Sunday, July 15, 2012

Homework Screening Options


Screening Options
Each week there will be different reaction questions posted to the blog to consider when watching the film. Please take some time and research the different films to find one that best suits your interests.
Always opt for a film that you haven’t seen over one that you have. You can always pitch me a film you’d like to watch if you think it’s relevant to that week’s discussion.

Week Two – WWI
Theme One – The Hero
Lawrence of Arabia – David Lean
Sergeant York – Howard Hawks
Gallipoli -  Peter Weir
The Blue Max – John Guillermin

Theme Two - Melodrama
Oh what a Lovely War – Richard Attenborough
Doctor Zhivago – David Lean
The African Queen – John Huston
A Very Long Engagement – Jean-Pierre Jeunet


Week Three- WWII

Theme One – The Unit
Paratroop Command – William Witney
Kanal – Andrzej Wajda
The Big Red One – Samuel Fuller
The Thin Red Line – Terrence Malick


Theme Two – foreign experiences of WWII
Grave of Fireflies –  Isao Takahata
Rome Open City – Roberto Rossellini
Das Boot – Wolfgang Petersen
Come and See – Elem Klimov





Week Four- Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick
Platoon – Oliver Stone
The Deer Hunter – Michael Cimino
Hamburger Hill – John Irvin
The Boys in Company C – Sidney Furie
Rescue Dawn – Werner Herzog
Good Morning Vietnam – Barry Levinson
Casualties of War – Brian DePalma
The Hanoi Hilton – Lionel Chetwynd
M*A*S*H – Robert Altman



        ***Weeks 5 & 6 – Your group will be assigned a film at random for your midterm review “Anti-War Films” during class in Week 4



Week 7

Any contemporary war film (made in the last 20 years)

Some Suggestions:

The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow
Three Kings – David O Russell
Empire of the Sun – Steven Spielberg
Inglorious Bastards – Quentin Tarantino
Ride with the Devil  - Ang Lee
The Sun – Aleksandr Sokurov
Black Book – Paul Verhoeven

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