02-15-2010, 11:51 AM
Silent era, at least one - probably Chaplin, Frankenstein is a great suggestion too
Expressionism - Metropolis
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5245606,00.html
Populism - It's a Wonderful Life, Shirley Temple,
Screwball comedy and sexuality - It Happened one Night or Grant and Hepburn "Bringing up Baby"
Film noir - Kiss Me Deadly. Double Indemnity, Maltese Falcon, Postman Always Rings Twice ...
4) Hitchcock - either Rear Window or Vertigo would be my first picks.
War movie or after - Casablanca, African Queen, Best Years of Our Lives
Western (The Searchers or Shane)
Some Like it Hot (gender fluidity)
Musical - Singing in the Rain
Citizen Kane
A spectacle film - Greatest Story ever Told, or Ben Hur, Cleopatra, etc..
late 60's
At least one film about civil rights-race - In the Heat of the Night (Sydney Poitier)
Little Big Man
Easy Rider
Lawrence of Arabia
Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange)
The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Bonnie and Clyde, Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, Taxi Driver.
Directors: Robert Altman, Scorcese, Woody Allen, Spielberg, Coppola
I suppose Star Wars has to be there, but I always preferred Spielberg to Lucas - Indiana Jones Raiders.
Probably the movie that I loved the most growing up was Erroll Flynn's Robin Hood. I just loved that movie. I also liked Brit comedies a lot. As something a bit off the beaten path I would suggest "The Horses Mouth" with Sir Alec Guinness. Oh and while speaking of the great Sir Alec, Bridge On the River Kwai should be a contender too. [8D] It won 7 Oscars and deserved them more than Titanic IMHO. The screenwriters were blacklisted and only got their proper credit posthumously.
I think a good film class combines genre, social and historical context, iconic films, groundbreaking cinema, and addresses both the technological changes and the growth of the Studio System, the Hayes Code, the McCarthy Era, the rise of Independents.
Expressionism - Metropolis
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5245606,00.html
Populism - It's a Wonderful Life, Shirley Temple,
Screwball comedy and sexuality - It Happened one Night or Grant and Hepburn "Bringing up Baby"
Film noir - Kiss Me Deadly. Double Indemnity, Maltese Falcon, Postman Always Rings Twice ...
4) Hitchcock - either Rear Window or Vertigo would be my first picks.
War movie or after - Casablanca, African Queen, Best Years of Our Lives
Western (The Searchers or Shane)
Some Like it Hot (gender fluidity)
Musical - Singing in the Rain
Citizen Kane
A spectacle film - Greatest Story ever Told, or Ben Hur, Cleopatra, etc..
late 60's
At least one film about civil rights-race - In the Heat of the Night (Sydney Poitier)
Little Big Man
Easy Rider
Lawrence of Arabia
Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove, Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange)
The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Bonnie and Clyde, Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, Taxi Driver.
Directors: Robert Altman, Scorcese, Woody Allen, Spielberg, Coppola
I suppose Star Wars has to be there, but I always preferred Spielberg to Lucas - Indiana Jones Raiders.
Probably the movie that I loved the most growing up was Erroll Flynn's Robin Hood. I just loved that movie. I also liked Brit comedies a lot. As something a bit off the beaten path I would suggest "The Horses Mouth" with Sir Alec Guinness. Oh and while speaking of the great Sir Alec, Bridge On the River Kwai should be a contender too. [8D] It won 7 Oscars and deserved them more than Titanic IMHO. The screenwriters were blacklisted and only got their proper credit posthumously.
I think a good film class combines genre, social and historical context, iconic films, groundbreaking cinema, and addresses both the technological changes and the growth of the Studio System, the Hayes Code, the McCarthy Era, the rise of Independents.