Originally posted by seraphimvultureThat's good, I guess you are an American telling everyone your way is the only way.
MOVIES. Not film. Film is what goes into a camera. Movies. Jesus Christ bananas.
Actually, "movies" have always been known as "films" where I come from but I wouldn't tell you that you are wrong to call them movies. Or that spelling colour, favourite etc etc without a U is wrong. [even though it is]
Originally posted by seraphimvulture"I am proud never to have used the word "movie", and of never having had a quotation from one of my reviews used to adorn a cinema advertisement"--Peter Ackroyd, on leaving the Spectator film column.
MOVIES. Not film. Film is what goes into a camera. Movies. Jesus Christ bananas.
Originally posted by RBHILLHmmm what did you learn? BTW, impressive list of films!
I was in an Introduction to film class this semester and the movies we watched where this:
The Kid with Charlie Chaplin
High Noon
The Maltese Falcon
Taxi Driver
Blade Runner
The Shining
The last Picture Show
The Graduate
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind
The Conversation
The Deer Hunter
Originally posted by KneverKnightWe had a book called "film an Introduction" by William H. Phillips.
Hmmm what did you learn? BTW, impressive list of films!
And in it we read Chapters called:Ch. 6 Aspects of the Fictional Film
Ch.1 Mise en Scene
Ch.2 Cinematography
Ch.3 Editing
Ch.4 Sound
And there were other chapters in the book but we did not get to them.
For each chapter we had quizes on definitions for each chapter.
And the we had to answer Question that had to do with sound for the last to movies I listed and Editing for the 2 before that and so on.
He also showed bite of other films and we talked about them.
We had to write an essay on one of them so I chose Blade Runner.
The only 2 I had seen from the list before was Blade Runner(This movie was from a book called( Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and The Shinning.
Originally posted by RBHILLThere's some pretty good films amongst them!
I was in an Introduction to film class this semester and the movies we watched where this:
The Kid with Charlie Chaplin
High Noon
The Maltese Falcon
Taxi Driver
Blade Runner
The Shining
The last Picture Show
The Graduate
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless Mind
The Conversation
The Deer Hunter
What was your favourite? Why did you like it?
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McMurtry is overrated. The Last Movie also from 1971 is far superior to The Last Picture Show, but is nearly impossible to find.
Your professor chose some interesting movies, but the selection lacks the substance one would expect in a first rate course on film.
You need to watch
Battleship Potemkin
The Searchers
The Godfather, Part 2
Citizen Kane
A Clockwork Orange
Rashomon
Apocalypse Now
King Kong (1933)
Nosferatu
The Fast Runner
Das Boot
The Birth of a Nation
After these, you will know a little about film, and a bit about the world as well.