film studies is killing me

[Dave]

sheesh, 8 more years till American History X?

I think I'd top myself before I got that far.

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

so what films are you seeing as part of this course?

[sliver]

The course is FILM 2000: Film Theory, Historiography, and Criticism. In order, we have watched/will watch:

The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, Italy, 1948)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, USA, 1946)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1949)
Ballet Méchanmique (Fernand Léger, France, 1924)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, France, 1929)
Battleship Potemkin (Seergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union, 1925)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1958)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, USA, 1986)
Caught (Max Ophuls, USA, 1949)
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1967)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, USA, 1984)
Alien (Ridley Scott, USA, 1979)
The Idiots (Lars von Trier, Denmark, 1998)
From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, USA, 1996)
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, USA, 1903)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, France, 1902)
Pixote (Hector Babenco, Brazil, 1981)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beyza'i, Iran, 1985)
Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union, 1929)
Now Voyager (Irving Rapper, USA, 1942)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, USA, 1954)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, USA, 1992)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, USA, 1969)
Jezabel (William Wyler, USA, 1938)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, USA, 1990)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, USA, 1923)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960)

[phantasmagoria]

No Kubrick?

pfft.

[Tsakali_]

I could have sworn I posted under this thread

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

The course is FILM 2000: Film Theory, Historiography, and Criticism. In order, we have watched/will watch:

The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, Italy, 1948)
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, USA, 1946)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1949)
Ballet Méchanmique (Fernand Léger, France, 1924)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel, France, 1929)
Battleship Potemkin (Seergei Eisenstein, Soviet Union, 1925)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1958)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, USA, 1986)
Caught (Max Ophuls, USA, 1949)
Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1967)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, USA, 1984)
Alien (Ridley Scott, USA, 1979)
The Idiots (Lars von Trier, Denmark, 1998)
From Dusk Till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, USA, 1996)
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, USA, 1903)
A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, France, 1902)
Pixote (Hector Babenco, Brazil, 1981)
Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bahram Beyza'i, Iran, 1985)
Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union, 1929)
Now Voyager (Irving Rapper, USA, 1942)
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, USA, 1954)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, USA, 1992)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, USA, 1969)
Jezabel (William Wyler, USA, 1938)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, USA, 1990)
The Ten Commandments (Cecil B. DeMille, USA, 1923)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1960)

an interesting selection...

What did you think of The Bicycle Thieves? That's one of my alltime favs.

What are some of your favorite movies?

[JulesWinnfield]

It's pretty clear her final film school project ended with a fïn before she flunked out.

[sliver]

an interesting selection...

What did you think of The Bicycle Thieves? That's one of my alltime favs.

What are some of your favorite movies?

The Bicycle Thieves was very interesting, but frankly if I were not in film studies and didn't know anything about Italian neo-realism / the production I probably would have found it pretty forgettable (which is not to say bad).

Do you mean my favourite films of those we've watched (we're up to Man With a Movie Camera) or in general?

[Underpants?]

be sure to express your views on the films.
Oh, and be less trifling, kitch.