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Audio Links for the Savvy Sound Designer
Movies You Should Hear:
Citizen Kane (Welles)
A Place in the Sun (Gavin/Merritt)
The Seven Samurai (Manawa)
Gojira (Manawa)
THX-1138 (Murch)
The Godfather (all of them)(Murch)
American Graffiti (Murch)
The Conversation (Murch)
Apocalypse Now (Murch)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Murch)
The English Patient (Murch)
Cold Mountain (Murch)
Close Encounters (of the Third kind) (Warner)
Raging Bull (Warner)
Any Pixar short film (Rydstrom)
Toy Story 1 & 2 (Rydstrom)
Anything called "Star Wars" (Burtt/Rydstrom)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Burtt)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick/Ryder)
Days of Heaven (Glen Glenn/Splet)
Eraserhead (Splet)
The Elephant Man (Splet)
The Black Stallion (Splet)
Never Cry Wolf (Splet)
Backdraft (Rydstrom)
Terminator II (Rydstrom)
Titanic (Rydstrom)
Contact (Benson)
Jackie Brown (Flick)
Punch-Drunk Love (Benson/Rydstrom)
Master and Commander (King)
Hero (Jing Tao)
House of Flying Daggers (Jing Tao)
War of the Worlds (2005) (King/Babcock)
Filmsound.org-probably the best all-around site about Sound Design
Transom.org-Where to go for the new state of audio for Radio
Another great source for articles on Radio Drama
Google's Film Sound Chat Group

Watch Those Levels!
The Wilhelm (On the Media)
Another Screaming Wilhelm Site
Film Sound Cliches to Avoid!
Walter Murch's "Dense Clarity/Clear Density"- The Best Essay on Mixing Sound
A Handy Introduction to Film Sound
Some History of Sound Design and Film Sound