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Movies You Saw in Film Class?

posted 4 years ago by BillHicksFan (10087)
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College, high school, whatever. But an actual film class.

I'm interested in comparing (what else is new?) between all the different film schools. If you can give an approximation of the location without giving up your identity, that would be cool.

I remember the teacher very well. Old guy, white hair, still remember his face, but oddly, not his name, despite having a great memory. On Tuesday, we would watch the movie, and then as we left, he'd give us reading assignments, which I always avoided, but we'd have a discussion on Thursday. I kinda wish I could do it all over again since I wasn't very experienced at 18. There are a few of those movies I wanted to re-watch, but they were pretty straight-forward.

-The Searchers
-Double Indemnity
-Taxi Driver
-Blade Runner (I actually fell asleep, and woke up at near the end)
-The Crying Game

We might have also seen "The Maltese Falcon", but I'm not sure. I don't remember any foreign movies, which is too bad. We also had a non-required "new" movie, "The Matrix", which I had already seen, so I didn't go. It was an ok movie. CGI does nothing for me; I was more interested in the psychological stuff.

I know there were more, but I just can't think of them right now. Maybe someone here will name them.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

to kill a mockingbird

[–] BillHicksFan (10087) 4 years ago

I saw that in 10th grade

[–] overseas7 (3523) 4 years ago

I remember to have seen Mary Poppins

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

lord of the flies

[–] BillHicksFan (10087) 4 years ago

Important movie for young people

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

moby dick 1956

[–] Padeen (6459) 4 years ago

Glory
Air Force One
Logan's Run
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
A Cry in the Wild

[–] degree7 (821) 4 years ago

I had two film courses, one in Pittsburgh and the other in Denver.

The first was pretty straightforward but enjoyable:
- Streetcar Named Desire, Bonnie & Clyde, Die Hard, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, War of the Worlds (2005), Juno, United 93.

It was overall a decent selection, but fairly limited, where the teacher avoided showing too much of anything that required a longer attention span. No 3 hour films or anything in a foreign language, or experimental. The most he showed were short clips from old pre-code Hollywood or an Eisenstein movie. The best part was getting to pick some of our own choices from a list he gave.

The second class had a much weaker list, I thought. She started the course off with “Citizen Kane”, which most people hate on a first watch, and blatantly told the class she was only screening it because we had to get through the boring black and white stuff first - which was kind of alarming to hear from a film professor. She then followed it up with the usual movies they show in race relations classes, like “Do the Right Thing,” then to “Pan’s Labyrinth,” then “Wadjda,” then some movie about a black teenager growing up in the ghetto who cross dresses. It was at this point I realized I was in a racial/gender studies class under the guise of a film class, and the professor has just decided it’s what the core would be about despite it being advertised as a film studies class. It was fairly interesting, although the whole film selection was so horribly pedestrian I tried to skip as many viewings as possible, although she graded attendance like a hawk which made it torture. It was also at 8:00am, and I faced a 30-40 minute drive each day in rush hour. Eventually she finished us off with “A Quiet Place,” which was a terrible movie. And we didn’t even get to pick our own movies to present. Worst film class ever.