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 22
(Introduction to The Film Experience)

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

WEEK TWO:
September 27 (Mise en scene)

Pierrot le Fou, dir. Jean-Luc Godard (1965) DVD19
Ch. 2 (05.30-08.13)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, dir. Robert Wiene (1919). DVD 159.
Ch. 3
Heavenly Creatures, dir. Peter Jackson (1992) DVD 1616
(31min31sec-34.18)
Do the Right Thing, dir. Spike Lee (1989) DVD44
(32.25-)

September 29 (Mise en scene)
The Leopard, dir. Luchino Visconti (1963) DVD 2233
Ch 27 (159min52 secs-166min15)
Written on the Wind,
dir. Douglas Sirk (1956) DVD 483
Ch. 20
The Leopard, dir. Luchino Visconti (1963) DVD 2233
Ch 29 (175min21secs-177min15secs)
Proteus, dir. John Greyson and Jack Lewis (2003) DVD 2451
First chapter

WEEK THREE:
October 9: (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)

October 11 (Cinematography)
Touch of Evi
l, dir. Orson Welles (1958) DVD264
Ch. 2 (0.48-4.30)
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 16: (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 18: (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 23: (Disjunctive Editing)
The Godfather, dir. Francis Ford Coppola (1972) DVD 722
Ch. 21 (156.18-161.58)

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-)
Pepe le Moko, dir. Julien Duvivier (1937) DVD 1689

October 25 (Montage)
Strike, dir. Sergei Eisenstein (1925)  DVD228 
ch. 4 (19.13-24.33)
Battleship Potemkin, dir. Sergei Eisenstein (1924) DVD158

October 30 (Sound)
Laura, dir. Otto Preminger (1944) VT 2274
First few minutes
Babel, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (2006)
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh (2004). DVD
2688.
(112min-)
King Kong, dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack (1933) DVD 5052


November 1 (Sound)

"Duck Amuck," Looney Tunes collection (2003) DVD 2046
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, dir. Steven Spielberg (1977) DVD 351
(81.58-84.24 )
The Sweet Smell of Success, dir. Otto Preminger(1944) DVD 118
(3.35-6.48)
Band of Outsiders, dir. Jean-Luc Godard (1964) DVD 1668
(43.38-50.00).

November 6 (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 )
CItizen Kane DVD 377

November 8 (Narrative)
Mysterious Object at Noon, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1999. DVD 2449
North by Northwest, dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
The Last Man, dir. Ghassan Salhab (during break)

November 15 (Documentary)
Don't Look Back, dir. D.A. Pennebaker (1967) DVD748
Tongues Untied, dir. Marlon Riggs (1989) DVD4801
The River, dir. Pare Lorentz (1939) DVD 1410
Fog of War, dir. Errol Morris (2004) DVD2275

November 20 (Experimental Screening)
Ballet Mechanique, dir. Fernand Leger, 1924 VT 1598
Scorpio Rising, dir. Kenneth Anger VT 742
Sans Soleil (clip) dir. Chris Marker 1982 DVD 5252
Cover Girl: A Gift from God dir. Nguyen Tan Hoang, 2000.
A Movie, dir. Bruce Conner (1958) VT2571
Meshes of the Afternoon dir. Maya Deren (1946) DVD2296
Len Lye:
Kaleidoscope (1935) VT 9312
Birth of the Robot (1936) VT 9312
Rainbow Dance (1936) VT 9312
Stan Brakhage:
Mothlight (1963) DVD1622
Garden of Earthly Delights (1981) DVD 1622
Sadie Benning:
Me and Rubyfruit (1989) DVD 2754
Nest of Tens, dir. Miranda July (clip) VT9856

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