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Film 101: Schedule and Screenings
Week 1: Films About Making Films
--Living in Oblivion by Tom DiCillo
--State and Main by David Mamet
Week 2: Genre
--Stagecoach by John Ford
--The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks
Week 3: Auteur
--Persona by Ingmar Bergman
--Breathless by Jean Luc Godard
Week 4: Non-Fiction Film
--Crumb by Terry Zwigoff
--Dog Star Man by Stan Brakhage
Week 5: New York
--Mean Streets by Martin Scorcese (may be replaced by a Spike Lee joint)
--Manhattan by Woody Allen

Required Reading

Film Art: An Introduction (sixth edition) by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson

Well, NYU it ain't.

And there will be no napping; the only movie on this list I've actually seen is Crumb. The only one I've ever particularly wanted to see was Manhattan. I've actually been meaning to see it for years and something always interrupts me. Apparently, my mother was watching this movie in the summer of
1979 and went into false labour.

I have decided that, with the exception of some friends of mine, film students and film professors are pretentious noodleheads. I'm basing this purely on the way my professor pronounced certain words, and the fact that only one other person in the class besides me laughed when Steve Buscemi freaked out in Living in Oblivion.

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