THREE WEEKS --- THREE CREDITS
PRE-SESSION SUMMER 2012
English 439/839 - "MODERN AND CLASSIC EUROPEAN CINEMA”
Time Days Sec Faculty Call#
0930-1220p MTWRF 301 Dixon 2777/2786
Screening / lectures meet May 14 - June 1 in RVB 123 at the Ross Theatre.
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Please check out the attached poster for English 439/839; three weeks, three credits, and a superb sampling of recent and classic European cinema, including:
The Films of Alice Guy, the first filmmaker in cinema history;
Battleship Potemkin, one of the most brilliant examples of film editing in cinema history;
the German Expressionist horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari;
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s An Andalusian Dog, a landmark of early avant-garde cinema;
Dali and Buñuel's L'Âge d'Or, a stylized and shocking Surrealist film which was banned for more than 50 years;
Jean Renoir’s classic crime drama Le Crime de Monsieur Lange;
Open City, the first Neorealist film, shot in wartime Italy under the noses of the Nazis;
Persona, Ingmar Bergman’s bizarre tale of two women locked in mortal psychological combat;
François Truffaut’s tale of troubled adolescence, The 400 Blows;
A Matter of Life and Death, a film so dazzling in its visuals that it requires more than one viewing to absorb fully;
The Merchant of Four Seasons by Rainer Werner Fassbinder;
Diva, an impressionistic look at the life of an opera star in 1980s France;
Cinema Paradiso, one of the greatest love letters to the cinema ever filmed, and winner of innumerable awards;
Pedro Almodóvar’s comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a stylish, sophisticated farce;
Emir Kustirica’s wartime absurdist epic Underground, an unpredictable black comedy;
and Thomas Vinterberg’s Celebration, shot entirely on digital video, a domestic comedy drama using shock-cut visuals to tell the film’s story
and much more!
These are some of the greatest films ever made; here’s your chance to immerse yourself in a crash course in European cinema history.