the time and who
experienced these terrible events - somewhat more effective and true,
for want of a better word, than any movie script!
*/A Ramsay, St Albans/*

What about Labyrinth! That film is amazing, it has it all. The only
thing in that film that might not be suitable for children is David
Bowi'es mullet. God forbid that any child would want that hair style
when they are older.
*/Craig Newman, Cardiff/*

I never normally respond to these sort of things but this is a really
interesting question especially for someone who previously was a child
(and some may argue still is).Where to start. Firstly with the present
list. I am pleased to see such a good international spread of choices
but disapointed that I hhave not seen some many of them. If these films
are so good should we not be ensuring that they are distributed across
all countries. I dont understand why Toy Story is in there. Admittedly
it is an entertaining film but unlike something like Kes, doesnt teach
you anything and potentially shape the attitudes you will have as an
adult. That is what matters to me looking back. The films I saw that
taught me something or shaped me. The ones which had major impact were
Mask and The Elephant Man although whether you can watch these pre 14 I
am unsure. Where is the lion, the witch and the wardrobe and watership
down or the railway children? What about dramatisations of books such as
Swallows and Amazons? I only wish I could remember more the films I
watched as a child so that I could mention them but I guess if I cannot
remember they are not worth mentioning. One comfort is that this
question is being asked and not 'what films shouldn't you watch by 14?'
or 'what films have you seen that you shouldnt have by 14?'. The
recently released War of the Worlds is a prime example of a film that
should not be seen by children. However as long as we ask ourselves what
we let our children watch and not how much they watch then they can
still gather some value from this entertaining and educational medium.
*/Bryan Dobson, Pinner, Middlesex/*

Back to the Future - your parents really were teenagers once!
*/Laura, Oxford, UK/*

Yellow Submarine - the animation messes with your mind and the story is
a triumph of good over evil....great music too.
*/Alex, Shrewsbury, England/*

I agree with Martin Doyle, it simply has to be Star Wars! It's wonderful
when my son watches these films as it carries on the love that
generations before him have had for these films, and it takes me back to
my childhood. All the films have now captured the imaginations of people
ten, twenty and even thirty or more years apart and that is a rarity in
the film industry today.
*/Gemma Blain, UK/*

My 11 year-old daughter loves watching movies - she loves old musical
and just watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and is singing "Bless
you beautiful hide". The film is an example of a fun and harmless piece
of entertainment that is a pleasure to watch. May I also add that all
things should be in moderation and that I would never let her watch
films all day anymore than allow her to play computer games more than an
hour day (30 minutes only on a school day). Variety is the spice of life!
*/Miranda, Birmingham, UK/*

Every child should be forced to watch Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure &
Bogus Journey, otherwise how do we expect our children to learn the
appropriate way to present a history project or how to rock!?
*/Kevin G, Glasgow, UK/*

None of this matters, children should be out enjoying themselves, not
being force-fed overrated nonsense.
*/Grahame Kelly, Warwick, UK/*

Clearly if you are going to watch any film by the age of 14 it must be
Star Wars: A New Hope.
*/Stephen Mortimer, Reading, UK/*

Star Wars has got to be a must see film on any list. It was the most
memorable film I ever saw as a child and even now nearly 30 years on the
special effects hold up and the theme tune still stirs me. Darth Vader
is still the ultimate bad guy as well
*/Paul, Buckinghamshire, England/*

Children should be watching relatively surreal films like Bedknobs and
Broomsticks, or even just Mary Poppins. Something that stimulates the
imagination and brings life to the ordinary.
*/Helen P, Norwich, UK/*

Every kid should watch the original Star Wars movies as they define what
cinema excitement should be like for a youngster. Other classics I would
include would be Jaws (get them whilst the shark is still believable!),
Indiana Jones and The Goonies. Real entertainment. Kes would have sent
me to sleep as a kid. Toy Story is better for us grown-up kids as
youngsters don't appreciate half the stuff that Pixar put in.
*/Andrew Bloomfield, Warrington, UK/*

The Goonies! Spark some real imagination in kids, get them in the woods
having adventures and away from the local shops trying to get fags and
booze!
*/wavey, Southampton, UK/*

