Film Genres

Screening: 100 Years of Horror, El Espinazo del diablo, Lady in White

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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/

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

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_exercis⁥s.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

Breaker' Morant (1980)

History of Australian film and television

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