JANUARY 28

Film:

Late Spring (Ozu 1949) Blu-Ray 136

Excerpts:

Good Morning (Ozu 1959) DVD 192 (14:35 to 16:17)

In a Lonely Place (Ray 1950) DVD 752 (16:47 to 19:56)

Reading (to be done by February 3): 

Robin Wood. Excerpt from “Resistance to Definiton: Ozu’s ‘Noriko’ Trilogy.”  (in course reader)

Thom Andersen. “Ozu Yasujiro: The Master of Time.”

Paper topic (paper due February 4 by 4 p.m. Graduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu; undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com):

Discuss your response to both Robin Wood and Thom Andersen’s essays on Ozu. Compare their approaches to Ozu (with the understanding that Andersen is discussing the broad career and aesthetics of Ozu while Wood is doing both that and offering a precise critique of Late Spring, as well as the fact that Wood’s piece is 5 or 6 times longer than Andersen’s) in light of your own experience of Late Spring.

JANUARY 21

Film:

Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, 1948) DVD 3702

Excerpts:

The Postman Always Rings Twice  (Garnett, 1946) DVD 4235 (1:19 to 5:54)

Ossessione (Visconti, 1943) DVD 527 (1:29 to 8:20)

Open City (Rossellini, 1945) DVD 3700 (46:41 to 58:18)

                  

Umberto D (DeSica, 1952) DVD 990 (31:40 to 36:41)

Reading (to be done by January 27): 

Cesare Zavattini. "Some Ideas on the Cinema." (in course reader)

Amédée Ayfe. “Neo-Realism and Phenomonology.” (in course reader)

Roberto Rossellini, Roberto. “Rosselliniʼs Ten Commandments to his students at the Centro Sperimentale.”

 

Paper topic (paper due January 28 by 4 p.m. Graduates and new undergraduates email paper to gmairs@calarts.edu; returning undergraduates email paper to FilmHistoryTA@gmail.com):

Imagine a favorite Hollywood style narrative shot as a neo-realist film. How does it change the look and the story, the texture and the editing of the film? Be specific, and root it in discussing just one short scene. Consider this a very firm deadline!

What is neorealism? from kogonada on Vimeo.

JANUARY 14

Film:

Beau Travail (Denis, 1999) DVD 556

Reading (to be done by January 20): 

Aimé Ancian. “Clair Denis: An Interview.” 

Susan Sontag. "Against Interpretation."