too cool for school

By: micah van hove

School movies (mostly high-school) as inspiration for a screenplay I’m writing,
in vague order of relevancy to my story.

• 01
  Margaret
  Kenneth Lonergan
• 02
  Rushmore
  Wes Anderson
• 03
  Dead Poets Society
  Peter Weir
• 04
  American Graffiti
  George Lucas
• 05
  Au revoir les enfants
  Louis Malle
• 06
  The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
  Peter Care
• 07
  Lucas
  David Seltzer
• 08
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 09
  The Year My Voice Broke
  John Duigan
• 10
  Afterschool
  Antonio Campos
• 11
  The Virgin Suicides
  Sofia Coppola
• 12
  Wonder Boys
  Curtis Hanson
• 13
  Splendor in the Grass
  Elia Kazan
• 14
  American Beauty
  Sam Mendes
• 15
  Heathers
  Michael Lehmann
• 16
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 17
  High School
  Frederick Wiseman
• 18
  Over the Edge
  Jonathan Kaplan
• 19
  Dazed and Confused
  Richard Linklater
• 20
  Fast Times at Ridgemont High
  Amy Heckerling
• 21
  The Last Picture Show
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 22
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly
• 23
  The Breakfast Club
  John Hughes
• 24
  Fame
  Alan Parker
• 25
  Kicking and Screaming
  Noah Baumbach
• 26
  Some Kind of Wonderful
  Howard Deutch
• 27
  Picnic at Hanging Rock
  Peter Weir
• 28
  Sixteen Candles
  John Hughes
• 29
  Election
  Alexander Payne
• 30
  Detachment
  Tony Kaye
• 31
  Hoosiers
  David Anspaugh
• 32
  Flirting
  John Duigan
• 33
  Child's Play
  Sidney Lumet
• 34
  A Modern Coed
  Éric Rohmer
• 35
  Mr. Topaze
  Peter Sellers
• 36
  Véronique and Her Dunce
  Éric Rohmer
• 37
  This Land Is Mine
  Jean Renoir
• 38
  These Three
  William Wyler
• 39
  Kes
  Ken Loach
• 40
  Welcome to the Dollhouse
  Todd Solondz
• 41
  The Forest for the Trees
  Maren Ade