The Lion King is personally my favourite ever Disney film. The animation
is absolutely superb, the soundtrack is awesome and my 4 year old
daughter absolutely loves it.
*/Paul, Buckinghamshire, England/*

A great idea - but getting hold of some of the films is another matter.
I had to go to Rome to find a copy of the Bicycle Thieves. It was
definitely worth it; many of the scenes are unforgettable.
*/Eric, Southport, UK/*

Anything except Billy Elliot - one of THE most false, cloying, overrated
works of "art" this country has ever produced, and I'm speaking as a
lifelong film fan having viewed thousands of movies. Sorry to be
negative, but people really should wake up to how bad this film is...
*/Michael Wesley /*

Flight Of The Navigator and Labyrinth should be in the list. If you've
had the pleasure to see either of the films then I don't need to explain
why.
*/David James, chesterfield, England/*

If i had a daughter, I'd make her watch Tomb Raider - Angelina Jolie as
Lara Croft would be a great role model; an Indiana Jones for girls. I
remember seeing Evil Dead 2 when I was very young. The nightmares were
certainly character building.
*/Drew Jagger, Leicester, UK/*

The Goonies...forget all the others!
*/Paul Hart, Worcester,UK/*

Goonies - standing up for issues important to you and problem-solving.
Home Alone - so when your mum goes to Ibiza you know how to protect the
house! Big - to realise how important it is to have your childhood and
not grow up too quickly.
*/Georgie, Herts/*

This is a very Euro / Anglo-centric list. There is not one film from the
vast storehouse of Indian Cinema. Where is Satyajit Ray's Pather
Panchali, or his amazing fantasy film Goopy Gayne Baghe Bayne ?
*/R. Srinivasan, New Delhi, India/*

I'd recommend that everyone, old or young, should watch The Goonies. I'm
25 and I still love that film.
*/Cara, Wales/*

Fantasia! It's fun, childish, adult, scary and musical.
*/Susan Cunningham, Oxford, UK/*

I am still terrified by the wicked witch in The Wizard of Oz at 40 so
wouldn't recommend that one to a 14 year old! Too often today we forget
children are children. There isn't a price upon a golden and happy
childhood. Too much TV and too many movies can spoil childhood by
introduced themes and elements inappropriate to a child's thinking. The
film censors still need to sort out their ratings as even some
rated-12(PG) movies seem to be worthy of a higher rating.
*/Jane Postlethwaite, London/*

I think all children should definitely watch The Goonies! I've watched
it hundreds of times and never grow tired of it. Even at 22 years old I
still enjoy it and think that it would be a crime for any child not to
have seen it by the age of 14.
*/Wendy , Southampton, UK/*

It was recently suggested that Back to the Future is the ultimate family
movie. It surely deserves a place on this list!
*/Joel French, Forest Row, East Sussex/*

Surely what really matters is that children really learn to appreciate
the culture of films as a whole. As a child I grew up watching
everything from the Marx brothers to The Wizard Of Oz and Disney films.
I think that films are an important method of learning.
*/Helen, Hampshire UK/*

In this chaotic world of ours children should watch Pollyanna! A lesson
to learn on how to get along with all characters to be met in life.
*/Jane, London/*

I'm a bit disappointed to see Spirited Away on the list and not Castle
in the Sky (by the same director, Hayao Miyazaki). Castle in the Sky is
much more suitable for children (being as it is, an action adventure)
yet thought-provoking enough to make it, in my opinion, a much better
movie than Spirited Away.
*/Ash, Southampton, England/*

I'm glad to see some international films in the top ten. I thought ET
was a really boring film as a child and wouldn't inflict it on my kids.
I'd include some classic Disney like Lady and the Tramp and Dumbo. I'd
also have home grown classics like The Railway Children.
*/Amy, Dunstable, Bedfordshire/*

Seen as some of those films are rated 15, it seems a bit irresponsible
to recommend them to 14 year olds!
*/Richard, Norwich/*

If children are actually being told to stay inside and watch all these
films, we have no hope of tackling childhood obesity!
*/Andy T, Bath, UK/*

