Swan's Japanese Horror Reviews #23: Horrors of Malformed Men

ENG 282: 1920s

1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Germany: Robert Wiene. 1920: 67 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Expressionism in Cinema: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 60-66. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1921

The Phantom Carriage (Sweden: Victor Sjöström, 1921: 93 mins)

O'Donaghue, Darragh. "The Phantom Carriage." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

1922

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (Denmark/Sweden: Benjamin Christensen, 1922: 87 mins)

Anderson, Gillian. "Häxan: About the Music." Current (October 15, 2001)

Fujiwara, Chris. "Häxan." Current (October 15, 2001)

Wilkins, Budd. "Birthing Bad: Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist Through the Lens of “Nordic Horror." Acidemic #7 (2012)

Nanook of the North (USA/France: Robert J. Flaherty, 1922: 79 mins)

Duncan, Dean W. "Nanook of the North Current (January 11, 1999)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Roots of the Documentary Film: Nanook of the North." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 203-209. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1923

1924

1925

Battleship Potemkin (Soviet Union: Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925: 66 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Editing--Russian Montage: Battleship Potemkin." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 26-32. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1926

The General (USA: Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton, 1926: 107 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Period Comedy: The General." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 158-163. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1927

Metropolis (Germany: Fritz Lang, 1927: 153 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Architecture in Production Design: Metropolis." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 196-202. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1928

The Crowd (USA: King Vidor, 1928: 98 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Shot Structure: The Crowd." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 92-97. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Passion of Joan of Arc (France: Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928: 110 mins)

Danish Film Institute. "The Passion of Joan of Arc." Carl Th Dreyer: The Man and His Work (2011)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Close Up: The Passion of Joan of Arc." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 222-228. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1929

Man with a Movie Camera (Soviet Union: Dziga Vertov, 1929: 68 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Self-Referential Cinema: The Man with a Movie Camera." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 190 -195. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Pandora's Box (Germany: Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929: 133 mins)

Hoberman, J. "Opening Pandora's Box." Current (November 27, 2006)

Un Chien Andalou (France: Luis Buñuel, 1929: 16 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Surrealism in Cinema: Un Chien Andalou." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 77-83. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

ENG 282: 1930s

1930

The Blood of a Poet (France: Jean Cocteau, 1930: 55 mins)

Cocteau, Jean. "Preface to Blood of a Poet (1946) Current (April 24, 2000)

1931

1932

Boudu Saved From Drowning (France: Jean Renoir, 1932: 85 mins)

Brody, Richard. "DVD of the Week: Boudu Saved From Drowning Current (Decenber 8, 2010)

Faulkner, Christopher. "Boudu Saved from Drowning:
Tramping in the City." Current (August 22, 2005)

Broken Lullaby (USA: Ernst Lubitsch, 1932: 76 mins)

Iannone, Pasquale. "Broken Lullaby." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

One Hour With You (USA: Ernst Lubitsch, 1932: 80 mins)

Dixon, Wheeler Winston. "One Hour With You." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

1933

42nd Street (USA: Lloyd Bacon, 1933: 89 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "An American Musical: 42nd Street." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 144-150. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1934

L'Atalante (France: Jean Vigo, 1934: 89 mins)

Dawson, Mike. "World Cinema Masterpiece: L'Atalante Left Field Cinema (March 2, 2009)

Fuller, Graham. "Jean Vigo: Artist of the floating world." Sight and Sound (February 2012)

1935

The 39 Steps (United Kingdom: Alfred Hitchcock, 1935: 89 mins)

Keane, Marian. "The 39 Steps." Current (November 23, 1999)

Wilmington, Michael. "The 39 Steps." Current (December 9, 1985)

1936

1937

Grand Illusion (France: Jean Renoir, 1937: 114 mins)

Cowie, Peter. "Grand Illusion Current (November 22, 1999)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (USA: William Cottrell, et al., 1937: 83 mins)

Rapold, Nicholas. "Short and Sweet: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Reverse Shot #29 (2011)

1938

Alexander Nevsky (Soviet Union: Sergei M. Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev, 1938: 112 mins)

Hoberman, J. "Alexander Nevsky Current (April 23, 2001)

Bringing Up Baby (USA: Howard Hawks, 1938: 102 mins)

Klevan, Andrew. "Expressing the In-Between." LOLA #1 (2011)

La Bête Humaine (France: Jean Renoir, 1938: 100 mins)

O'Brien, Geoffrey. "La bête humaine: Renoir On and Off the Rails." Current (February 13, 2006)

The Lady Vanishes (UK: Alfred Hitchock, 1938: 96 mins)

Barr, Charles. "The Lady Vanishes: Tea and Treachery." Current (November 19, 2007)

O'Brien, Geoffrey. "The Lady Vanishes: All Aboard!." Current (November 19, 2007)

Wilmington, Michael. "The Lady Vanishes Current (March 26, 1998)

1939

The Rules of the Game (France: Jean Renoir, 1939: 110 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Mise-en-scene: The Rules of the Game." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 261-266. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ohayo/Good Morning (1975 Review)

OHAYO/GOOD MORNING (1975 review)
by Jonathan Rosenbaum



Devoted to both the profound necessity and the sublime silliness of gratuitous social interchange, OHAYO is a rather subtler and grander work than might appear at first. Commonly referred to as a remake of Ozu’s silent masterpiece I WAS BORN, BUT . . . , it is as interesting for its differences as for its similarities. The focus of the earlier film is a family adapting to a new neighborhood by undergoing brutal social initiations: the father humiliates himself before his boss to get ahead while the sons are accepted by their peers only after humiliating a local bully. Shocked by the behavior of their father, who says that he has to demean himself in order to feed them, the sons retaliate by going on a hunger strike. In the lighter climate of OHAYO, twenty-seven years later, the setting is again middle-class Tokyo suburbia, but the central family is firmly settled, and serious problems — whether old age, unemployment, or ostracism — are principally reserved for their neighbors and friends. The sons’ complaint this time is that their parents won’t purchase a television set and that grown-ups talk too much; the form of their rebellion is refusing to speak. Significantly, it is the humiliations in the first film which provide much of the comedy, a subject assuming gravity only when it causes a rift between father and sons. But the more pervasive humor of OHAYO extends to the rebellion itself and all it engenders, as well as the various local intrigues surrounding it. Clearly one of Ozu’s most commercially minded movies — with its stately, innocuous muzak of xylophone and strings recalling Tati backgrounds, a similar tendency to keep repeating gags with only slight variations, and a performance of pure ham (quite rare in an Ozu film) by the delightful Masahiko Shimazu as the younger brother — its intricacy becomes apparent only when one realizes that each detail intimately links up with every other. Rhythmically, this is expressed by the alternation of simply stated (if interlocking) miniplots with complex camera setups, less bound by narrative advancement, depicting the physical layout of the neighborhood itself: the perpendicular passageways between houses and the overhead road on the embankment behind brilliantly suggesting certain structures as well as strictures in a society of interdependent yet insulated busybodies.

