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Screening Film Lists

By Jess
I have been cleaning out my box of college notes, and wanted to preserve the Film Lists from my various Media Study classes.

Non-Fiction Film, Fall 1999

Best Boy, 1979, Ira Wohl
Lumiere Brothers' First Films, Thierry Fremaux, ed
Nanook of the North (restored), 1922, Robert Flaherty
Trimph of the Will, 1936, Leni Riefenstahl
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, 1994, Ray Muller
Olympia, 1938, Diving Sequence, Leni Riefenstahl
Excerpts from early social documentaries:
Drifters, 1929, John Grierson
Housing Problems, 1935, Edgar Anstey & Arthur Elton
The Plow that Broke the Plains, 1936, Pare Lorentz
The River, 1937, Pare Lorentz
Night Mail, 1936, Watt & Wright
Night and Fog, 1955, Alain Resnais
Salesman, 1968, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin
Don't Look Back, 1967, D.A. Pennebaker
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, 1963, Drew Associates (Robert Drew & Richard Leacock)
Blood of the Beasts, 1949, Georges Franju
Titicut Follies, 1967, Frederick Wiseman
High School, 1968, Frederick Wiseman
Hearts and Minds, 1974, Peter Davis
American Family, 1973, excerpts from original show
American Family Revisited, 1983, Susan Raymond
No Lies, 1972, Mitchell W. Block
David Holzman's Diary, 1967, Jim McBride
Drums of Winter, 1988, Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling
At the Time of Whaling, excerpts
Sherman's March: An Improbable Quest for Love, 1986, Ross McElwee
The Body Beautiful, 1991, Ngozi Onwurah
Sink or Swim, 1990, Su Friedrich
Brother's Keeper, 1992, Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky
Who Killed Vincent Chin, 1988, Christine Choy and Renee Tajima
The Thin Blue Line, 1987, Errol Morris
Tongues Untied, 1989, Marlon Riggs
Nobody's Business, 1996, Alan Berliner
a.k.a. Don Bonus, 1995, Spencer Nakasako and Sokley

Watch Intimate Stranger sometime.

Basic Filmmaking, Fall 1996
Trip to the Moon, 1902, Melies
Castro Street, 1965, Baillie
The Great Train Robbert, 1903, Porter
The Lonedale Operator, 1910, Griffith
Andalusian Dog, Bunuel
Meshes of the Afternoon, Deren
Man with a Movie Camera, 1929, Vertov
The Kid, 1921, Chaplin
Triumph of the Will, 1934, Riefenstahl
The Passion of Jeanne D'Arc, 1928, Dreyer
Daybreak Express, 1958, Pennebaker
Adebar, 1957, Kubelka
Schwechater, 1960, Kubelka
Arnulf Rainer, 1960, Kubelka
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, 1968, Sharits
Geography of the Body, 1955, Maas,
Nettezza Urbana, 1948, Antonioni
To Parcifal, 1963, Baillie
"Odessa Steps" from Battleship Potemkin, 1925, Eisenstein
Earth, 1930, Dovzhenko
Unsere Afrikareise, 1966, Kubelka
Blood of the Beasts, 1949, Franju
Night and Fog, 1955, Resnais
Vampyr, 1931, Dreyer
La Jetee, 1963, Marker

Basic Documentary, Spring 1998
Nobody's Business
Nanook of the North
Man with a Movie Camera
Leni Reifenstahl
The Salesman
Streetwise
David Holzman's Diary
Best Boy
Paris is Burning
Titticut Follies
Spin
Brothers Keeper
Harlan County, USA
Fetishes
Thin Blue Line
Paradise Lost


Electronic Image Analysis, Spring 1998

Looking at Light, 1977-1986
Bill Viola: 
The Reflecting Pool, 1977-79
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat), 1979
Ancient of Days, 1979-1981
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, 1986

Cecelia Condit: Possibly in Michigan, 1983

Distorted Vision, 1980-1983
Tony Oursler, The Loner, 1980
Steina Vasulka, Summer Salt, 1982
Ken Feingold, 5 dim/MIND, 1983

Space, 1980s
Dan Graham, Cube and Cylinder
Chip Lord, Motorist
Woody Vasulka, Art of Memory
Bill Viola, The Space Between the Teeth

