Films that Spurred My Interest in Filmmaking

By: Uli Cain, Cinefid​el¹³

I started really thinking about making films in high school, though I’ve wanted to write since fourth grade. When I signed up for a Video Production class in 11th I saw how I could put the two together and have stuck with it ever since (with too many tangents on the path, but…). So here are the films that inspired me to move forward with film and to come back to it and to come back to it again. Should I be afraid that Vincent Gallo was also influenced by The Rain People?

In order of personal importance.

• 01
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 02
  Carnal Knowledge
  Mike Nichols
• 03
  Medium Cool
  Haskell Wexler
• 04
  The Rain People
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 05
  Talk Radio
  Oliver Stone
• 06
  Miller's Crossing
  Joel Coen
• 07
  Surviving Desire
  Hal Hartley
• 08
  Natural Born Killers
  Oliver Stone
• 09
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 10
  Freaks
  Tod Browning
• 11
  The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  Terry Gilliam
• 12
  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  Robert Wiene
• 13
  Highlander
  Russell Mulcahy
• 14
  Alice in Wonderland
  Clyde Geronimi
• 15
  Enemy Mine
  Wolfgang Petersen