Those are the two that leap to my mind, too. One of my friends at Cal Arts taught a similar class recently. I'll see if he still has his syllabus up.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
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Hayden - Oct 27, 2006 8:51:21 pm PDT #5198 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Hayden - Oct 27, 2006 8:58:37 pm PDT #5199 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Sorry, I misremembered. His was on the Other in cinema, although he did include Pather Panchali, which might be a good choice. When he was asking movie geeks about the class, someone suggested Battle Royale as a great example of current Japanese ultra-violent cinema that has much more of a heart than, say, Miike.
Hayden - Oct 27, 2006 9:02:03 pm PDT #5200 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Oh! Even though the filmmaker was Italian and some of the actors French, most of the characters in The Battle of Algiers are Muslim, African, and highly sympathetic, even when they start killing innocent people.
esse - Oct 28, 2006 1:52:29 am PDT #5201 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I think you could probably make a case for "Kung Fu Hustle" as a modern-day interpretation of classic noir in an Asian culture. Maybe show it alongside a similarly themed noir to draw those elements from it.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 28, 2006 2:26:00 am PDT #5202 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Emmett has decided he needs to see all the original horror movies.
He's probably old enough that you can throw in some of the classic Hammer versions too, and spark some comparison/contrast discussions. Probably still too early for the 70s soft-core lesbian vampire Hammer era, though.
Sue - Oct 28, 2006 5:46:21 am PDT #5203 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Megan, there's an Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka, who's adapted Shakespeare plays, but I don't know if any of them were ever filmed.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2006 5:48:27 am PDT #5204 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Probably still too early for the 70s soft-core lesbian vampire Hammer era, though.
Well, they are showing Vampyros Lesbos on cable right now.
Theodosia - Oct 28, 2006 7:01:12 am PDT #5205 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Ooh! I noticed Shaun of the Dead is on the SciFi channel tonight!
beekaytee - Oct 28, 2006 7:07:22 am PDT #5206 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Debet-That is such a good point about the widower being the one to live. So deeply sad in the existential, damn EVerybody lost in this scenario, sort of way. Good catch, I never even thought about that.
DebetEsse - Oct 28, 2006 9:40:38 am PDT #5207 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Thanks. That and Hugh's character being unable to drown himself in the sink both really struck me (the latter in retrospect)