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Films We Want to See: The Interrupters (USA: Steve James, 2011: 125 mins)

ENG 282: 1940s

1940

Fantasia (USA: Disney Studios, 1940: 124 mins)

Kutner, C. Jerry. "FANTASIA (1940) – The Varieties of Religious Experience." Bright Lights After Dark (October 25, 2011)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Animation and Music: Fantasia." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 136-143. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Great Dictator (USA: Charlie Chaplin, 1940: 125 mins)

Neibaur, James L. "The Great Dictator." Cineaste 36.4 (2011)

1941

Citizen Kane (USA: Orson Welles, 1941: 119 mins)

Gonzalez, Pedro Blas. "Citizen Kane: Biography and the Unfinished Sentence." Senses of Cinema #57 (2010)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Authorial Voice: Citizen Kane." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 84-91. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1942

Casablanca (USA: Michael Curtiz, 1942: 102 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Classical Hollywood Film Style: Casablanca." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 67-76. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Glass Key (USA: Stuart Heisler, 1942: 85 mins)

Kuersten, Erich. "The Veronica Lake Effect." Acidemic #7 (2012)

This Gun For Hire (USA: Frank Tuttle, 1942: 81 mins)

Kuersten, Erich. "The Veronica Lake Effect." Acidemic #7 (2012)

1943

Day of Wrath (Denmark: Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1943: 97 mins

Wilkins, Budd. "Birthing Bad: Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist Through the Lens of “Nordic Horror." Acidemic #7 (2012)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (UK: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1943: 163 mins)

Smith, Imogen Sara. "The Music of Words: Storytelling in Two Powell & Pressburger Films." Bright Lights Film Journal #79 (February 2013)

Shadow of a Doubt (USA: Alfred Hitchcock, 1943: 108 mins)

"Director Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ – ‘Psycho’ – ‘The Birds’." Sound on Sight #309 (February 29, 2012)

1944

Double Indemnity (USA: Billy Wilder, 1944: 107 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Film Noir: Double Indemnity." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 122-128. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

To Have and Have Not (USA: Howard Hawks, 1944: 100 mins)

Hudson, David. "Sex in the Movies." Green Cine (2005)

1945

I Know Where I Am Going (United Kingdom: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1945: 91 mins)

Smith, Imogen Sara. "The Music of Words: Storytelling in Two Powell & Pressburger Films." Bright Lights Film Journal #79 (February 2013)

The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1945: 59 mins)

Vahdani, Alireza. "The effects of Kabuki on Akira Kurosawa’s Auteurism, Pt 1." and Part 2 Offscreen (October 31, 2010)

1946

Beauty and the Beast (France: Jean Cocteau, 1946: 96 mins)

Steegmuller, Frances. "Beauty and the Beast." Current (from Cocteau: A Biography Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1970)

The Big Sleep (USA: Howard Hawks, 1946: 114 mins)

Klevan, Andrew. "Expressing the In-Between." LOLA #1 (2011)

Gilda (USA: Charles Vidor, 1946: 110 mins)

Hudson, David. "Sex in the Movies." Green Cine (2005)

1947

1948

The Bicycle Thief (Italy: Vittorio De Sica, 1948: 93 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Italian Neorealism: The Bicycle Thief." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 33-38. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Drunken Angel (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1948: 98 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

A Foreign Affair (USA: Billy Wilder, 1948: 116 mins)

Riley, Christina. "Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair: Marlene Dietrich's Star Persona and American Interventionist Strategies in Postwar Berlin." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

Fort Apache (USA: John Ford, 1948: 125 mins)

Kehr, Dave. "How the West Was Filled With Loss." The New York Times (March 25, 2012)

Red River (USA: Howard Hawks, 1948: 133 mins)

Hudson, David. "Sex in the Movies." Green Cine (2005)

1949

Stray Dog (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1949: 122 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

Megan Ratner: David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method

David Cronenberg’s “A Dangerous Method”
by Megan Ratner
Film Quarterly



At the center of the emotional and intellectual geometry of A Dangerous Method are Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and his patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a woman so afflicted when she first consults Jung that she can only speak with effort. But she responds to Jung’s prototype of psychoanalysis, and, emboldened by his success, Jung contacts Freud (Viggo Mortensen), his mentor and (as the younger man sometimes puts it) father figure. Meanwhile Spielrein graduates from Jung’s patient to his assistant, and they embark on an affair that threatens both to cause a scandal and to discredit the psychoanalytic movement.

The actors bring an understated subtlety to the material: Mortensen is surprisingly laconic and light in the role of Freud, a far cry from the aggressive protagonists he played in previous outings with Cronenberg, A History of Violence (2005) and Eastern Promises (2007). Unhurried and assured, his portrayal of Freud reveals a man convinced of his own greatness but fretfully protective of the future of his intellectual creation. This undercurrent serves him particularly well in his single scene with Spielrein, in which their shared devotion to the movement eclipses even their shared affection for Jung.

In the role of Spielrein, Knightley is initially startling. Though her writhing and grimaces are credible, it’s her consistently spooked expression, electrified and unpredictable, that makes her performance more than bravado. Even sitting relatively still during her initial session with Jung, Spielrein seems just this side of chaos. Cronenberg explained to me that Christopher Hampton studied Jung’s own notes about Spielrein during a research trip to Geneva. Additionally, Cronenberg viewed early actuality films of women with similar symptoms. “They’re very difficult to watch,” he said, “because it’s sort of a willed deforming.” He worked with the actress to go as far as possible toward depicting such self-disfigurements without getting to the point that it would become too uncomfortable for the audience. By channeling Spielrein’s mania into keen focus, as in the scene where she and Jung measure word-association reaction times (on his wife), Knightley effects a delicate transformation from madwoman to rising analyst. From the outset, she looks for no sympathy, playing Spielrein as an experimenter, unafraid of risk to her body or mind.