BMX Bandits - all under-14s should see this film. No child should be
deprived of seeing the bandits going down those chutes in the waterpark
with their bikes!
*/Terence, Watford, Herts/*

I would suggest a film version of Lord Of The Flies. I think it teaches
us about human nature and warns children how things can turn bad, how
the weak can be abused, and power corrupted. a bit heavy but an
important lesson...
*/Mark Wilks, Reading/*

The Goonies.
*/Christopher Pigden, /*

How can they leave The Lion King out of the top 10?! Clearly that should
be seen by all children and adults alike!
*/Ray, Birmingham/*

I think all children should see Mary Poppins and the Sound of Music by
the age of 14.
*/Sarah Corker, Sheffield, England/*

There aren't really enough laughs in the Top 10. And nothing really
dumb, which I think is important. Kids should see people just falling
about for no reason other than it's funny. So probably one of the more
destructive Laurel and hardy films. My 7 year old son loves old Will Hay
movies - the more pratfalls the better.
*/Robert Pugsley, Birstall, UK/*

Shrek - an absolute must. Also Dumbo, Legend, Cats and Dogs, ET.
*/John Crook, London/*

Shrek and It's A Wonderful Life.
*/Mark Searle, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex./*

All of the Star Wars Films back to back.
*/Jeff Rochester, Hornchurch, Essex/*

It's got to be Ghostbusters!
*/Rick, Sheffield, UK/*

The sound of Music, West Side Story and Ice Age.
*/Emily, Sussex, England/*

The Jungle Book.
*/Stuart Brennan, Hoylake, Wirral/*

The Sound of Music - The best ever film made.
*/Kai, Leeds/*

I believe that every child should be made to watch Schindler's List
during their formative years. Whilst it is a shocking film that might
perhaps be considered to be unsuitable for young children, every
teenager should be shown it as an example of what fear and hatred can
make people do to one another and why the international community
sometimes has a responsibility to protect people from their own state.
*/Richard W, Worcester, UK/*

Every child should be made to watch Labyrinth by George Lucas and Jim
Henson. It's the best kids' movie ever made.
*/Mark Cokell, Winchester, Hampshire/*

Most of the films I would recommend are great books which I think the
kids should read before watching the films. e.g. Tarka the Otter,
Watership Down, The Iron Giant, Danny Champion of the World, Charlie &
The Chocolate Factory, etc.
*/Ian Potter, London, UK/*

The Goonies. This movie should be part of the National Curriculum. A
classic kids' movie if ever there was one.
*/Dannish Effendi, Leeds/*

My son is almost 14 and I encourage him to watch films with serious
interest matter such as Schindler's List, The Pianist, Antwone Fisher
and Hotel Rwanda. I do, however, ensure that there is nothing too
explicit in terms of the language or sexual scenes.
*/Paul Whittaker, St Albans, UK/*

Star Wars! Not just for entertainment value, it has so much in it! Just
look at the impact it has had on creativity in all levels of society and
a whole generation of individuals. It's an inspirational film!!!
*/Martin Doyle, London/*

It's a Wonderful Life - it makes you think about the contribution you
make to other people's lives in a positive way, despite being a bit cheesy
*/Chris Loveless, Guildford England/*

Bugsy Malone should be in the list somewhere. Fantastic movie full of
action/singing/dancing, all the requirements for a good kids' movie.
*/Pete crosbie, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire/*

Some interesting British selections. Let me get this straight - the
British Film Institute are recommending that Billy Elliot is a film that
children should have seen by the time they are 14? It's a certificate
15!! How responsible of them. Keep them away from my children please.
*/Owen Lewis, Worthing, England/*

The Karate Kid. Truly inspiring.
*/Chris Forster, Bishop's Stortford/*

Watership Down, which still scares the heck out of me as an adult, but
is supposed to be for children.
*/James, London, UK/*

One of my favourites would be Flight of the Navigator. Escapism, fun and
thought-provoking for a youngster.
*/Simon, London, UK/*

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The 50 films you should see by the age of 14

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Here are the 50 films a panel of experts says children should see by the
time they are 14:

