Date:

Movies We’ll See

Presentation Topics:

Reading Quizzes

Writing

Your Own Movies

1. January 14

Lumiere Brothers

The Birth of a Nation

Metropolis

Battleship Potemkin

1. Lumiere Brothers

  1. Fritz Lang
  2. D. W. Griffith
  3. Sergei Eisenstein

 

 

 

2. January 21

The General

The Gold Rush

A Night at the Opera
  1. Buster Keaton
  2. Charlie Chaplin
  3. Marx Brothers
  4. Silent movies

Chapter 1

Short: Week 1 movies

 

3. January 28

Citizen Kane
  1. Early movie theaters
  2. Hollywood and the studio system
  3. Orson Welles
  4. William Randolph Hearst

Chapter 2

Short: Week 2 movies

 

4. February 4

Casablanca

 

Coffee and Cigarettes
  1. Humphrey Bogart
  2. Ingrid Bergman
  3. Oscars (Academy Award)

Chapter 3

Short: Week 3 movies

 

5. February 11

Top Hat

An American in Paris

Moulin Rouge
  1. Gene Kelly
  2. Fred Astaire
  3. Baz Luhrmann

Chapter 4

Longer: Citizen Kane or Casablanca

 

6. February 18:

No Class

 

 

 

 

7. February 25

Psycho

Touch of Evil

Student Movies
  1. Film Noir
  2. Alfred Hitchcock

 

Chapters 1-4

Short: Week 5 movies

Scary Movies

8. March  4

The Grand Illusion

Jules et Jim

Amelie
  1. Jean Renoir
  2. Francois Truffaut
  3. French movie industry

Chapter 5

Longer: Creative essay on your movie.

 

9. March 11

The Bicycle Thief

8 ˝

Cinema Paradiso
  1. Federico Fellini
  2. Italian movie industry
  3. Translating movies into subtitles

Chapter 6

Short: Week 8 movies

 

10. March 18

Apu

 

Dilwale Dulhania Le       Jayenge

 

Monsoon Wedding
  1. Satyajit Ray
  2. Mira Nair
  3. Bollywood and the Indian movie industry

 

Chapter 7

Short: Week 9 movies

 

11. March 25

Seven Samurai

 

Raise the Red Lantern

Hero
  1. Yimou Zhang
  2. Chinese movie industry
  3. Akira Kurosawa

Chapter 8

Short: Week 10 movies

 

12. April 1

The Color of Paradise

 

Osama (or Kandahar)
  1. Majid Majidi
  2. Iranian movie industry

Chapter 9

Short: Week 11 movies

 

13. April 8

The Triumph of the Will

Hearts and Minds

The Corporation
  1. Leni Riefenstahl

 

Chapter 10

Short: Week 12 movies

 

14. April 15

Pulp Fiction
  1. Sundance Festival
  2. Cannes Festival
  3. Quentin Tarantino

 

Chapters 5-10

Short: Week 13 movies

 

15. April 22

The Big Lebowski
  1. Coen Brothers

 

 

Short: Week 14 movies

 

16. April 29

Student movies

 

 

4 Final Exam essays

Genre Movies