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ENG 282: 1950s

1950:

The Furies (USA: Anthony Mann, 1950: 109 mins)

Handzo, Stephen. "Going Through the Devil’s Doorway: The Early Westerns Of Anthony Mann." Bright Lights Film Journal #4 (Summer 1976)

In a Lonely Place (USA: Nicholas Ray, 1950: 94 mins)

Bramble, Serena. "The Heart is a “Lonely” Hunter: On Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

La Ronde (France: Max Ophüls, 1950: 97 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Camera Movement as Metaphor: La Ronde." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 255-260. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Winchester 73 (USA: Anthony Mann, 1950: 92 mins)

Handzo, Stephen. "Going Through the Devil’s Doorway: The Early Westerns Of Anthony Mann." Bright Lights Film Journal #4 (Summer 1976)

1951:

1952:

Devil's Doorway (USA: Anthony Mann, 1952: 84 mins)

Handzo, Stephen. "Going Through the Devil’s Doorway: The Early Westerns Of Anthony Mann." Bright Lights Film Journal #4 (Summer 1976)

Ikiru (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1952: 143 mins)

Ikiru Revisited." Mystery Man on Film (August 4, 2009)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

Kaufman, Aryeh. "A Study of Kurosawa’s Ikiru, Part 1
~ What it Means to Live ~" Offscreen (April 30, 2009)

The Life of Oharu (Japan: Kenji Mizoguchi, 1952: 148 mins)

Fromme, Jonathan. "Melodrama, Tears, and Life of Oharu." 16:9 (April 2004)

1953:

Tokyo Story (Japan: Yasujiro Ozu, 1953: 136 mins)
Cousins, Mark. "The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Yasujiro Ozu." BBC 4 (Posted on Youtube: September 28, 2011)

"Sight & Sound Poll 2012: Tokyo Story." Current (August 8, 2012)

1954:

Gojira (Japan: Ishirô Honda, 1954: 96 mins)

Hollings, Ken. "Tokyo Must Be Destroyed: Dreams of Tall Buildings and Monsters -- Images of Cities and Monuments." CTheory (originally published in Digital Delirium. ed. Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1997.)

Noriega, Chon. "Godzilla and the Japanese Nightmare: When Them! is U.S." Aisan Cinemas ed. Dimitris Eleftheriotis and Gary Needham. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006: 41-55.

Johnny Guitar (USA: Nicholas Ray, 1954: 110 mins)

Sanjek, David. Johnny Guitar Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

On the Waterfront (USA: Elia Kazan, 1954: 108 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Method Acting: On the Waterfront." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 215-221. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Rear Window (USA: Alfred Hitchcock, 1954: 112 mins)

Ebert, Roger. Rear Window. Chicago Sun-Times (February 20, 2000)

Seven Samurai (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1954: 207 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

"Sight and Sound Poll 2012: Seven Samurai." Current (September 28, 2012)

1955:

Death of a Cyclist (Spain/Italy: Juan Antonio Bardem, 1955: 88 mins)

Melville, David. "Bonfire of the Painted Dolls – Bardem and Death of a Cyclist." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

East of Eden (USA: Elia Kazan, 1955: 115 mins)

Merrick, Amy. "Living In: East of Eden." Design Sponge (July 12, 2011)

Kiss Me Deadly (USA: Robert Aldrich, 1955: 106 mins)

Anderson, Jeffrey M. Kiss Me Deadly Guru (June 20, 2011)

Kutner, C. Jerry. "X Me Deadly: A Visual Essay." Bright Lights After Dark (November 21, 2011)

Rebel Without a Cause (USA: Nicholas Ray, 1955: 111 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Widescreen Filmmaking: Rebel Without a Cause." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 249-254. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Slocum, J. David. Rebel Without a Cause Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

1956:

Baby Doll (USA: Elia Cazan, 1956: 114 mins)

Kuerstein, Erich. "All Tomorrow's Playground Narratives: Stanley Kubrick's Lolita." Bright Lights Film Journal #65 (August 2009)

The Searchers (USA: John Ford, 1956: 119 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Freudian Western: The Searchers." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 273-279. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1957:

The Cranes are Flying (Soviet Union: Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957: 97 mins)

Wexler, Haskell. "One Scene: The Cranes Are Flying." Current (August 22, 2011)

The Seventh Seal (Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, 1957: 96 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Defining Theme, Metaphor, and Character Through Color, Texture, and Environmental Design: Se7en." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 280-285. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Throne of Blood (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1957: 110 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

1958:

The Hidden Fortress (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1958: 139 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

Touch of Evil (USA: Orson Welles, 1958: 95 mins)

Chapman, Mark. "Clashing Harmonics: The Characteristics of Sound in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

1959:

Gidget (USA: Paul Wendkos, 1959: 95 mins)

Engle, John. "August and Everything After: A Half-Century of Surfing in Cinema." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)

Good Morning (Japan: Yasujirô Ozu, 1959: 94 mins)

Cousins, Mark. "The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Yasujiro Ozu." BBC 4 (Posted on Youtube: September 28, 2011)

Klevan, Andrew. "Expressing the In-Between." LOLA #1 (2011)

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "Ohayo/Good Morning." (Originally published in the Monthly Film Bulletin #502: November 1975)

Films We Want to See: Sound of Noise (Sweden: Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, 2010)

Sound of Noise. This imaginative comedy follows a band of outlaw musicians who wreak havoc on an unsuspecting city. The sonic outlaws devise a plan to take their percussion-based, avant-garde music to the streets. The group’s opus is titled “Music for One City and Six Drummers.” The outlaws consist of the band’s leader—a spunky heroine named Sanna Persson—and five percussionists who invade four of the city’s civic or corporate institutions to make music with whatever tools, machines, or equipment they find.

An example of their musical activism is the first movement of their opus titled “Doctor, Doctor Gimme Gas (In My Ass).” They invade a hospital, kidnap a flabby patient with gastric issues, and then lock themselves in an operating room. There they proceed to play music using scalpels, the heart machine, ventilators, and other operating equipment as their instruments. They even “play” the patient, a well-known television personality whose problems with gas make him a good percussive instrument with just the right resonance as one of the drummers pounds on his rotund belly. There are four musical movements all together, each of them funny, awe-inspiring, and politically provocative. The group’s assaults on a hospital, bank, symphony hall, and power station amount to acts of anarchy against civic and corporate institutions that play a role in lulling the masses into lives filled with the unimaginative routines of the status quo.