*THE 10 CHOSEN BY THE BFI*

1. Spirited Away (2001) - Animated Japanese film about gods and sorcerers

2. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Musical classic

3. Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) - French 12-year-old turns into a
hellraiser

4. The Night of the Hunter (1955) - Robert Mitchum as a serial killer in
America's Deep South

5. Where is My Friend's House? (1987) - One of Iranian director
Kiarostami's earlier works

6. Show Me Love (1998) - Coming-of-age tale of two Swedish girls

7. Toy Story (1995) - Buzz Lightyear and Woody brought to life by
computer animation

8. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Steven Spielberg's sci-fi tearjerker

9. Bicycle Thieves (1948) - Italian film focusing on life after World War II

10. Kes (1969) - Gritty working class British drama

*THE REMAINING 40*

A Day at the Races (1937) - Marx Brothers comedy

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Oscar-winning Sherwood Forest action

Au Revoir les Enfants (1987) - World War II drama set in French boarding
school

Back to the Future (1985) - Michael J Fox's time-travelling adventure

Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Disney's musical masterpiece

La Belle et la Bete (1946) - French telling of Beauty and the Beast

Billy Elliot (2000) - Working class boy discovers a love of ballet

Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Romantic tale of an uncommonly gentle man

Etre et Avoir (2002) - Portrait of a French school staffed by one teacher

Finding Nemo (2003) - Underwater animation

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Frank Capra's uplifting family feature

Jason and the Argonauts (1963) - Greek hero and his adventures

The Kid (1921) - Charlie Chaplin as a tramp

King Kong (1933) - Giant ape thriller

Kirikou et la Sorciere (1998) - Animated African folk tale

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) - French comedy about a holidaymaker who
wreaks havoc

My Life as a Dog (1985) - Swedish boy abused by his family

My Neighbour Totoro (1988) - Japanese animation

Oliver Twist (1948) - Charles Dickens' classic

The Outsiders (1983) - Francis Ford Coppola crime drama

Pather Panchali (1955) - Indian story of survival for a boy in Bengal

Playtime (1967) - Jacques Tati in a French farce

The Princess Bride (1987) - Rob Reiner directed fantastical fairytale

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) - Aboriginal epic

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - Harrison Ford goes on a perilous quest

The Railway Children (1970) - Charming drama set in Edwardian England

The Red Balloon (1956) - French parable

Romeo & Juliet (1996) - Baz Luhrmann's modern take on Shakespeare's tragedy

The Secret Garden (1993) - Maggie Smith stars in the classic journey of
discovery

Singin' in the Rain (1952) - Gene Kelly musical

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs(1937) - Classic animated fairytale

Some Like it Hot (1959) - Classic comedy with Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) - Tense drama set in post civil war Spain

Star Wars (1977) - George Lucas's sci-fi epic

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Movie of the Pulitzer winning novel

Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) - Vintage French space travel

Walkabout (1971) - Children stranded in the Australian outback

Whale Rider (2002) - New Zealand tale of love

Whistle Down the Wind (1961) - Hayley Mills finds Jesus on a farm

The White Balloon (1995) - Iranian tale

*SURSA:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/our-movies-your-children-should-see-at-school/2005/08/03/1122748696418.html*

Our movies your children should see at school

Australian critics and filmmakers offer their list of must-see movies
for children. Alexa Moses reports.

Correction

Thursday's article "Our movies your children should see at school"
should have said Chris Noonan was the director of Babe, not George Miller.

*- August 8*

Peter Castaldi and his 14-year-old daughter operate under a democratic
cinematic regime. On Saturdays or Sundays when they both have time, they
go to the movies. One visit, the pair see a commercial blockbuster
chosen by Isabelle. The next, Castaldi chooses.

"I see one of her bad films and she sees one of my good ones," is how
Castaldi puts it. "To begin with, I dragged her in kicking and
screaming. Now it's less and less."

As a film critic and director of the Australian Film Commission's Big
Screen touring film festival, Castaldi naturally believes cinema is
crucial to children's development. So it was with pleasure that he read
a list released by the British Film Institute late last month of 10
films the institute believes children should see by the age of 14. This
cinema canon was chosen by filmmakers, teachers and the heads of
children's film organisations across Europe.