Turning on One's Self, 1974-1992
Sadie Benning, If Every Girl Had a Diary, 1990; Me and Rubyfruit, 1989; It Wasn't Love, 1992; Jollies, 1990
A New Year
Living Inside
Martha Rosler, Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained, 1977
Julie Zando, Let's Play Prisoners, 1988; The A Ha! Experience, 1988 -- with Tony Conrad on camera?
Irene Segalove, The Mom Tapes, 1978
Lynda Bengalis, Feminine Sensibility, 1974

Culture and Society, 1984-1992
Julie Tanaka, Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway?
Richard Fung, Chinese Characters, 1986
Make Idemitsu, Yoji, What is Wrong with You?
Paul Wong, Confused, 1984 (excerpt)
France/Tour/Detour/deux/enfants, Jean Luc Godard

Where is Video Art? 1971-1996
Olhar Eletronico. Varela in Xingu
Dennis Oppenheim, 2 Stage Transfer Drawing, 1971
Richard Foreman, Out of the Body Travel, 1976
Michael Smith, The Secret Horror, 1980
Cecelia Condit, Oh, Rapunzel, 1996

Go for it, Mike


Film History
Spring 1998
This was the last semester it was an 8-hr course for 5 credit hours. I had Independent Video from 10-12, and then this class from 12-4, which made for very long Mondays and Wednesdays in the screening room. I slept through most of these films. I recall we would watch most of them once, then a second time, without sound, and Dr. Henderson (who had a terribly droning voice) would narrate the important points. It was grueling.

Apropos de Nice, 1929, Jean Vigo
Zero for Conduct, 1933, Jean Vigo
L'Atalante, 1934, Jean Vigo
A Day in the Country, 1936-46, Jean Renoir
Rules of the Game, 1939, Jean Renoir
M, 1931, Fritz Lang
Meet John Doe, 1941, Frank Capra
Citizen Kane, 1941, Orson Welles
Song of Ceylon, 1935, Basil Wright
Night Mail, 1936, Harry Watt and Basil Wright
The Plow that Broke the Plains, 1936, Pare Lorentz
The River, 1937, Pare Lorentz
Prelude to War, 1942, Frank Capra
The Battle of Midway, 1944, John Ford
Memphis Belle, 1944, William Wyler
Battle of San Pietro, 1944, John Huston
Listen to Britain, 1942, Humphrey Jennings
Diary for Timothy, 1945, Humphrey Jennings
Paisa, 1946, Roberto Rossellini
Nights of Caberia, 1946, Roberto Rossellini
"La Ricotta" from RoGoPag, 1962, Pier Paulo Pasolini
L'Avventura, 1959, Michelangelo Antonioni
Ugetsu Monogatari, 1953, Kenju Mizoguchi (many consider him the greatest director)
The Searchers, 1956, John Ford
Andrei Rublev, 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky
A Man Escaped, 1956, Robert Bresson
Pick up on South Street, Samuel Fuller
Out of the Past, 1947, Jacques Tourneur
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955, Robert Aldrich
La Jette, 1965, Chris Marker
Les Bonnes Femmes, 1959, Claude Chabrol
Les Mistons, 1957, Francois Truffaut
Pierrot le fou, 1965, Jean-luc Godard
"Le nouveau monde" from RoGoPog, 1962, Jean-luc Godard
Vagabond, 1985, Agnes Varda
L'Opera Mouffe, 1958, Agnes Varda
Blood of a Poet, 1930, Jean Cocteau
Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943, Maya Deren
A Study of Choreography for the Camera, 1945, Maya Deren
Fireworks, 1947, Kenneth Anger
Scorpio Rising, 1964, Kenneth Anger
Gulls and Buoys, 1965, Robert Breer
66, 69, and 70, Robert Breer
Castro Street, 1965, Bruce Baillie
Notebook, 1963, Marie Menken
Anticipation of the NIght, 1958, Stan Brakhage
Peter Kubelka: Adebar, 1957; Schwechater, 1950; Arnulf Rainer, 1960; Unsere Afrikareise, 1966
Paul Sharits: T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, 1968; Peace Mandala/End War, 1968
Nostalgia, 1971, Hollis Frampton
Mayhem, 1987, Abigail Child
Happy Mother's Day, 1963, Richard Leacock
You're Nobdy til Somebody Loves You, 1963, D.A. Pennebaker
The Sorrow and the Pity, II, 1970, Marcel Ophuls
Persona, 1966, Ingmar Bergman
The Red and the White, 1967, Miklos Jancso
Elgar, 1962, Ken Russell
Edward II, 1992, Derek Jarman
Sugar Cane Alley, 1984, Euzhan Palcy




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