Component 1: Varieties of film and filmmaking
Six feature-length films will be studied for this component.
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
- All About Eve (Mankiewicz, 1950), U
- Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958), PG
- Imitation of Life (Sirk, 1959), 12
- Some Like It Hot (Wilder, 1959), 12
Group 2: New Hollywood (1961-1990)
- Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967), 15
- Night of the Living Dead (Romero, 1968), 15
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman, 1975), 15
- Alien (Scott, 1979), 15
- Do the Right Thing (Lee, 1989), 15
Section B: American film since 2012 (two-film study)
Two films will be studied, one chosen from group 1 and one chosen from group 2:
Group 1: Mainstream film
- Carol (Haynes, 2015), 15
- La La Land (Chazelle, 2016), 12A
- Joker (Phillips, 2019), 15
- Little Women (Gerwig, 2019), U
- Nomadland (Zhao, 2020), 12
Group 2: Contemporary independent film (produced after 2010)
- Beasts of the Southern Wild (Zeitlin, 2012), 12A
- Captain Fantastic (Ross, 2015), 15
- Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016), 15
- Get Out (Peele, 2017), 15
- Promising Young Woman (Fennell, 2020), 15
Section C: British film since 1995 (two-film study)
Two of the following British films will be studied:
- Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996), 18
- Shaun of the Dead (Wright, 2004), 15
- This is England (Meadows, 2006), 18
- Fish Tank (Arnold, 2009), 15
- We Need to Talk about Kevin (Ramsay, 2011), 15
- Under the Skin (Glazer, 2013), 15
- Saint Maud (Glass, 2019), 15
- Mangrove (McQueen, 2020)
- Mogul Mowgli (Tariq, 2020), 15
- Belfast (Branagh, 2021), 12
Component 2: Global filmmaking perspectives
Five feature-length films (or their equivalent) will be studied for this component.
Section A: Global film (two-film study)
Two films will be studied, one chosen from group 1 and one from group 2:
Group 1: European film
- Life is Beautiful (Benigni, Italy, 1997), PG
- Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, Spain, 2006), 15
- Mustang (Ergűven, France/Turkey, 2015), 15
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma, France, 2019), 15
- Another Round (Vinterberg, Denmark, 2020), 12
- The Worst Person in the World (Trier, Norway, 2021), 15
Group 2: Outside Europe
- City of God (Meirelles, Brazil, 2002),
- House of Flying Daggers (Zhang, China, 2004), 15
- Taxi Tehran (Panahi, Iran, 2015), 12
- A Fantastic Woman (Lelio, Chile, 2017), 15
- Roma (Cuaron, Mexico, 2018), 15
- Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea, 2019), 15
Section B: Documentary film
One of the following films will be studied:
- Sisters in Law (Ayisi and Longinotto, Cameroon/UK, 2005), 12A
- Stories We Tell (Polley, Canada, 2012), 12A
- Amy (Kapadia, UK, 2015), 15
- For Sama (Al-Kateab, UK, 2019), 18
- Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, UK, 2010), 15
Section C: Film movements - Silent cinema
One of the following film options will be studied:
- One Week (1920), U and The Scarecrow (1920),
- The 'High Sign' (1921), U
- Cops (1922), U, (Keaton, US)
- Strike (Eisenstein, USSR, 1924), 15
- Sunrise (Murnau, US, 1927), U
- Spies (Lang, Germany, 1928), PG
- Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, USSR, 1928),
- A Propos de Nice (Vigo, France, 1930),
U.
Section D: Film movements - Experimental film (1960-2001)
One of the following film options will be studied:
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (Varda, France, 1962), PG
- Daisies (Chytilova, Czechoslovakia, 1965), 15
- Saute ma ville (Akerman, Belgium, 1968), 15
- Fallen Angels (Wong, Hong Kong, 1995), 15
- Memento (Nolan, US, 2000), 15
- Mulholland Drive (Lynch, US, 2001), 15
Component 3: Production
Short film study
Learners are required to make a study of at least three short films in preparation for their production.
The total running time of the films selected must be at least 80 minutes.
- Meshes in the Afternoon (Deren, US, 1946) 14’
- La Jetée (Marker, France, 1962) 28’
- La Ricotta (Pasolini, Italy, 1963) 34’
- The Grandmother (Lynch, US, 1970) 34’
- A Girl’s Own Story (Campion, Australia, 1987) 26’
- Elephant (Clarke, UK, 1989) 39’
- The Wrong Trousers (Park, UK, 1993) 30'
- When the Day Breaks (Forbis/Tilby, Canada, 1999) 09'
- About a Girl (Percival, UK, 2001) 09'
- Wasp (Arnold, UK, 2003) 24'
- Two Cars, One Night (Waititi, NZ, 2004) 11’
- High Maintenance (Van, Germany, 2006) 09'
- Connect (Abrahams, UK, 2010) 05'
- Night Fishing (Park, South Korea, 2011) 33’
- Pitch Black Heist (Maclean, UK, 2012) 13’
- Curfew (Christensen, US, 2012) 19'
- Swimmer (Ramsay, UK, 2012) 18’
- Wild Tales Compilation (Szifron, Argentina 2014)*
- Pasternak 8’
- The Rats/Las Ratas 20’
- Road to Hell/ El más fuerte 20’
- Bombita 20’
- The Deal/La Propuesta 20’
- Till Death Do Us Part/ Hasta que la muerte nos separe 22’
- The Gunfighter (Kissack, US, 2014) 09'
- Stutterer (Cleary, UK, 2015) 12'
- The Silent Child (Overton, UK, 2017) 21’
- Hair Love (Cherry, US, 2019) 06’
- The Human Voice (Almodovar, Spain, 2020) 30