Behind the list is a belief that adults have become overly restrictive
about what children see. Discussion about children's viewing, the
institute argues, should focus more on exploration than prohibition and
censorship. There's also the task of deciding what age is the right age
to see a particular film, and that's without factoring in the individual
child's maturity. Castaldi, for instance, has been taking his daughter
to see carefully vetted MA15+ films since she was 12.

While the institute's top 10 includes obvious picks such as /The Wizard
of Oz/, /ET/ and /Toy Story/, some of the offerings are more obscure:
the Japanese film /Spirited Away/, the 1948 Italian classic /Bicycle
Thieves/, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's romantic comedy /Show Me
Love/, and the Charles Laughton classic /The Night of the Hunter/.

The list has been criticised for being too prescriptive, too
fuddy-duddy, and for being heavy with films in which boys are the
heroes. From an Australian perspective, it barely reflects our culture.
Only one local movie made the top 50: Phillip Noyce's 2002 film
/Rabbit-Proof Fence/.

Such a list, then, could be expanded to include other adventurous films
that tell Australian stories - not necessarily made for children - that
children under 14 could appreciate.

Castaldi loves the list, but would include more silent films, such as
Buster Keaton's /The General/ and Charlie Chaplin's /Modern Times/. If
more Australian films were to be added, he would plug the 1976 film
/Storm Boy/, adapted from a novel by Colin Thiele. /Storm Boy/ is the
only film that has been part of the Big Screen festival for five years.

Other Australian or semi-Australian films he believes would be
appropriate for older children are the "quite scary" /Picnic at Hanging
Rock/, and the movie /Romeo + Juliet/, directed by the Australian Baz
Luhrmann, which made the British institute's top 50.

"Because it was financed overseas, /Romeo + Juliet/ doesn't qualify as
an Australian film, but it's so irreverent it could only have come from
a country like Australia," Castaldi says.

Denny Lawrence, a filmmaker and the chairman of the Australian Film
Institute, is also a fan of the British list.

"I think it's terribly important children see powerful adult stories as
well as films aimed specifically for children," he says.

Dr Patricia Edgar, chairwoman of the World Summit on Media for Children,
and founding director of the Australian Children's Television
Foundation, feels the list has an overly European sensibility.

"But they're all life-affirming legends," Edgar says. "I think it's
important for kids to see those sort of films."

She would add the comedy /School of Rock/, directed by Richard Linklater
and starring Jack Black, to the list. "The pity is, you wouldn't be able
to come up with a list of Australian films to actually match that," she
says. "We don't have the same European tradition for making films for kids."

The Australian film she thinks children would enjoy is the 1957 film
/The Shiralee/, starring Peter Finch, because of the strong child's
perspective within the movie.

Peter Tapp, from the Australian Teachers of Media, which produces study
guides for students and teachers about films and documentaries, reckons
Australian children should take a look at the 1983 classic /Careful, He
Might Hear You/, from the novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. He thinks older
children might appreciate John Duigan's coming-of-age flick /The Year My
Voice Broke/, starring Noah Taylor.

And the children? Admittedly, she's exposed to more art-house cinema
than most teenagers, but Isabelle Castaldi says she's learning to
appreciate her father's "different" films. She last took her father to
see /Madagascar/, and he took her to the Australian film /Peaches/,
which she loved. She adores Disney animation, and her favourite film of
all time is Monty Python's /Life of Brian/, which she first watched when
she was four. What she would love to see added to the list is the
Australian film /Looking for Alibrandi/.

"I would use a list like that if people said they were good movies,"
Isabelle says.

"If it appealed to me, I'd definitely rent it."

