ENG 282: Spring 2017 Resources

The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films They Shoot Pictures Don't They (Ongoing Archive)

Archives of Individual Films

BCTC LibGuides: Film Studies

Benton, Michael. Recommended Films from the 1930s to the Present Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Bluegrass Film Society (BFS screenings for extra credit and response opportunity)

Critics Round Up (Website)

Dirks, Tim. Film Genres: Origins and Types Film Site (Collection of Archives/Posts)

ENG 282 Letterboxd Profiles

Lenos, Melissa and Michael Ryan.  An Introduction to Film Analysis: Technique and Meaning in Narrative Film. Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. [Course book]

Letterboxd [If you choose to write response to a film we have screened in class, you have until the end of the following Tuesday (midnight) to write and post it.  This is to keep you from trying to write all your posts at the end-of-the-semester.  You, of course, can write responses on the films that are a part of the BFS film series and I will provide an ongoing list of films in local theaters that are available for responses.  You are limited to no more than two responses a week (once again I do not want you trying to cram a whole bunch of rushed responses at the end-of-the-semester).]

Rotten Tomatoes (Website)

The Stories We Tell: Quote File Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Video Essays Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Yale Film Studies: Film Analysis Web Site 2.0

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Course films:

Ex Machina (UK: Alex Garland, 2015: 108 mins)

Hunger (UK/Ireland: Steve McQueen, 2008: 96 mins)

The Forbidden Room (Canada: Evan Johnson and Guy Maddin, 2015: 130 mins)

A Separation (Iran: Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina: Ciro Guerra, 2015: 125 mins)

Lourdes  (Austria/France/Germany: Jessica Hausner, 2009)

20th Century Women (USA: Mike Mills, 2016)

Force Majeure  (Sweden/France/Denmark/Norway: Ruben Östlund, 2014: 118 mins)




Optional films in local theaters and the Bluegrass Film Society (response opportunities):

Bluegrass Film Society: Spring 2017 Schedule (click on links for location/date/time)

Fandango (Put your zip in the search engine and it will show you what is playing in theaters near you)

Arrival (USA: Denis Villeneuve, 2016)

Doctor Strange (USA: Scott Derrickson, 2016)

The Edge of Seventeen (USA: Kelly Fremon Craig, 2016)

Elle (France/Germany/Belgium: Paul Verhoeven, 2016) - opens 2/24 at the Kentucky Theater

Fences (USA: Denzel Washington, 2016)

Get Out (USA: Jordan Peele, 2017)

Hidden Figures (USA: Theodore Melfi, 2016)

I Am Not Your Negro (France/USA: Raoul Peck, 2016) - opens 2/24 at the KY Theater

Khaidi No. 150 (India: Vinayak V.V., 2017)

La La Land (USA: Damien Chazelle, 2016)

The Lego Batman Movie (Denmark/USA: Chris McKay, 2017)

Lion (Australia/USA/UK: Garth Davis, 2016)

Loving (UK/USA: Jeff Nichols, 2016)

Manchester by the Sea (USA: Kenneth Lonergan, 2016)

Moonlight (USA: Barry Jenkins, 2016)

Nocturnal Animals (USA: Tom Ford, 2016)

Raees (India: Rahul Dholakia, 2016)

Silence (Mexico/Taiwan/USA: Martin Scorsese, 2016)

Split (USA: M. Night Shymalan, 2016)

Films you can respond to that are on DVD/streaming and that relate to our course films (I will put related subject/film at the end of the film):

The Gospel of St. Matthew (Italy/France: Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) - Religion

The Last Temptation of Christ (USA/Canada: Martin Scorsese, 1988) - Religion

Moolaade (Senegal/Burkina Faso/Morocco/Tunisia/Cameroon/France: Ousmane Sembene, 2004) - Religion

Vision (Germany/France: Margarethe von Trotta, 2009) - Religion