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The films below will be shown wholly or in part during regular class time. You will be responsible for these clips on quizzes and exams. Please note that we may not see clips from every film listed. Also, clips may not be shown in the order given here, and we may see additional clips from films not listed here. Therefore, for your own records you should bring this list to class daily, check off which films we have covered in class, and note which terms and concepts each clip illustrates. This list will serve you well as a study guide when preparing for exams.
Introduction
_ Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
_ Mission Impossible (Brian DePalma, 1996)
Film Form and Production: Rear Window
_ Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
_ Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991)
_ Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
Narrative and Narration: Citizen Kane
_ The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903)
_ Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
_ Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
_ Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
_ Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair, 2001)
_ Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone (Chris Columbus, 2001)
_ The Lady in the Lake (Robert Montgomery, 1946)
_ The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)
_ Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1951)
_ Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dalí, 1928)
Mise-en-scène and Color: Do the Right Thing
_ A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902)
_ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Weine, 1919)
_ Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
_ Orlando (Sally Potter, 1993)
_ Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997)
_ Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
_ The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
_ Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938)
_ Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
_ Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
_ The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
_ The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987)
_ Visions of Light (Arnold Glassman & Todd McCarthy, 1992)
_ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, 2000)
Camerawork and Cinematography: O Brother, Where Art Thou? & The Piano
_ Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
_ Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
_ Microcosmos (Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou, 1996)
_ Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)
_ Sense & Sensibility (Ang Lee, 1995)
_ Rear Window (Alfred Hitchock, 1954)
_ Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
_ Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
_ Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)
_ Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
_ Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
_ A Christmas Story (Bob Clark, 1983)
_ The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
_ Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)
_ Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971)
_ Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
_ The Little Foxes (William Wyler, 1941)
_ The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
Special Effects
_ Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
_ The Empire Strikes Back (George Lucas, 1980)
_ Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson, 1997)
_ Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
Editing: Run Lola Run
_ Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
_ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, 2000)
_ Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
_ Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990)
_ Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
_ Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
_ The Battle of Elderbush Gulch (D.W. Griffith, 1912)
_ Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941)
_ Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
_ Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
_ Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987)
_ His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
_ Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1980)
_ Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
_ Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)
_ Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
_ Ukigusa (Floating Weeds) (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
_ Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1983)
_ Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1928)
_ Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
Sound and Sound Design: Singin’ in the Rain
_ Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1980)
_ 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
_ Living in Oblivion (Tom deLillo, 1994)
_ Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
_ Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
_ The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940)
_ Designing Woman (Vincente Minelli, 1957)
_ Airplane! (Jim Abrahams/David Zucker, 1980)
_ There’s Something About Mary (Fareley Bros., 1998)
_ Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen/Gene Kelly, 1952)
_ Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
_ Le Mépris (Contempt) (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
_ Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, 1990)
_ Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991)
_ Journeys from Berlin/1971 (Yvonne Rainer, 1979)
Film Analysis: Amélie
_ Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Amélie) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
Documentary: Night & Fog
_ The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (Lumière Bros., 1895)
_ Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922)
_ High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1969)
_ Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1995)
_ The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937)
_ Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl, 1936)
_ The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Ray Müller, 1995)
_ The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
_ This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner, 1984)
Avant-Garde/Experimental Filmmaking: Selected short films
_ Nude Descending a Staircase (Marcel Duchamp, 1912)
_ Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, 1921)
_ Ballet mécanique (Fernand Léger, 1924)
_ Study in Choreography for Camera (Maya Deren, 1945)
_ Dog Star Man (Stan Brakhage, 1964)
_ Film About a Woman Who… (Yvonne Rainer, 1974)
_ A Place Called Lovely (Sadie Benning, 1991)
Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, & Art Cinema: Breathless
_ Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
_ Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1959)
_ The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1960)
_ Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1961)
_ Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1961)
_ Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
_ Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene, 1966)
_ 8 ½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
_ L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
_ Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1960)
_ Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
_ Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
_ Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
_ Antonia's Line (Marleen Gorris, 1995)
Film Genres: Bringing Up Baby
_ The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
_ Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
_ Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
_ The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
_ Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)
_ Singin' in the Rain (Donen/Kelley, 1952)
Generic Transformation: Chinatown
_ Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)
_ King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)
_ Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974)
_ South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut (Matt Stone and Trey Parker, 1999)
_ American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973)
_ Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
_ The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)
_ Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
_ The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson, 2002)
Ideology & Cultural Criticism: The Matrix
_ Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
_ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953)
_ The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
_ The Celluloid Closet (Bob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, 1996)
_ Imitation of Life (John Stahl, 1934)
_ Color Adjustment (Marlon Riggs, 1991)
_ The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993)