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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

cinema school: do eye have to make a feature???

everybody loves an origin story with an ensemble.  
do you know what conote denotes?
a thousand words to explain the price or what a picture is worth

Topics!:
email writing
Writing assignments (3 possibilities)
Books to read
Movies to Watch
Purchases to make
jokes about lists



writing assignment
assassinations of the 60s
10 minutes to four hours or more

buy a camera, computer, video editing software, a so-called boom mic system and register for a youtube or vimeo account or make your own website.

list of movies to see. must see more than 47% of the list. or just follow the oscar competition very closely one year

5 broken cameras
casablanca
the hurt locker
The 400 blows
The 7th seal
persona
husbands
a women under the influence
annie hall
citizen kane
roger and me
hugo
jfk
vertigo
skyfall

tv list (same rule 47% or more of the list must be watched or again follow the emmy race very closely one time)

sports night
the west wing
the civil war by ken burns
northern exposure
mad men (must read blog posts about apparent anachronisms)
treme
the wire


quotes (or paraphrases involving m. streep) to contemplate
"...every line means 7 different things..." m. streep on a pr interview for the hours
"..we display the whole alphabet unlike m. streep who just goes from a to b..."k.hepburn on m. streep


highly recommended to at least take a tour through the following books:
verbal advantage
what i really want to do on set is
complete works of Shakespeare
the epic history of art in America
4 dada suicides
one of syd field's how to write a screenplay books
the brothers Karamazov
the situationist anthology
by any means necessary (about making malcom x starring d. washington)
watchmen (graphic novel)

also see (at least )1 out of each group of 10

group a
total eclipse
true romance
easy rider
rear window (Hitchcock)
Amadeus
hilary and jackie
natural born killers
the man who shot liberty valance
the Maltese falcon
12 angry men

group b
short cuts
american graffitti
moneyball
the social network
a few good men
bull durham
harold and maude
the godfather 1-3

group c
wordplay
Topper
the lady vanishes
singing in the rain
jules and jim
touch of evil
sound city
happy gilmore
romeo and juliet
the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the rings or the Hobbit but I missed it in the theater so you know maybe it's actually better than the fellowship

group d
the gleaners and I
a guy debor film
carilto's way
rushmore
gummo
being john malkovich
beasts of the southern wild
breathless
platoon
the devil's double

group e
Emma
Elizabeth
tree of life
forrest gump
flight
the curious case of Benjamin button
strangers on a train
bringing up baby
moonrise kingdom
boogie knights

group f
batman begins
the dark night
the dark night rises
inception
die hard
a clockwork orange
the good the bad and the ugly
the matrix
star wars episode 4
Lawrence of Arabia

(added 5/7/13)
Group G
After School
Peter and Vandy
Slacker
Walking and Talking
Hannah Takes the Stairs
Hoop Dreams
The Piano Teacher
The Shinning (Kubrick)
Weekend (Godard)
The Order (M. Barney)

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