THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (2008), Julian Schnabel

Dear All,

Please don't forget to read the (extremely short) excerpts from Walter Murch's In the Blink of an Eye, available on reserve at Elizabeth Dafoe circulation desk, for Tuesday's class. Thanks. 

FAT GIRL (2001), Catherine Breillat

Dear All,

I forgot to mention this afternoon: please don't forget to read, for Tuesday's class, Chapter Eight in Barsam, "Thinking About Movies, Theory, and Meaning," which will help with your upcoming essay. Okay, post away.  

ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Hi all,

Fassbinder's film is a partial remake of Douglas Sirk's 1955 melodrama All That Heaven Allows, a film in fact remade again by Todd Haynes in 2002 as Far From Heaven, starring Julianne Moore. I'll talk about all three films in class, but if you're interested in pursuing this interesting web of connections, Haynes' film is readily available at most video stores. If you have the will and the time over the weekend, you might want to watch it. See you Tuesday,

j.  

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928), CARL DREYER

Hi everyone,

Please remember: for next class please read both Barsam chapter 5 ("Acting") and the three very brief essays by Balasz ("The Close-Up," "The Face of Man") and Barthes ("The Face of Garbo") available on reserve. The incentive is that you won't have to do any reading for the following week.  

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (1964), Jacques Demy

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TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932), Ernst Lubitsch

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STRIKE (1925), Sergei Eisenstein

Feel free to write about a shot, or (as Eisenstein would surely have preferred) a cut, that moved you. Good luck studying for the reading test on Tuesday.