High School Film Class, Semester 1

List creator: mcitrin Created on: February 12, 2005 - 6:30 PM PST Description: This was the first time I offered this class, and it was harder than I thought to limit half a century of films to slightly over a dozen titles. I'd love to see what others are teaching, too.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Landmarks of Early Film vol. 1 (1994)
Edison, Lumiere Brothers, Melies "A Trip to the Moon," and Porter's "The Great Train Robbery"
	Nosferatu (1922)			Not Rated
German Expressionism, Early Horror (Murnau)
	Metropolis (The Complete Restored Edition) (1927)			Not Rated
German Expressionism, Early Sci-Fi (Lang)
	Modern Times (Criterion) (1936)
(not entirely) Silent Comedy (Chaplin)
	Duck Soup (The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection) (1933)			Not Rated
Classic Comedy, Slapstick
	Scarface (1932)			Not Rated
The Gangster Picture (Hawks)
	Double Indemnity (1944)
Film Noir (Wilder)
	Out of the Past (1947)			Not Rated
Another Film Noir. This one we saw at Film Forum for a class trip. (We also most recently saw Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados, though that's not available on Green Cine.)
	Casablanca (Special Edition) (1942)
Classic Romance (Curtiz)
	The Bicycle Thief (1948)			Not Rated
Italian Neorealism (De Sica)
	Tokyo Story (Criterion Collection) (1953)
Japanese Family Melodrama (Ozu)
	Imitation of Life (1959)			Not Rated
American Family Melodrama (Sirk)
	The Searchers (1956)
The Western (Ford)
	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Musical
	The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: The 400 Blows / Antoine and Colette (Criterion Collection) (1959)
The French New Wave (Truffaut)