Semester 1 Film Review

Choose one of a film (one you have not seen before) by one of the following directors:

Richard Ayoade, Spike Lee, P.T. Anderson, Fernando Meirelles, Akira Kurosawa , Quentin Tarantino, Steve McQueen, Jean-Luc Godard , Woody Allen, François Truffaut,  Jim Jarmusch, Roberto Rossellini, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, Jafar Panahi , Sofia Coppola, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Danny Boyle, Robert Rodriguez, Ang Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Chaplin, David Mamet, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang, John Cassavetes, Mike Nichols, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Terrence malick, Ingmar Bergman , Abbas Kiarostami, Gus Van Sant.

Women-Directed Films

WATCH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING MOVIES AND WRITE A REVIEW IN YOUR BLOG. Prepare to Discuss in Class. Go to site for more info on women directors

Blackboards  (Samira Makhmalbaf)
Eve's Bayou (Isabel Coixet)
Europa Europa  (Agnieszka Holland)
I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron)
The Milk of Sorrow  (Claudia Llosa)
Fire  (Deepa Mehta )
High Art  (Lisa Cholodenko)
Gas Food Lodging  (Alison Anders)
My Life Without  (Me Isabel Coixet) 
Middle of Nowhere  (Ava DuVernay)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman)
The Hidden Half  (Tahmineh Milani)
White Material (Claire Denis)
Outrage (Ida Lupino)
The Watermelon Woman  (Cheryl Dunye)
Vagabond  (Agnès Varda)
The Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase)
Orlando (Sally Potter)
Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
Zarin (Shirin Neshat)
Tooba (Shirin Neshat)
You and Me and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)

Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013) 

The Punk Singer (Sini Anderson, 2013)

Bastards (Claire Denis, 2013)

Una Noche (Lucy Mulloy, 2012)

The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield, 2012)

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (Sophie Fiennes, 2012)

The Kids are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010)

Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, 2010)

Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009)

Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt, 2006)

Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)

Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999)

Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999)

Priest (Antonia Bird, 1994)

Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987)

The Color Palette of Film

The Colour Palette of Film from University of Sunderland

Self Portrait Film

Pre-Production:

• Begin Journaling your daily thoughts and experiences while thinking about the events, the places, the persons, or anything elese that has shaped you into who you are today. (Describe memories of meaningful places, relationships, objects or
  experiences.)
• Create a storyboard for a short video self-portrait that visually communicates the personal significance of a place, relationship, object or experience.
• For inspiration watch the film The Beaches of Agnès, a cinematic self-portrait of filmmaker Agnès Varda (an icon in French New Wave films) 

In this delightful memoir, award-winning French filmmaker Agnès Varda (Vagabond, Cléo From 5 to 7) employs all the magic of cinema to juxtapose the real and the imagined, the past and the present, pain and joy. For this 81-year-old artist, memories live through her films. In The Beaches of Agnès, she uses film clips, old photos and gorgeous reenactments to revisit her Belgian youth, association with the French New Wave, marriage to director Jacques Demy (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and the making of her movies. You don’t need to know anything about Varda to enjoy this enchanting glimpse into the treasure chest of her memories.

Examples:
https://vimeo.com/81179752
https://vimeo.com/81326924
https://vimeo.com/1709393
https://vimeo.com/2790928
https://vimeo.com/4038051
https://vimeo.com/35181064
https://vimeo.com/57062858
https://vimeo.com/84835301
https://vimeo.com/84610131
https://vimeo.com/84529656
https://vimeo.com/84644945
https://vimeo.com/83643924
https://vimeo.com/83737133
https://vimeo.com/84910997