APRIL 9

Film:

Mes Petites Amoureuses (Eustache 1974) Personal DVD on Mairs reserve shelf    

Reading (to be done by April 15):

Nick Pinkerton. "His Little Loves."

Paper topic (Paper due April 16 - undergraduates print copy and bring to class, graduates send via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):

Compare two performances from films screened in class this semester. This is best done through careful consideration of two short scenes. Issues to consider might include your sense of the authenticity or naturalism of the performance, the level of theatricality or artifice and the extent to which the performance leads you to identify with the character. Please define your terms carefully; don't expect your reader to understand what you mean by a "real" or "natural" performance.

APRIL 2

Film:

The Ascent (Shepitko 1977) DVD 3651     

Excerpt:

Come and See (Klimov 1985) DVD 2602  (opening ten minutes)   

Reading (to be done by April 8):

Leonard Pierce. “A Country As Ugly as War Itself.”  

Paper topic (Strict deadline – paper due April 9, to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file. All late papers must be arranged discussed with me before the due fate!):

Two pages of work on your final paper. This can be virtually anything: an outline, research notes from one of your sources, an annotated bibliography, a sketch version of analysis of a film or a scene – anything at all, so long as it gets you two pages further into work on your paper.  

MARCH 19

Films:

Killer of Sheep (Burnett 1977) DVD 2425

Tongues Untied (Riggs 1989) DVD 4546

     

Reading (to be done by April 1):

Ntongela Masilela  “The Los Angeles School of Black

Filmmakers.” (in course reader) 

Ron Simmons. "Tongues Untied: An Interview with Marlon

Riggs." (in course reader) 

No new assignment: please use the break to catch up on short papers, begin research on your final, and spend time with your friends and family.

MARCH 12

Film:

Charulata (Ray 1964) Blu-Ray 286     

Excerpts:

Do Bigha Zamin (Roy 1953) 2:15 to 6:30 DVD 2604

The World of Apu (Ray 1959) 1:34:16 to 1:45:35 DVD 286

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Reading (to be done by March 18):

Sragrow, Michael. "An Art Wedded to Truth."

Paper topic (paper due March 19 - THIS IS A VERY FIRM DEADLINE. All papers to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):

Proposal for final paper. See handout for instructions. Handout is in "Syllabus, etc" sidebar on right.

MARCH 5

Films:

Daisies (Chytilova 1966) DVD 5059     

Simon of the Desert (Buñuel 1965) DVD 3281  

Duck Amuck (Jones 1953) Blu-Ray 114 disc 1

Reading (to be done by March 11):

Małgorzata Radkiewicz. “Angry 
young girls: 
Gender representations in 
Věra Chytilová's Sedmikrásky and Pasti, pasti,  pastičky.”  

Paper topic (paper due March 12. All undergraduate papers to be printed and stapled and brought to class. All graduate papers to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):

Discuss the final scenes of Daisies. How do you read them in relationship to the film’s first 70 minutes? Pay particular attention to the scene in the water that begins the sequence, the dialogue in the cleaning scene, the short montage that follows it, and the final text.

FEBRUARY 26

Film:

Masculine Feminine (Godard 1965) DVD 1752        

Excerpts:

Breathless (Godard 1959) Blu-Ray 060 (opening to 8:08)

Tout va bien (Godard/Gorin 1972) DVD 1398 (opening to 5:20, 1:08:14 to 1:14:07)

Reading (to be done by March 4):

Gene Youngblood. “Jean-Luc Godard: No Difference Between Life and Cinema”  (in course reader)

Maany Farber. “Jean-Luc Godard”  (in course reader)

Paper topic (paper due March 5. All undergraduate papers to be printed and stapled and brought to class. All graduate papers to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):

No new assignment – use this week to turn in all your short papers and catch up on the reading. Please remember that this week is the drop dead date – the first five papers must be turned in by 4 pm.

FEBRUARY 19

Films:

Happiness (Varda 1964) DVD 5230        

Antoine et Colette (Truffuat 1962) DVD 388

Excerpt:

Band of Outsiders (Godard 1965) DVD 623 (45:07 to 51:50)

Reading (to be done by February 25):

François Truffaut. “Evolution of the New Wave: Truffaut in  interview  with Jean-Louis Comolli, Jean Narboni (extracts).”  (in course reader)

Jonathan Rosenbaum. “Sexism in the French New Wave.”

Paper topic (paper due February 26. All undergraduate papers to be printed and stapled and brought to class. All graduate papers to be sent via email to elkrugamigos@earthlink.net, attached as a .doc, .docx, .rtf or .odt file):

Write about whatever you find most striking about Happiness. Aim for specificity: frame your argument through a detailed discussion of one or two short scenes.