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ENG 282: 1960s

1960

The Bad Sleep Well (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1960: 151 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

L'avventura (Italy/France: Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960: 143 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Body as Cinematic Landscape: L'Avventura." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 20-25. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Sukhdev, Sandhu. "'Slow cinema' fights back against Bourne's supremacy." The Guardian (March 9, 2012)

Psycho (USA: Alfred Hitchcock, 1960: 109 mins)

"Director Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ – ‘Psycho’ – ‘The Birds’." Sound on Sight #309 (February 29, 2012)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Dark Side of American Cinema: Psycho." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 229-235. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Virgin Spring (Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, 1960: 89 mins)

Heller-Nicholas, Alexandra. Silence and Fury: Rape and The Virgin Spring." Screening the Past (September 1, 2010)

1961

The Exiles (USA: Kent MacKenzie, 1961: 72 mins)

Ferdinand, Marilyn. "Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (1961): This uncategorizable classic captures life in L.A.'s seamy underbelly." Bright Lights Film Journal #47 (February 2005)

Virdiana (Spain/Mexico: Luis Buñuel, 1961: 90 mins)

Hill, Lee. "Virdiana." Senses of Cinema #59 (2009)

Yojimbo (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1961: 110 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

1962

Dr. No (UK: Terence Young, 1962: 110 mins)

Lipp, Deborah. "Growing Up a Bond Girl." Audiovisualcy (November 1, 2012)

Jules and Jim (France: François Truffaut, 1962: 105 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "French New Wave: Jules and Jim." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 170-175. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Lawrence of Arabia (UK/USA: David Lean, 1962: 216 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Epic: Lawrence of Arabia." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 176-182. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Lolita (United Kingdom/USA: Stanley Kubrick, 1962: 152 mins)

Greenleaf, Monika. "Vladmir Nabokov and His Novel Lolita." Entitled Opinions (December 13, 2005)

Kuerstein, Erich. "All Tomorrow's Playground Narratives: Stanley Kubrick's Lolita." Bright Lights Film Journal #65 (August 2009)

The Manchurian Candidate (USA: John Frankenheimer, 1962: 126 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Political Thriller: The Manchurian Candidate." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 183-189. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Pitfall (Japan: Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962: 97 mins)

Benton, Michael. "Pitfall/Otoshiana (Japan: Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)." Dialogic (January 1, 2009)

Sanjuro (Japan: Aikra Kurosawa, 1962: 96 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

Sragow, Michael. "Sanjuro." Current (January 22, 2007)

1963

The Birds (USA: Alfred Hitchcock, 1963: 119 mins)

"Director Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ – ‘Psycho’ – ‘The Birds’." Sound on Sight #309 (February 29, 2012)

Contempt (France/Italy: Jean-Luc Godard, 1963: 103 mins)

McGowan, Todd. "The Love of Antagonism in Le Mepris." Acidemic #7 (2012)

From Russia With Love (UK: Terence Young, 1963: 115 mins)

Lipp, Deborah. "Growing Up a Bond Girl." Audiovisualcy (November 1, 2012)

High and Low (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1963: 143 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

Le Petit Soldat (France: Jean-Luc Godard, 1963: 88 mins)

Vicari, Justin. "Colonial fictions: Le Petit Soldat and its revisionist sequel, Beau Travail." Jump Cut #50 (2008)

The Organizer (Italy: Mario Monicello, 1963: 126 mins)

Hoberman, J. "The Organizer: Description of a Struggle." Current (April 24, 2012)

Monicello, Mario. "Workers Unite: On The Organizer." The Current (May 1, 2012)

Shock Corridor (USA: Samuel Fuller, 1963: 101 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Art of the B Movie: Shock Corridor." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 292-297. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1964

Assassination (Japan: Masahiro Shinoda, 1964: 104 mins)

Harper, Dan. "Assassination." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (USA/UK: Stanley Kubrick, 1964: 95 mins)

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (Metanoia Films, 2012) [3 pts: 1 Empire; 2 Propaganda; 3 Apocalypse. Part 3 discusses Dr Strangelove)

The Fall of the Roman Empire (USA: Anthony Mann, 1964: 188 mins)
Sabo, Lee Weston. "Auteurs in the Arena Anthony Mann's The Fall of the Roman Empire." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

Goldfinger (UK: Guy Hamilton, 1964: 110 mins)

Lipp, Deborah. "Growing Up a Bond Girl." Audiovisualcy (November 1, 2012)

The Pawnbroker (USA: Sydney Lumet, 1964: 116 mins)

Celluloid Liberation Front. "Auschwitz­–Harlem: Post-Traumatic Economy in The Pawnbroker." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

The Soft Skin (France/Portugal: François Truffaut, 1964: 113 mins)

Cain, Maximilian Le. "Love in Flight: François Truffaut’s La Peau Douce." Senses of Cinema #33 (2004)

Klevan, Andrew. "Expressing the In-Between." LOLA #1 (2011)

1965

Alphaville (France: Jean-Luc Godard, 1965: 99 mins)

Yoshioka, Maximilian. "Technocratic Totalitarianism: One-Dimensional Thought in Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

Red Beard (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1965: 185 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

Samurai Spy (Japan: Masahiro Shinoda, 1965: 102 mins)

Silver, Alain. "The Thin Line between Truth and Lies: Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

Thunderball (UK: Terence Young, 1965: 130 mins)

Lipp, Deborah. "Growing Up a Bond Girl." Audiovisualcy (November 1, 2012)

1966

The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria: Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966/2004: 121 mins)

"Battle of Algiers/Battaglia di Algeri, La (Algeria/Italy: Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)." Dialogic (Archive of sources/essays on the film and its themes: February 18, 2009)

Matthews, Peter. "The Battle of Algiers: Bombs and Boomerangs." Criterion (October 11, 2004)

Ortiz, Gaye. "Dark Beauty: Theological Perspectives on War as Cinematic Mythology." Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide. ed. Christopher Deacy and Gaye Williams Ortiz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008: 160-177.