*THE BFI* *TOP 10*

·/Bicycle Thieves/ (Vittorio De Sica, 1948, Italy)

/·ET The Extra-Terrestrial/ (Steven Spielberg, 1982, US)

/·Kes/ (Ken Loach, 1969, UK)

/·The Night of the Hunter/ (Charles Laughton, 1955, US)

/·Les Quatre Cents Coups (400 Blows)/ ( Francois Truffaut, 1959, France)

· /Show Me Love/ (Lukas Moodys- son, 1998, Sweden/Denmark)

/·Spirited Away/ (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001, Japan)

/·Toy Story/ (John Lasseter, 1995, US)

/·Where is My Friend's House?/ (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987, Iran)

/·The Wizard of Oz/ (Victor Fleming, 1939, US)

*AN AUSTRALIAN* *TOP 10*

·/Babe/ (George Miller, 1995)

/·Careful, He Might Hear You/ (Carl Schultz, 1983)

/·Looking for Alibrandi/ (Kate Woods, 2000)

/·Picnic at Hanging Rock/ (Peter Weir, 1975)

/·Rabbit-Proof Fence/ (Phillip Noyce, 2002)

/·Storm Boy/ (Henri Safran, 1976)

/·The Shiralee/ (Leslie Norman, 1957)

/·Strictly Ballroom/ (Baz Luhrmann, 1992)

/·Walkabout/ (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)

/·The Year My Voice Broke/ (John Duigan, 1987)

*SURSA:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDhkM2FhMjUxMTVkMmU0YWYxZDVmMzBkZjk3NGYzMmE=
*

Juvenile List
What should the kids be watching?

By Thomas Hibbs

"What do they teach children in school these days?" wonders the genial
professor in C. S. Lewis's /The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=0064471195>. Well,
the august British Film Institute has some interesting suggestions for
which films children ought to be watching. Last summer, the BFI put out
a top-ten (and then 50) list
<http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/coursesevents/conferences/watchthis/top50.html>
that includes a Danish film (/Show Me Love/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00004YKR3>, released
in some countries as /F***ing Amal/) featuring experimental lesbian teen
sex and an American noir thriller (/The Night of the Hunter/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B000035P5R>) about
children fleeing a murderous, psychotic preacher. The list does include
popular American family films such as (/The Wizard of Oz/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B000ADS64E>, /E.T./
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00003CX9Q>, and /Toy
Story/ <http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B000B8QG0O>,
as well as the splendid Japanese animated film /Spirited Away/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00005JLEU>, but the
dominant themes in the list focus on the evils of the adult world, while
the dominant mood is despair.

Top-ten lists, part of the ephemera of our culture, appropriately
coincide with our most meaningless holiday, New Year's Day. Something a
bit more significant is going on with the BFI list, released earlier
this year, after consultation with some 80 experts in film and education
and backed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, which
monitors the national curriculum.

Given the adult themes and dour tone of these films, some have wondered
whether the BFI was not confusing films /about/ kids with films /for/
kids. Alas, not only is that not the case but the BFI actually advises
that these are films that children should see by the age of 14. Note
well—the BFI offers no minimum age for the viewing of any of the films,
just a maximum age by which they should have seen the films. Cary
Bazalgette, head of education at the BFI, admits the top ten was " quite
a controversial list that's likely to provoke continuing debate." "But
that's the idea," she added. "We want people to discuss what children
should see - rather than what they shouldn't see."

Well, the debate should likely begin with the question of whether even a
majority of these films would be appropriate for pre-teens and whether
some of them are the best educational choices even for early teens.
Indeed, one might wonder whether the list is not designed to render
young viewers disaffected, cynical, and suicidal.

A number of the films, for example, /The Bicycle Thief/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=6305081034> and /The
400 Blows/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=1572525320>, would
likely make any list of, say, top 100 international films, but it's not
clear these are the best pedagogical films for children. Vittorio De
Sica's /The Bicycle Thief/ is a gripping, minimalist production, a story
of Rome's post-World War II depression as seen through the eyes of a
child who is gradually stripped of every illusion about his father and
is finally forced to witness his father's public humiliation. An equally
bleak film, François Truffaut's first feature film, /The 400 Blows/,
stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as 13-year-old Antoine Doinel, a character upon
whom Truffaut based a series of films, a runaway who ends up as a petty
thief as he strives to come to terms with the brutal indifference of
life on the streets of Paris.

