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[Jan. 23rd, 2009|11:37 am] |
So, despite the class being (for the most part) full of dumbasses and bimbos, Film is gonna be FUN. Made a new friend, too. Yay me. Maybe I'm finally getting over my nerves/agoraphobia. Hopefully.
These are all the full movies we're watching, one per week, and the category they apply to. After that is all the clips we get to watch that week to emphasize the topic of the week.
Intro- Screening: Double Indemnity- Billy Wilder, 1944 Clips: None
Mise-en-scene 1: Setting, Props, Lighting, Costume, Makeup: Screening: All That Heaven Allows- Douglas Sirk, 1955 Clips: Night Of The Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964), Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1964), Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989), Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998), Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, 2006)
Mise-en-scene 2: Acting and Performance: Screening: All About My Mother- Pedro Almodovar, 1999 Clips: Modern Times (Charles Chaplin, 1936), Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950), Female Troubles (John Waters, 1974), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1978), Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979), Conan The Barbarian (John Milius, 1982), Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong, 1995)
Cinematography 1: The Shot: Screening: The Third Man- Carol Reed, 1949 Clips: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (Frank Tashlin, 1957), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968), The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970), Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978), Paris Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984), Se7en (David Fincher, 1995), Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997) Cinematography 2: Camera Movement and Framing: Screening: The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939) Clips: Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954), Touch Of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958), Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978), Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986), Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990), Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
Editing 1: Screening: Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Clips: His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940), Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick, 1958), Carrie (Brian DePalma, 1976), Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990), No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007)
Editing 2: Screening: Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) Clips: L'Age D'Or (Luis Bunuel, 1930), Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut, 1962), The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962), Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
Sound: Screening: The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Clips: M (Fritz Lang, 1931), Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956), Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1956), Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974), Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987), There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
Narrative 1: Screening: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) Clips: The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946), Mr. Hulot's Holiday ( Jacques Tati, 1953), Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974), Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999), A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, 2005)
Narrative 2: Screening: Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973) Clips: Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, 1969), Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997), Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998), Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999), Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000)
Documentary: Screening: Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, 2008) Clips: Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922), High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968), Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, 1970), Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1986), Biggie and Tupac (Nick Broomfield, 2002)
The Western: Screening: McCabe and Ms. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971) Clips: Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939), High Noon (Fred Zinneman, 1952), The Searchers (John Ford, 1956), The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969), Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974), Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Authorship and Hitchcock: Screening: Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) Clips: North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959), Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960), The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981), American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) So yeah, there's 15 weeks of class. I'm really excited. Both to analyze the films I love on that list, and see the ones I haven't.
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