Cul-de-sac (United Kingdom: Roman Polanski, 1966: 113 mins)

Hudson, David. "Polanski Season." Notebook (August 16, 2011)

Daisies (Czechoslovakia: Vera Chytilová, 1966: 74 mins)

Erickson, Steve. "The Art of Resistance: The brief, bright flowering of the Czech New Wave." Moving Image Source (April 24, 2012)

The Endless Summer (USA: Bruce Brown, 1966: 95 mins)

Engle, John. "August and Everything After: A Half-Century of Surfing in Cinema." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)

A Report on the Party and the Guests (Czechoslovakia: Jan Nemec, 1966: 71 mins)

Erickson, Steve. "The Art of Resistance: The brief, bright flowering of the Czech New Wave." Moving Image Source (April 24, 2012)

1967

2 or 3 Things I know About Her (France: Jean-Luc Godard, 1967: 87 mins)

Bredin, John. "2 or 3 Ways Godard Taught Us How to Speak and Live." Acidemic #6 (2010)

Bonnie and Clyde (USA: Arthur Penn, 1967: 112 mins)

Daesler, Graham. "Cutter's Way: The Mysterious Art of Film Editing." Bright Lights Film Journals #78 (2012)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Period Film as Mirror for the Present: Bonnie and Clyde." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 53-59. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Le Samourai (France/Italy: Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967: 105 mins)

"Le Samourai: Places and Maps." Cine-Tourist (2012)

Marketa Lazarová (Czechoslovakia: Frantisek Vlácil, 1967: 162 mins)

Hames, Peter. "In the Shadow of the Werewolf: František Vláčil's Markéta Lazarová." Central European Review (October 16, 2000)

Weekend (France/Italy: Jean-Luc Godard, 1967: 105 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "The Essay Film: Weekend." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 319-325. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1968

2001: A Space Odyssey (USA/UK: Stanley Kubrick, 1968: 141 mins)

Darius, Julian. " On Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Adaptation." Sequart (May 21, 2013)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Experimental Narrative: 2001: A Space Odyssey." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 312-318. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Color of Pomengranates (Soviet Union: Sergei Parajanov, 1968: 79 mins)

Nucho, Joanne. "Deep Red: The Color of Pomegranates." Reverse Shot (Spring 2004)

Salesman (USA: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin, 1968: 85 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Direct Cinema: Salesman." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 267-272. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Shame (Sweden: Ingmar Bergman, 1968: 103 mins)

Dawson, Mike. "Ingmar Bergman: Shame." Left Field Cinema (February 26, 2009)

Theorem (Teorema) (Italy: Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968: 105 mins)

McCahill, Mike. "Theorem: Pasolini gets political." Movie Mail (April 11, 2013)

1969

Army of Shadows (France/Italy: Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969: 140 mins]

Taubin, Amy. "Army of Shadows: Out of the Shadows." Criterion (May 14, 2007)

Double Suicide (Japan: Masahiro Shinoda, 1969: 142 mins)

Rutherford, Anne. "Double Suicide and the 'fetishism of space.'" Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

Horrors of Malformed Men (Japan: Teruo Ishii, 1969: 99 mins)

Curti, Roberto. "Teruo Ishii, the Outcast." Offscreen (May 31, 2003)

Swan, Rodger. "Horrors of Malformed Men." Swan's Japanese Horror Reviews #23 (January 12, 2008)

The Joke (Czechoslovakia: Jaromil Jires, 1969: 80 mins)

Erickson, Steve. "The Art of Resistance: The brief, bright flowering of the Czech New Wave." Moving Image Source (April 24, 2012)

The Royal Hunt of the Sun (UK/USA: Irving Lerner, 1969: 118 mins)

Castle, Robert. "Two Cinematic Visions of the Inca Conquest: The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Aguirre: Wrath of God." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

The Wild Bunch (USA: Sam Peckinpah, 1969: 145 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Screen Violence as Metaphor: The Wild Bunch." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 326-332. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

ENG 282: 1970s

1970

Dodes'ka-den (Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1970: 140 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

El Topo (Mexico: Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970: 125 mins)

Dollar, Steve. "Interview of Alejandro Jodorowsky." Green Cine Daily (May 21, 2011)

Myra Breckenridge (USA: Michael Sarne, 1970: 94 mins)

Kloman, Harry. "Myra Breckinridge & Myron: An Introduction." University of Pittsburgh: 2005.

Performance (UK: Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg, 1970: 105 mins)

The Influence and Controversy of Performance (DVD documentary on the 2007 Warner Brothers edition)

Lorefice, Mike. Performance Raging Bull Movies (February 22, 2002)

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1970: 88 Mins)

Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)

1971

A Clockwork Orange (UK/USA: Stanley Kubrick, 1971: 136 mins)

Ager, Rob. "'The Power Drug': An in-depth analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange." Collative Learning (2010)

Burgess, Anthony and Malcolm McDowell. "An examination of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange." (Video: 1972)

Rose, Steve. "A Clockwork Orange: The droog rides again." The Guardian (May 11, 2011)

The Devils (United Kingdom: Ken Russell, 1971: 111 mins)

Thomas, Gordon. "'Nun-Lust, Torture-Porn, Church-Desecration and Bad Taste"': Reconnecting with Ken Russell's The Devils." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

Dirty Harry (USA: Don Siegel, 1971: 102 mins)

Doherty, Thomas. "Portraits of a Serial Killer: A time-honored public enemy, from Dirty Harry to Zodiac." Moving Image Source (June 12, 2008)

The French Connection (USA: William Friedkin, 1971: 104 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "New York Filmmaking: The French Connection." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 151-157. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Harold and Maude (USA: Hal Ashby, 1971: 91 mins)

Pickles, Vivian. "Being in Harold and Maude." Current (June 20, 2012)

Seitz, Matt Zoller. "Harold and Maude: Life and How To Live It." Current (June 12, 2012)

The Merchant of Four Seasons (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971: 88 mins)

Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)

W.R.: Mysteries of an Organism (Yugoslavia/West Germany: Dusan Makavejev, 1971: 84 mins)

Porton, Richard. "WR: Mysteries of the Organism: Anarchist Realism and Critical Quandaries." LOLA #1 (2011)

1972

Aguirre: The Wrath of God (West Germany: Werner Herzog, 1972: 93 mins)

Castle, Robert. "Two Cinematic Visions of the Inca Conquest: The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Aguirre: Wrath of God." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

The Candidate (USA: Michael Ritchie, 1972: 110 mins)

McChesney, Robert W. and John Nichols. "The Bull Market: Political Advertising." Monthly Review (April 1, 2012)

The Godfather (USA: Francis Ford Coppola, 1972: 175 mins)

Freedman, Carl. "Hobbes After Marx, Scorsese After Coppola: On GoodFellas." Film International (2011)

---. "The Supplement of Coppola: Primitive Accumulation and the Godfather Trilogy." Film International 9.1 (2011): 8-41

Gamman, Lorraine. "If Looks Could Kill: On gangster suits and silhouettes." Moving Image Source (May 8, 2012)

MacDowell, James. "John Cazale: Stepped Over." Alternate Takes (June 12, 2012)

The Harder They Come (Jamaica: Perry Henzell, 1972: 120 mins)

