My cousin took an introductory course on film at his university last year and the way we worked it out: I'd write a paper for him and then he'd dumb it down so it could pass as his own.
The coolest part was, after sending him two papers for him to read and subsequently use as templates, he was able to turn in a surprisingly sagacious examination of
The Searchers for his final paper.
I'll have my hands full enough this semester with my own shit, so I won't be writing your papers for you, but I'll proofread and give comments/suggestions/reading recommendations for anything you've got.
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The Cove (which we watched last week, as well as a few silent films like The Great Train Robbery and A Trip To the Moon)
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The Cove? IMDb is showing me a documentary from 2009? Provided I have the right film, what was the reasoning behind showing it to you?
The others make more sense since day one is always the formative experiments in filmmaking. I still think
The Great Train Robbery and
A Trip to the Moon are pretty damn entertaining for being more than a century old.
Surprised you didn't watch any D.W. Griffith stuff. That's a massive oversight, IMO.
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Steamboat Willie
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Cartoons. Yuck.
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Singing In the Rain
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There are better musicals out there, IMO, but in terms of the canonical classics, this is THE musical. Definitely essential viewing.
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The Battleship Potemkin
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This will be really cool. I had this screened for me in my History of Cinema class and it's so much cooler on the big screen. And the technical mastery for a film that old is staggering.
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Stagecoach
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The two John's. Yuck.
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The Thing From Another World
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If no one in your class says, "Kill it with fire," then your class sucks
Like
Singin in the Rain, I think there are better examples for '50s science fiction, namely
The Day the Earth Stood Still and
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (this is what I would show), but
The Thing From Another World is still good.
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Strangers on a Train
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Becoming a pattern: There are better Hitchcock's, but this is still a damn good film.
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Citizen Kane  |
Wouldn't be an intro to film course without it.
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The Graduate
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Nice. I've watched this twice in two different classes at Columbia. Such an awesome film.
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Jaws
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I even took a class called "Films of the 1970s" and I didn't get to watch this on the big screen. That'll be a fun day.
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The Big Chill
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Haven't seen it.
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Un Chien Andalou
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I would think this would be screened on the first or second week to preserve a chronological progression
Cool mind-fuck of an experience, nevertheless.
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The Big Lebowski
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Not a fan, but expect this to be the class favorite.
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Date To Skate
Frigid Hare
Vincent
Toy Story
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Way too many fucking cartoons. Waste of class time, if you ask me.
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Even without having seen this film, I'm confident in saying that your professor could've chosen a better current film with which to close the semester.
Still, not a bad looking list of films. Any word on future assignments/essays? And is your textbook something other than
Film Art?