Saturday, July 14, 2007
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
FILM GENRES
http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html
HORROR FILMS
http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms.html
http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms2.html
http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms3.html
http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms4.html
Introducing the Horror Genre
http://www.teachit.co.uk/pdf/genrergl2.pdf
Screening: 100 Years of Horror, El Espinazo del diablo, Lady in White
A new marketing device is now online for Fox Searchlight's upcoming release
of the hit Russian fantasy horror film NOCHNOY DOZOR (NIGHT WATCH)
You can now watch the entire movie... in about 3-4 minutes.
http://www.lightordark.co.uk/
Understanding the Horror Genre
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Top 25 Horror Films
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FANTASY FILMS
Peter Jackson's "King Kong"
Extra Credit Assignment
Students go to the following web site:
http://www.kongisking.net/kong2005/
Watch Director Peter Jackson’s
King Kong Production Diaries at the link
listed above or rent and watch on DVD.
http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/DisplayMoreMovieProductDetails.action?movieID=155304&channel=Movies&subChannel=sub#Cast
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BMSUJK/qid=1136234726/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-3008189-3795051?n=507846&s=dvd&v=glance
Also, rent Cooper & Schoedsack's 1933 "King Kong" and watch the film.
Write a Two page essay comparing the original King Kong to Peter
Jackson’s new version which is in theaters 12/14/2005 (Make sure
your essay contains information about the production of both films)
King Kong (1933)
http://www.filmsite.org/kingk.htmlhttp://www2.netdoor.com/~campbab/Obie.html
http://www.fullyarticulated.com/KongBoomer.html
http://www.filmsite.org/fantasyfilms.html
Top Rated:
http://www.imdb.com/chart/fantasy
Science Fiction Films
TOP SCI FI FILMS
12 Monkeys (1995)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Abyss (1989)
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
Altered States (1980)
Back to the Future (1985)
Blade Runner (1982)
Brazil (1985)
Children of Men (2006)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Core
Dark City (1998)
Dark Star (1974)
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Death Race 2000 (1975)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Fifth Element
Flash Gordon (1980)
Frank Herbert's Dune (TV Miniseries)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Independence Day (Single Disc Widescreen Edition)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Island
Jurassic Park (1993)
Last Starfighter
Matrix (1999)
Men in Black (1997)
Metropolis (1926)
Minority Report (2002)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Predator (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Repo Man (1984)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Road Warrior (1981)
Robocop (1987)
Serenity (2005)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Starship Troopers
Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
They Live (1988)
Thing (1982)
Time After Time (1979)
Total Recall (1990)
Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Westworld (1973)
http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html
Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Good & Evil on the Big Screen
http://jmarchfilmstudiesgoodevil.blogspot.com/
WESTERNS
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/infocus.htm
Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West” & The Searchers
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/searchers.pdf
The Making of the West: Chapter 11 - American Cinema & Culture
Overview
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/infocus/western.htm
30 Great Westerns
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue10/infocus/
InternetExercises:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter11/internet_exercises.html
Web Links:
http://highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter11/web_links.html
Crime and Gangster Films
http://www.filmsite.org/crimefilms.html
Films for Study: The Godfather, The Untouchables,
Miller’s Crossing, Little Caesar (1930) ,Public Enemy (1931)
The Godfather
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http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/godfather.pdf
Film Noir
Films: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Chinatown (1974), Blade Runner (1982), Blue Velvet (1986),
The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity (1944), (1946), Dark City (1988), Memento (2000), Sin City(2004)
Overview of the Film Noir genre
http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html
Billy Wilder: About Film Noir
Samuel Fuller: About Film Noir
10 Shades of Noir
