Film20A: The Film Experience

CLIPS SCREENED IN CLASS
Wherever possible, exact times are provided (hour.min.sec.), along with catalog numbers for the Film and Music Center collection.


WEEK 1
September 28
(Introduction to The Film Experience, Mise-en-scene)

Les Carabiniers, dir. Jean-Luc Godard (1963) DVD 706 (00.34.54-38.45)
Lumiere Brothers' First Films (a selection of films directed by Auguste and Louis Lumiere, including "Train Entering the Station at La Ciotat, Sprinkler Sprinkled, Card Game, Baby's First Meal," "Photographers Disembark"). (1895) DVD 1530
Treasures from American Film Archives (we saw "Dog Factory," disk 2 and "Interior, New York Subway," disk 4. DVD 203.
Heavenly Creatures
, dir. Peter Jackson (1992). (1.25.32sec-1.29.32) DVD 1616

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, dir. Robert Wiene (1919). DVD 159.
Ch. 3
Heavenly Creatures, dir. Peter Jackson (1992) DVD 1616
(31min31sec-34.18)
The Leopard, dir. Luchino Visconti (1963) DVD 2233
Ch 27 (159min52 secs-166min15)
Me and You and Everyone We Know,
dir. Miranda July (2005) DVD3025

September 30 (Mise en scene)

Pierrot le Fou, dir. Jean-Luc Godard (1965) DVD19
Ch. 2 (05.30-08.13)
Written on the Wind, dir. Douglas Sirk (1956) DVD 483
Ch. 20
Singin' in the Rain, dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, (1951) DVD230
Ch. 11


WEEK THREE:
October 5: (Elements of Cinematography)

Grand Illusion, dir. Jean Renoir (1937) DVD 87
Ch. 10 (48.50-0.50.05)
Jaws, dir. Steven Spielberg (1975) DVD 259
Ch. 5 (13.36-16.00)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller, dir. Robert Altman (1971) DVD 1082
Ch 26 (98.53-102min)
Touch of Evil, dir. Orson Welles (1958) DVD264
Ch. 2 (0.48-4.30)

October 7 (The Significance of Cinematography)
Citizen Kane, dir. Orson Welles (1941) DVD 1616
The Searchers, dir. John Ford (1956) DVD 302
0.11.54-0.13.51
Thirteen, dir. Catherine Hardwicke (2003) DVD1910
12.35-15.33
Written on the Wind, dir. Douglas Sirk (1956) DVD 483

Zabriskie Point, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni (1970) VID 932
Last five minutes of side 2.

WEEK FOUR:
October 12: (Continuity Editing)

The Man Who Wasn't There,
dir. Joel Coen. (2001) DVD658
(95.27-99.40)
2001, dir. Stanley Kubrick (1968) DVD 1573
(19.15-20.45)
His Girl Friday, dir. Howard Hawks (1939) VID 1096 (avoid the DVD of this film, its quality is terrible)
Side 2
The Big Sleep, dir. Howard Hawks (1946) VID 862
(3.40-6.50)

October 14: (Continuity Editing)
The Maltese Falcon, dir. John Huston (1941) DVD224
Ch 2. (1.22-end of scene)
The Lonedale Operator, dir. D.W. Griffith (1911) VT 1267 ("Griffith Biograph Program")
Screened in 16mm in class
The Birds, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963) DVD 114

October 19: (Disjunctive Editing)
Breathless, dir. Jean-Luc Godard (1960) DVD428
(21.11-22.50).

Black Narcissus, dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (1947) DVD 1849
(3.30-6.18)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, dir. Frank Capra (1932) DVD 132
(40.39-42.44
The Limey, dir. Steven Soderbergh (1999) DVD 699
(3.24-)

October 21 (Montage)
Strike, dir. Sergei Eisenstein (1925)  DVD228 
ch. 4 (19.13-24.33)
Battleship Potemkin, dir. Sergei Eisenstein (1924) DVD158

October 26 (Sound)
Laura, dir. Otto Preminger (1944) DVD4425
First few minutes
Babel, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (2006)
The Sweet Smell of Success, dir. Otto Preminger(1944) DVD 118
(3.35-6.48)


October 28 (The Significance of Sound)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind, dir. Steven Spielberg (1977) DVD 351
(81.58-84.24 )
Band of Outsiders, dir. Jean-Luc Godard (1964) DVD 1668
(43.38-50.00).
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh (2004). DVD
2688.
(112min-)

Ghost Dog, dir. Jim Jarmusch (1999) DVD1269 (first few minutes).

November 2 (Narrative)
The General, dir. Buster Keaton (1926) DVD 1216
(28.06-30.30)
Punch Drunk Love, dir. P.T. Anderson (2001) DVD 1625
(74.45-79.16 )

(November 4, Midterm

November 9 (Experimental)
Ballet Mechanique, dir. Fernand Leger, 1924 VT 1598
Scorpio Rising, dir. Kenneth Anger (1949) DVD 5031
A Movie, dir. Bruce Conner (1958) VT2571
A Colour Box, dir Len Lye (1935) VT 9312
Free Radicals, dir. Len Lye (1958) VT 9312
Mothlight, dir Stan Brakhage (1963) DVD 1622
Meshes of the Afternoon, dir. Maya Deren (1943)
Me and Rubyfruit dir. Sadie Benning (1989) DVD 2754
Slippage, dir. Ali Cherri (Lebanon, 2007). Avail at: http://www.almostreal.org/2007/11/14/slippage/

November 16/18 (Documentary)
Monday screening: Berkeley in the Sixties, dir. Mark Kitchell (1990) VT 1395 (on reserve)

Film Essay on the Euphrates, dir. Omar Amiralay (1970) DVD 6382
The River, dir. Pare Lorentz (1939) DVD 1410
Harlan County, USA. dir Barbara Kopple (1976) VT 429
Wednesday:
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) DVD 2946 (first few minutes)
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990) VT 1395 (first few minutes)
Paris is Burning, dir. Jenni Livingston (1990) DVD 3096 (first few minutes.)



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