Casimir, Ulrick. "A question of audience: Revisiting Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come." Jump Cut #53 (Summer 2011)

Pink Flamingos (USA: John Waters, 1972: 93 mins)

"Divine Trash (John Waters Special)." Naked Lunch #1 (December 7, 2008)

Solaris (Soviet Union: Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972: 165 mins)

Kapterev, Sergei, et al. "Kosmos – Polish and Russian Sci-Fi cinema." Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast (August 4, 2011)

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "Inner Space: Solaris Chicago Reader (January 12, 1990)

1973

Badlands (USA: Terrence Malick, 1973: 94 mins)

Bellamy, Jason and Ed Howard. "Conversations: Terrence Malick, Part One. The House Next Door (May 28, 2011)

Merrick, Amy. Living In: Badlands." Design Sponge (May 17, 2011)

Breezy (USA: Clint Eastwood, 1973: 102 mins)

Kuersten, Erich. "An American Rohmer: Clint Eastwood's Breezy." Acidemic #6 (2010)

The Holy Mountain (Mexico/USA: Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973: 115 mins)

Dollar, Steve. "Interview of Alejandro Jodorowsky." Green Cine Daily (May 21, 2011)

Lady Snowblood (Japan: Toshiya Fujita, 1973: 97 mins)

Kinsella, Sharon. "Men Imagining a Girl Revolution." CMS Colloquium Podcast (December 11, 2006)

The Last Detail (USA: Hal Ashby, 1973: 104 mins)

O'Brien, Adam. "Regional Horizons in The Last Detail." Movie #4 (2013)

Mean Streets (USA: Martin Scorsese, 1973: 112 mins)

"A Life in Pictures: Martin Scorsese." BAFTA (April 6, 2011)

Requiem for a Vampire (France: Jean Rollin, 1973: 95 mins)

Spigland, Ethan. "Requiem for a Dreamer: Jean Rollin." Acidemic #6 (2010)

The Wicker Man (UK: Robin Hardy, 1973: 88 mins)

Farrow, Robert. "The Wicker Man: Games of truth, anthropology, and the death of ‘man’." Metaphilm (June 20, 2005)

World on a Wire (Germany: Werner Rainer Fassbinder, 1973: 205 mins)

Celluloid Liberation Front. "World on a Wire: Reality is Colder than Fiction." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

1974

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974: 93 mins)

Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)

Savage, Julian. "The Conscious Collusion of the Stare: The Viewer Implicated in Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul." Senses of Cinema #51 (2011)

Chinatown (USA: Roman Polanski, 1974: 130 mins)

Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Chinatown." Design Sponge (April 12, 2011)

The Conversation (USA: Francis Ford Coppola, 1974: 113 mins)

MacDowell, James. "John Cazale: Stepped Over." Alternate Takes (June 12, 2012)

The Godfather: Part Two (USA: Francis Ford Coppola, 1974: 200 mins)

Freedman, Carl. "Hobbes After Marx, Scorsese After Coppola: On GoodFellas." Film International (2011)

---. "The Supplement of Coppola: Primitive Accumulation and the Godfather Trilogy." Film International 9.1 (2011): 8-41

Gamman, Lorraine. "If Looks Could Kill: On gangster suits and silhouettes." Moving Image Source (May 8, 2012)

MacDowell, James. "John Cazale: Stepped Over." Alternate Takes (June 12, 2012)

Hearts and Minds (USA: Peter Davis, 1974: 112 mins)

Turse, Nick. "Kill Anything That Moves: New Book Exposes Hidden Crimes of the War Kerry, Hagel Fought in Vietnam." Democracy Now (January 15, 2013)

The Parallax View (USA: Alan J. Pakula, 1974: 102 mins)

Thoret, Jean-Baptiste. "The Seventies Reloaded: (What does the cinema think about when it dreams of Baudrillard?)." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

Phantom of the Paradise (USA: Brian De Palma, 1974: 92 mins)

Leatherwood, Roger. "The Phantom Archivist and The Phantom Archives: The Amateur Online Archive of Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974)." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)

The Swan Archives (Ongoing online archive for materials related to Phantom of the Paradise)

Sweet Movie (Canada/France/West Germany: Dusan Makavejev, 1974: 98 mins)

Mortimer, Lorraine. "Something Against Nature: Sweet Movie, 4, and Disgust." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

A Woman Under the Influence (USA: John Cassavettes, 1974: 155 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Independent Filmmaking: A Woman Under the Influence." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 333-340. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

The Yakuza (USA/Japan: Sydney Pollack, 1974: 123 mins)

Adelstein, Jake. "The Hardest Men In Town: Yakuza Chronicles of Sin, Sex and Violence (Japan Society Yakuza Film Festival Day One): The Yakuza." Japan Subculture Research Center (March 10, 2011)

1975

Dersu Uzala (Soviet Union/Japan: Akira Kurosawa, 1975: 144 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Epic Dreamer: An Akira Kurosawa Profile." Flickering Myth (March 24, 2010)

Dog Day Afternoon (USA: Sidney Lumet, 1975: 125 mins)

MacDowell, James. "John Cazale: Stepped Over." Alternate Takes (June 12, 2012)

Fox and His Friends (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975: 123 mins)

Browne, Colin. Fox and His Friends Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)

Jaws (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1975: 124 mins)

Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)

Tracy, Andrew. "Depth Perception." Reverse Shot #31 (2012)

Nashville (USA: Robert Altman, 1975: 159 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Multiplot, Multicharacter Narrative: Nashville." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 209-214. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia: Peter Weir, 1975: 115 mins)

Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Picnic at Hanging Rock." Design Sponge (April 2010)

Reznick, Graham. "One Scene: Picnic at Hanging Rock." The Current (August 1, 2011)

Three Days of the Condor (USA: Sydney Pollack, 1975: 117 mins)

Thoret, Jean-Baptiste. "The Seventies Reloaded: (What does the cinema think about when it dreams of Baudrillard?)." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

1976

Carrie (USA: Brian De Palma, 1976: 98 mins)

"Carrie. (1976) Brian De Palma." Film Sweep (June 8, 2011)

In the Realm of the Senses (France/Japan: Nagisa Ôshima, 1976: 109 mins)

Ôshima, Nagisa. "On In the Realm of the Senses." Current (April 1983)

Parkinson, David. "Oshima's Passions/" Movie Mail (February 27, 2013)

Richie, Donald. "In the Realm of the Senses: Some Notes on Oshima and Pornography." Current (December 2006)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (USA: Clint Eastwood, 1976: 135 mins)