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/infocus.htm
Casablanca
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/casablanca.pdf
The Maltese Falcon
http://www.filmsite.org/malt.html
http://www.ardecol.ac-grenoble.fr/english/falteach/falt-03.htm
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/non_fiction/e008.html
Chinatown
http://www.filmsite.org/chin.html
Film Noir: Somewhere in the Night Chapter 10 - American Cinema & Culture
Internet Exercises:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter10/internet_exerciss.html
Web Links:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter10/web_links.html
War and Anti-War Films
http://www.filmsite.org/warfilms.html
Anti-War Film: Platoon & Apocalypse Now
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/Platoon.pdf
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/apocalypse.pdf
Apocalypse Now and the End of the 70's
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/features/coppola/default-yes.htm
War and Cinema: Chapter 9 - American Cinema & Culture
Internet Exercises:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter9/internet_exercises.html
Web Links:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter9/web_links.html
COMEDY FILMS
http://www.filmsite.org/comedyfilms.html
Raising Arizona & Some Like It Hot
American Comedy: Chapter 8- American Cinema & Culture
Internet Exercises:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter8/internet_exercises.html
Web Links:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter8/web_links.html
MUSICALS
http://www.filmsite.org/musicalfilms.html
Musicals: Chapter 7 - American Cinema & Culture
Internet Exercises:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter7/internet_exercises.html
Web Links:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter7/web_links.html
DRAMAS
Citizen Kane & Amadeus
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/citkane.pdf
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/Amadeus.pdf
Melodrama
Chapter 6 - American Cinema & Culture
Coming-of-Age Films:
http://www.travelin-tigers.com/zhs/filmgrad.htm
Internet Exercises:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter6/internet_exercises.html
Web Links:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072886277/student_view0/chapter6/web_links.html
Social Problem Films
On the Waterfront (1954),
John Sayles' Matewan(1987)and
Sidney Lumet's Network (1976)
http://www.filmsite.org/onth.html
http://spot.pcc.edu/~mdembrow/matewan.htm
http://www.cccyclery.com/matewan/still1.htm
http://www.matewan.com/History/battle2.htm
http://jmarzofilmstudiesgenresnetwork.blogspot.com/
http://www.filmsite.org/netw.html
http://www.dga.org/news/v28_1/indie_lumet-network.php3
SUPERHERO/COMIC BOOK ADAPTATIONS
http://www.efavata.com/CBM/
http://www.comics2film.com/
http://www.superherohype.com/
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=comicbookadaptation.htm
REMAKES
Gus Van Sant's remake of
“Psycho” vs Alfred Hitchcock’s original
Psycho: Film Study Guide
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/Psycho.pdf
10 reasons why the Psycho remake failed:
http://www.angelfire.com/movies/oc/tirades/psychofail.htmlD
Description and reviews of Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Psycho-1084964/
The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue09/infocus.htm
Documentary
Bowling for Columbine,Hearts of Darkness
and Werner Herzog's GrizzlyMan
Talking with Michael Moore
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue06/features/mmoore.htm
Bowling for Columbine
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/BFC.pdf
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/heartsofD.html
GrizzlyMan
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4778191
http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jndfg20/website/grizzlyman.htm
ANIMATED FILMS
Anime – Spirited Away
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/SpiritedAway.pdf
Foreign Film
Amélie by Jean-PierreJeunet
http://www.filmeducation.org/filmlib/Amelie.pdf
Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall
http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/downfall/intro.html
Breaker McElroy
Aussie Bush Poet "Granger Cooley"
Breaker' Morant (1980)
History of Australian film and television
http://australianscreen.com.au/education/media/history-australian-film-and-te/
Films Before 1920
http://www.filmsite.org/pre20sintro.html
Films of the 20's
http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html
Films of the 30's
http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html
Films of the 40's
http://www.filmsite.org/40sintro.html
Films of the 50's
http://www.filmsite.org/50sintro.html
Films of the 60's
http://www.filmsite.org/60sintro.html
Films of the 70's
http://www.filmsite.org/70sintro.html
Films of the 80's
http://www.filmsite.org/80sintro.html
http://www.filmsite.org/90sintro.html