The vast majority of the films, including an Iranian entry /Where is the
Friend's House?/, offer artistically sophisticated versions of what has
in recent years become a Hollywood cliché: the arbitrariness of
conventional adult power. Except for Night of the Hunter, the American
films do not fit so neatly into this mold or at least they are not as
bleak. It's not clear, however, that any of the American films would
necessarily make a top-ten list of American films for children. For the
BFI list, /Dead Poets' Society/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=6305144168> might
have been a more apt choice.

Unfortunately, American teaching—where the use of film, often as nothing
more than a babysitting mechanism, is increasingly prominent—is hardly
immune to this sort of pseudo-sophistication. Although there are many
fine high-school English teachers, far too many flatter, rather than
challenge, the teen penchant for prurience and mindless, narcissistic
rebellion.

The use of film in today's schools makes debates about what ought to be
seen, by whom, at what age, significant. And it won't do for cultural
critics to lambaste the ideological parochialism of politically correct
film lists. We need to put forth positive accounts of which films
children ought to be seeing and why. And we need to avoid a saccharine
piety that only wants films with tidy, happy endings and no real
conflict. As a tentative first shot at films that depict children facing
real difficulties and overcoming them—or at least coming to see the
possibilities of nobility and courage in the face of life's
struggles—how about /The Miracle Worker/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B000056HEB>, /To Kill
a Mockingbird/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B0009X7664>, and
/Searching for Bobby Fischer/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=6305910340>? Or, more
recently and in a somewhat lighter tone, /The Lion King/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00003CXB4>, /Holes/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00009XUM5>, and /The
Incredibles/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00005JN4W>?
Moreover, how about age-appropriate classics beginning with /Sleeping
Beauty/ <http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00005JKHN>
and /The Sound of Music/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B000AP04OM> on up to
historical dramas such as /Lawrence of Arabia/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00003CXB2>?

One of the strangest omissions from the BFI list is war films. Among
others, how about /The Longest Day /
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00005PJ8S> (1962),
/A Bridge Too Far /
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=0792839730> (1977),
or /The Battle of Britain /
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B000ASDFEK> (1969)?
I'd certainly expect older, film-literate teens, beyond the age of 14,
to see /Apocalypse Now/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00005OWEG> or /Three
Kings/ <http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00003CX74>,
but we should balance these with films such as /Braveheart/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B00003CX95> and
/Saving Private Ryan/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B0001NBLVI>.

We might also want to debate, indeed resist, the eclipse of the written
word by the visual image in our schools and homes. Of course, the
written word and the moving image, accompanied by sound, are distinct
media, embodying divergent artistic excellences. One of our tasks no
doubt is to teach students to move between the two and not to judge one
by the standards of the other. But it is also significant that, when
avid readers compare their beloved books with their cinematic versions,
they find the latter wanting. They have the sense that film fails to
capture the imaginative richness of the written word, a richness
paradoxically founded on what the written word is not compelled to
supply for us.

There are signs that certain forces in the media may actually help
rather than obstruct the transition between the visual and literary
world. The ambitious goal of making literate films, which might in turn
create more readers, has been embraced by Walden Media, which has become
famous for its current production of /The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe/ but whose inaugural release was /Holes/, based on the
best-selling book from Louis Sachar.

A final oddity in the BFI list is the relative absence of British films,
especially when one considers how many solid British films have been
based on superb British dramas and novels, from Shakespeare to Austen
and beyond. Perhaps in keeping with the contemporary British tendency
toward self-loathing, only one English film, Ken Loach's /Kes/
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=B000A3YH7Y>, made the
cut. Americans are now accustomed to, and welcoming of, regular
cinematic version of Shakespeare and Austen and have become devotees of
film versions of the British authors, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis, and J. K.
Rowling, the latter of whom is responsible for the most significant
development in childhood media culture in the last 30 years—young
Americans devouring Russian-length novels. Rowling may not be in the
same league with Tolkien or even Lewis, but she comes much closer to
appealing to the better angels of the young soul than most of what
passes for dramatic excellence in the BFI list.

—/Thomas Hibbs, an NRO contributor, is author of /Shows About Nothing
<http://www.nationalreview.com/redirect/amazon.p?j=189062635X>.

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