Cheney, Matthew. "Outlaw: Josey Wales." Audiovisualcy (September 2012)

Taxi Driver (USA: Martin Scorsese, 1976: 113 mins)

Hamilton, John R. "Paul Schrader." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

Iannucci, Matthew J. "Postmodern Antihero: Capitalism and Heroism in Taxi Driver." Bright Lights Film Journal #47 (February 2007)

"A Life in Pictures: Martin Scorsese." BAFTA (April 6, 2011)

The Tenant (France: Roman Polanski, 1976: 125 mins)



Del Valle, David. "Wig of a Poet: Un Polanski Rorschach." Acidemic #6 (2010)

Fernandez, Ingrid. "Visions of the Other: The Return of the Abject in Roman Polanski's The Tenant." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

1977

Annie Hall (USA: Woody Allen, 1977: 93 mins)

Daesler, Graham. "Cutter's Way: The Mysterious Art of Film Editing." Bright Lights Film Journals #78 (2012)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Transformation of the American Comedy: Annie Hall." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 7-13. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1977: 132 mins)

Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)

Hynes, Eric. "Wishing On a Starship." Reverse Shot #31 (2012)

Tracy, Andrew. "Depth Perception." Reverse Shot #31 (2012)

Star Wars (USA: George Lucas, 1977: 121 mins)

Putnam, Graham. Luke's Change: an Inside Job (Video posted on YouTube: March 16, 2013)

1978

Big Wednesday (USA: John Milius, 1978: 129 mins)

Engle, John. "August and Everything After: A Half-Century of Surfing in Cinema." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)

Blue Collar (USA: Paul Schrader, 1978: 114 mins)

Hamilton, John R. "Paul Schrader." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

Days of Heaven (USA: Terrence Malick: 1978: 90 mins)

Bellamy, Jason and Ed Howard. "Conversations: Terrence Malick, Part One. The House Next Door (May 28, 2011)

The Deer Hunter (USA: Michael Cimino, 1978: 182 mins)

MacDowell, James. "John Cazale: Stepped Over." Alternate Takes (June 12, 2012)

Empire of Passion (Japan/France: Nagisa Ôshima, 1978: 105 mins)

Parkinson, David. "Oshima's Passions/" Movie Mail (February 27, 2013)

Halloween (USA: John Carpenter, 1978: 91 mins)

Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

In a Year with 13 Moons (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978: 124 mins)

Harkins-Cross, Rebecca. "Searching for the Self in Fassbinder’s In a Year with Thirteen Moons." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

1979

Apocalypse Now (USA: Francis Ford Coppola, 1979: 153/203 mins)

The Apocalypse Now Issue Little White Lies #35 (2011)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Tableau Narrative Structure and Sound Design: Apocalypse Now." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 14-19. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Camera Buff (Poland: Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979: 117 mins)

Cummings, Doug. "Great Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski." Senses of Cinema #27 (2003)

Hardcore (USA: Paul Schrader, 1979: 109 mins)

Hamilton, John R. "Paul Schrader." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

The Marriage of Maria Braun (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979: 120 mins)

Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)

Mahani, Najmeh Khalili. "Mirroring History: Fassbinder’s The BRD Trilogy." Offscreen 17.2 (February 28, 2013)

Stalker (Soviet Union: Andrey Tarkovskiy, 1979: 163 mins)

Kapterev, Sergei, et al. "Kosmos – Polish and Russian Sci-Fi cinema." Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast (August 4, 2011)

"Stalker. (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky." Film Sweep (September 11, 2010)

The Third Generation (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979: 105 mins)

Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)

O'Donoghue, Darragh. "The Third Generation." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

ENG 282: 1980s

1980

American Gigolo (USA: Paul Schrader, 1980: 117 mins)

Hamilton, John R. "Paul Schrader." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

Berlin Alexanderplatz (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980: 894 mins)

Hoberman, J. "The Single Antidote to Thoughts of Suicide: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s American friends." Moving Image Source (June 28, 2012)

Heaven's Gate (USA: Michael Cimino, 1980: 149 mins)

Dawson, Mike. "Misunderstood Cinema: Heaven's Gate." Left Field Cinema (March 18, 2009)

Lim, Dennis. "Time Has Been Kind to ‘Heaven’s Gate’." The New York Times (September 23, 2012)

Raging Bull (USA: Martin Scorsese, 1980: 129 mins)

"A Life in Pictures: Martin Scorsese." BAFTA (April 6, 2011)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Subtext in Personal Expression: Raging Bull." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 236-242. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Terror Train (USA: Roger Spottiswoode, 1980: 97 mins)

Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

1981

Blind Chance (Poland: Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1981: 114 mins)

Cummings, Doug. "Great Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski." Senses of Cinema #27 (2003)

Lola (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981: 113 mins)

Mahani, Najmeh Khalili. "Mirroring History: Fassbinder’s The BRD Trilogy." Offscreen 17.2 (February 28, 2013)

My Dinner with Andre (USA: Louis Malle, 1981: 110 mins)

Nayman, Adam. "Beyond Words: Old Joy and My Dinner With Andre." Reverse Shot #29 (2011)

Polyester (USA: John Waters, 1981: 86 mins)

"Divine Trash (John Waters Special)." Naked Lunch #1 (December 7, 2008)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1981: 115 mins)

Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)

1982

Blade Runner (USA/Hong Kong: Ridley Scott, 1982: 117 mins)

Benedict, Steven. "Analysis of Blade Runner." Vimeo (August 7, 2012)

Clute, Shannon and Richard Edwards. "Episode 6: Blade Runner." Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir (September 2005)

Kunkel, Benjamin. "Dystopia and the End of Politics." Dissent (Fall 2008)

Llinares, Dario. "Adapting an Askance Perspective: Philip K. Dick on Film." Alternate Takes (October 25, 2012)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Production Design: Blade Runner." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 39-45. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Films Seriously. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.

