Fun Fridays – Director’s Favourite Films – Beeban Kidron

Hello Film Doctor friends.

As we leave yet another working week behind, we quickly make time for a new Fun Friday post.

With the UK release of internet documentary “InRealLife” the Film Doctor team have looked to its director Beeban Kidron for her film influences. 

Here is Beeban’s list:

(First published in FilmClub).

– Miracle in Milan, Vittorio de Sica (1951)

– Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle (2008)
– Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Frank Capra (1939)
– Hotel Rwanda, Terry George (2004)
– Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg (1993)
– To Sir, with Love, James Clavell (1967)
– Persepolis, Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi (2007)
– Jaws, Steven Spielberg (1975)
– The Diary of Anne Frank, George Stevens (1959)
– The Great Escape, John Sturges (1963)
– Shoah, Claude Lanzmann (1985)
– Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl (1935)
– The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming (1939)
– Citizen Kane, Orson Welles (1941)
– Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton (1991)

–Mildred Pierce, Michael Curtiz (1945)
– Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock (1954)