American New Wave & Film Project

Please turn in your homework from last class. Use your time in the lab today to either complete your homework (see below), to read the last articles for this class (due by Friday) or, obviously, complete your film project. Film projects are due by end of next class. If you finish your project, please let me know and I'll explain how to prepare it for the film contest, uploading to Youtube and/or saving the file on a jump drive.

A note about the end of this course:
We will not have time to complete this course this year. What are we missing? Well, plenty. But the units that I will reserve for next year's Writing Across Cultures class include: Blaxploitation films, French and Italian cinema, and dogma 95. This year, we will end by reading about the home video invasion, blockbusters, and CGI in film. 

This summer: your homework is to watch a summer blockbuster and put it in perspective to what you've learned in this class as regards film history, style, technique, or relevance.

HOMEWORK: American New Wave Directors: Please watch at least 3 clips from any films by at least one of these directors (search on youtube.com for example). Titles of some appropriate films are listed in your article and from your reading. Please post a response to the forum question by next class on your response to the American New Wave directors. This is part of your homework.

• Woody Allen
• Robert Altman
• Hal Ashby
• Peter Bogdanovich
• John Cassavetes
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Brian De Palma
• William Friedkin
• Dennis Hopper
• George Lucas
• Mike Nichols
• Bob Rafelson
• Martin Scorsese
• Steven Spielberg

With the change in restrictions based on the rating system from the MPAA, content in films gets grittier, more violent, more sexual, and more...well...Hollywood. View a few clips of famous films and film categories developed in the 1960's. You may watch any 1960 film for extra credit, just like you might have done for the 1930's, 1940's, and 1950's.

1960's Epic/Costume Drama Films:
Spartacus (1960) Tony Curtis, Laurence Olivier, Charleton Heston
El Cid (1961) Charleton Heston
Cleopatra (1963) Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
Becket (1964) Richard Burton & Peter O'Toole
The Sound of Music (1965) Julie Andrews & Christopher Plumber
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
The Lion in Winter (1968) Peter O'Toole & Katherine Hepburn

Angry Young Man Films:
Look Back in Anger (1959)
The Loneliness of the Longdistance Runner (1962)
The Caretaker (1963)
The Leather Boys (1963)
If (1968)
Easy Rider (1969)

Beatles' Films
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Help! (1965)
Yellow Submarine (1968)

Famous/Influential Directors:
Stanley Kubrick: Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964)
John Ford: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
George Pal: The Time Machine (1960), Jason & the Argonauts (1963), One Million Years BC (1966)
John Frankenheimer: The Young Savages (1961), The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Arthur Penn: The Miracle Worker (1962), Bonny & Clyde (1967), Alice's Restaurant (1969)
Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966)
James Bond Films: Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964)

African American Films:
Sidney Poitier: A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Lilies of the Field (1963), To Sir With Love (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and the full film (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)

Now, complete your film projects!