Sims, Christopher A. "The Dangers of Individualism and the Human Relationship to Technology in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Science Fiction Studies 36.1 (March 2009)

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1982: 115 mins)

Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)

The King of Comedy (USA: Martin Scorsese, 1982: 109 mins)

"A Life in Pictures: Martin Scorsese." BAFTA (April 6, 2011)

Veronika Voss (West Germany: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982: 104 mins)

Bingham, Adam. "Hollywood, Germany: The Longing of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss." Senses of Cinema #59 (2011)

Mahani, Najmeh Khalili. "Mirroring History: Fassbinder’s The BRD Trilogy." Offscreen 17.2 (February 28, 2013)

1983

Scarface (USA: Brian De Palma, 1983: 170 mins)

"Scarface. (1983) Brian De Palma." Filmsweep (July 27, 2011)

Sleepaway Camp (USA: Robert Hiltzik, 1983: 88 mins)

Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

Videodrome (Canada: David Cronenberg, 1983: 87 mins)

Bale, Miriam. "They Came From Within: Yonic symbolism in the films of David Cronenberg." Moving Image (January 20, 2012)

McCormack, Tim. "Laws of Desire: What did David Cronenberg's Videodrome get right about us?" Moving Image (January 26, 2012)

1984

Dune (USA: David Lynch, 1984: 137 mins)

Dawson, Mike. "Misunderstood Modern Cinema: Dune Left Field Cinema (August 5, 2009)

Full Moon In Paris (France: Eric Rohmer, 1984: 100 mins)

Klevan, Andrew. "Expressing the In-Between." LOLA (2011)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 1984: 117 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Drawn to Anime: A Hayao Miyazaki Profile." Flickering Myth (May 26, 2010)

Voyage to Cythere (Greece/Italy/UK/West Germany: Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1984: 120 mins)

Horton, Andrew. "The Greek and Balkan Spirit of Comedy During the Journeys with the Films of Theo Angelopoulos." Greek Cinema and Films About Greece (2012)

1985

Brazil (UK: Terry Gilliam, 1985: 132 mins)

James, Clive. "Terry Gilliam." Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007: 171-179. [Professor has copy]

The Color Purple (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1985: 154 mins)

Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (USA/Japan: Paul Schrader, 1985: 121 mins)

Hamilton, John R. "Paul Schrader." Senses of Cinema #56 (2010)

No End (Poland: Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1985: 109 mins)

Cummings, Doug. "Great Directors: Krzysztof Kieslowski." Senses of Cinema #27 (2003)

Police Story (Hong Kong: Jackie Chan, 1985: 101 mins)

Bordwell, David. "Bond vs. Chan: Jackie shows how it’s done." Observations on Film Art." (September 15, 2010)

Runaway Train (USA: Andrey Konchalovskiy, 1985: 111 mins)

Daseler, Graham. "La Bete Humaine: Runaway Train." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)

Shoah (France: Claude Lanzmann, 1985: 544 mins)

Goddard, Stephen. "'So, Did You See Me?': Testimony, Memory and Re-Making Film History." LOLA #1 (2011)

1986

Aliens (USA: James Cameron, 1986: 137 mins)

Ager, Rob. "'The Antidote Sequel': A thematic analysis of James Cameron’s Aliens." Collative Learning (2010)

Blue Velvet (USA: David Lynch, 1986: 120 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Dream State: Blue Velvet." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 46-52. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Macaulay, Scott. "NOW IT’S DARK… THE “BLUE VELVET” PROJECT." Filmmaker Magazine (August 7, 2011)

Rombes, Nicholas. "The Blue Velvet Project." Filmmaker Magazine (August 8, 2011: Ongoing)

Slaughter High (USA/UK: George Dugdale, Mark Ezra and Peter Litten, 1986: 90 mins)

Loudermilk, A. "Last to Leave the Theater: Sissy Spectatorship of Stalker Movies and the "Final Girls" Who Survive Them." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

Stand By Me (USA: Rob Reiner, 1986: 89 mins)

Condon, Emily. "The Real Kids: Thirteen and Stand By Me." Reverse Shot #29 (2011)

1987

Empire of the Sun (USA: Steven Spielberg, 1987: 152 mins)

Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)

1988

Chocolat (France/West Germany/Cameroon: Claire Denis, 1988: 105 mins)

Ventura, Elbert. "Colonial Architecture: Chocolat." Reverse Shot #29 (2009)

Wood, Robin. "Claire Denis: Cinema of Transgression, Part 1." Film International (April 1, 2011)

Damnation (Hungary: Bela Tarr, 1988: 116 mins)

Cutler, Aaron. "Multiple Vision Deciphering the isolated gazes in the films of Béla Tarr." Multiple Image Source (February 2012)

Dangerous Liaisons (USA/UK: Stephen Frears, 1988: 119 mins)

Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Dangerous Liaisons." Design Sponge (May 10, 2011)

The Deaclogue (Poland: Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1988: Ten 55 minute episodes)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Thematic Unity: The Decalogue." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 98-106. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Distant Voices, Still Lives (UK: Terence Davies, 1988: 85 mins)

Wood, Jason. "Directors of the Year: Terence Davies." International Film Guide: 2012 ed. Ian Hadyn Smith.

Hairspray (USA: John Waters, 1988: 92 mins)

"Divine Trash (John Waters Special)." Naked Lunch #1 (December 7, 2008)

Heathers (USA: Michael Lehmann, 1988: 103 mins)

Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Heathers." Design Sponge (April 26, 2011)

My Neighbor Totoro (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 1988: 86 mins)

Hogg, Trevor. "Drawn to Anime: A Hayao Miyazaki Profile." Flickering Myth (May 26, 2010)

Patty Hearst (UK/USA: Paul Schrader, 1988: 108 mins)

Brody, Richard. "DVD of the Week: Patty Hearst." The Front Row (June 8, 2011)

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (USA: Todd Haynes, 1988: 43 mins)

Benyo, Crystina and Sic Ric. "Naked Lunch Radio #12 – Superstar! The Todd Haynes Story." Sound on Sight (December 8, 2008)

Leyda, Julia. ""Something That Is Dangerous and Arousing and Transgressive": An Interview with Todd Haynes." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)

The Thin Blue Line (USA: Errol Morris, 1988: 103 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Birth of a Nonfiction Film Style: The Thin Blue Line." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 305-311. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

1989

"Do the Right Thing." (USA: Spike Lee, 1989: 120 mins)

LoBrutto, Vincent. "Political Objectives through Cinematic Story Telling: Do the Right Thing." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 114-121. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]

Phillips, Kendall R. "Race and Ethnicity: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing." Controversial Cinema: The Films That Outraged America." Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008: 86-126. [BCTC Library: PN1995.9 S284 P45 2008]

The Seventh Continent (Austria: Michael Haneke, 1989: 104 mins)

Dawson, Mike. "Contemporary Obscurity: The Glaciation Trilogy." Left Field Cinema (February 23, 2009)

Frey, Mattias. "Great Directors: Michael Haneke." Senses of Cinema #57 (2010)