Thank You for a Great Class!

Grades are in.

Enjoy what's left of summer.

I had a nice time and I hope you did, too.

Keep in touch.

-D

Movie New 08.07.13

• Expendables 3: Ford replaces Willis, who is called lazy and greedy by Stallone (Hollywood Reporter)
• George Clooney: New York hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb is ruining Hollywood (Yahoo! News)
• Related: Sony resists pressure from Loeb to split Sony (Forbes)
• $190 million: The loss Disney is taking on The Lone Ranger (Digital Spy)
  
• New short film blends the superhero and horror genres (Geek League of America)
• Rumor mill: The six actors reportedly up for the new Batman (UPROXX)

Week 10: Road to Perdition [2002]

MAGUIRE

I'm something of a rarity. 

Week 10: Road to Perdition (2002)

Tu 08.06

• Class: FINAL EXAM

Th 08.08

• Class: End-of-class review; Multimedia presentations

Movie News 08.01.13

• X-Men: Days of Future Past viral campaign begins (Dark Horizons)
• China to determine whether a Pacific Rim sequel happens (Chicago Tribune)
• Presenting 15 movie poster clichés (imgur)
• Keepin' it real: Star Wars Episode VII will feature less CGI, more practical effects (Film School Rejects)
• Roman Polanski's rape victim tells her side of the story in new book (Yahoo! New)
• Revealed: How Hollywood appeased the Nazis (TheWeek)

Final Exam Materials

Here are the articles required for your final exam next week. It is highly recommended you have printed copies for the exam. You will also find the rubric that will be used to grade your essay. 

Article 1
Article 2

ENG 1B  Final Essay Rubric

Week 09: Blade Runner [1982]

DECKARD

(Narrating) 

The report read: "Routine retirement 

of a replicant." That didn't make me 

feel any better about shooting a woman 

in the back. 

Week 09: Blade Runner (1982)

Tu 07.30

• Class: Multimedia presentation; Research paper prep

Th 08.01

• Class: Final exam prep; Research paper presentations; Final exam prep
• Due: RESEARCH PAPER (FINAL DRAFT)

Week 10: Road to Perdition (2002)
Tu 08.06

• Class: FINAL EXAM

Th 08.08

• Class: End-of-class review; Multimedia presentations

Movie News 07.24.13

• Warner Bros. and DC Comics at Comic-Con: Man of Steel's 2015 sequel will feature Batman (NBC News)
• The frenzy begins: Who could (and should) play the new Batman? (Crave)
• The stunning trailer for Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity debuts (Gizmodo)
• With no sex, nudity, or profanity, how The Conjuring got an R rating for being too scary (Atlantic)
• R.I.P.D. latest DOA offering and what the future holds for summer releases (Hollywood Reporter)
• Tech: The new Kaleidescape Cinema One's 4-terabyte server can store up to 100 Blu-ray DVDs (USA Today)

Week 08: Double Indemnity [1944]

PHYLLIS

We're both rotten.

WALTER

 Only you're a little 

more rotten.

Week 08: Double Indemnity (1944) 

Tu 07.23

• Class: EXPOSITORY ESSAY; Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations

Th 07.25

• Class: Writers’ workshop; Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations
• Due: RESEARCH PAPER UP TO APPROX. PG. 8 (BRING 2 COPIES); OSR 06: FOREIGN FILM

Upcoming:

Week 09: Blade Runner (1982)

Tu 07.30

• Class: Field trip (Details TBA)

Th 08.01

• Class: Final exam prep; Research paper presentations; Final exam prep
• Due: RESEARCH PAPER (FINAL DRAFT)

Week 10: Road to Perdition (2002)
Tu 08.06

• Class: FINAL EXAM

Th 08.08

• Class: End-of-class review; Multimedia presentations 

Movie News 07.16.13

• Blackfish promises to do for orcas what The Cove did for dolphins (Indiewire)
• Hot at Comic-Con 2013: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Amazing Spiderman 2, Ender's Game (IGN)
• Lionsgate responds to the proposed boycott of Ender's Game: "we obviously do not agree with the personal views of Orson Scott Card" (CNN)
• Spiderman's Andrew Garfield: "What if MJ is a dude?" (Entertainment Weekly)
• What happened to the G-rated film? (Boston Globe)
• Artist maps our favorite movies (Wired)

Outside Screening Reflection 06: Foreign Films

For your final OSR, please watch and write about a film from the list below:

• À bout de souffle (Breathless) (Godard, 1960 France)
• Akira (Ôtomo, 1988 Japan)
• Biutifil (González Iñárritu, Mexico/Spain 2010)
• Cidade de Deus (City of God) (Lins, Brazil 2002)
• Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) (Arau, 1992 Mexico)
• Et Dieu … Créa La Femme (And God Created Woman) (Vadim, 1956 France)
• Europa Europa (Holland, 1990 Germany/France)
• Les quatre cents coups (400 Blows) (Truffaut, 1959 France)
• Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008 Sweden)
• Maarakat madinat al Jazaer (The Battle of Algiers) (Pontecorvo, 1966 Italy/Algiers)
• Mùi du du xanh (The Scent of Green Papaya) (Hung, 1993 Vietnam/France)
• Paradise Now (Abu-Assad, 2005 Palestine)
• Rabbit-Proof Fence (Noyce, 2002 Australia)
• A Separation (Farhadi, 2011 Iran)
• Tsotsi (Hood, 2005 South Africa/UK)
• Whale Rider (Caro, 2002 New Zealand/Germany)
• Volver (Almodovar, 2006 Spain)
• Y tu mamá también (Cuarón, 2001 Mexico)
• Yesterday (Roodt, 2004 South Africa)
• Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (You Will Not Get to Live Life Twice) (Akhtar, 2011 India)

Requirements:

• MLA Style
• One full page in length

Due: Th 07.25

Week 07: What's Up, Doc? [1972]

JUDY

I know I'm different, but from now on 

I'm going to try and be the same. 

HOWARD

The same as what? 

JUDY

The same as people who aren't 

different.

Week 07: What’s Up, Doc? (1972)

Tu 07.16

• Read: TAB p. 168 – 274; eR—“First Pro Athlete is Out, So Where are Gay Movie Stars?" (Huffington Post), “Homophobia in Hollywood: Why Gay Movie Stars Still Can't Come Out of the Closet " (Independent)
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations
• Due: OSR 05: DOCUMENTARY FILM

Th 07.18

• Read: TAB p. 275 – 344; eR—“As the Closet Door Opens Wider, Where are the Gay Movie Stars?” (TheWrap), “Why Gay Actors Going Public Matters” (Huffington Post)
• Class: Writers’ workshop; Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations
• Due: RESEARCH PAPER—UP TO APPROX. PG. 8 (BRING 2 COPIES)

Week 08: Double Indemnity (1944)

Tu 07.23

• Class: EXPOSITORY ESSAY; Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations
• Due: ANNOTATED WORKS CITED

Th 07.25

• Class: Writers’ workshop; Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations
• Due: RESEARCH PAPER UP TO APPROX. PG. 10 (BRING 2 COPIES); OSR 06: FOREIGN FILM

Movie News 07.09.13

• Group urges fans to skip Ender's Game because of Orson Scott Card's extreme anti-gay views (Huffington Post)
• ... Card responds, asks that fans be "tolerant" (Wired)
• Punk'd: Boyfriend recreates puppet from The Ring to prank his girlfriend (Entertainment Weekly)
• How Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars will rescue Disney (Variety)
• Tour Harry Potter's Diagon Alley via Google Street View (Huffington Post)
• Too soon?: Writers option the rights to the Boston Marathon bombing (Yahoo! News)

Outside Screening Reflection 05: Documentaries

For your fifth OSR, please watch and write about a film from the list below:

1. 4 Little Girls (Lee, 1997 USA)
2. Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kid (Brisk/Kauffman, 2004 USA/India)
3. Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002 USA)
4. Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003 USA)
5. The Cove (Psihoyos, 2009 USA)
6. Crumb (Zwigof, 1994 USA)
7. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father (Kuenne, 2008 USA)
8. Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005 USA)
9. Hoop Dreams (James, 1994 USA)
10. Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010 USA)
11. Jesus Camp (Grady/Ewing, 2006 USA)
12. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Sundberg/Stern, 2010 USA)
13. Lake of Fire (Kaye, 2006 USA)
14. Man on Wire (Marsh, 2008 UK)
15. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929 Russia)
16. King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Gordon, 2007 USA)
17. The Endless Summer (Brown, 1966 USA)
18. The Thin Blue Line (Morris, 1988 USA)
19. Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl, 1935 Germany)
20. When We Were Kings (Gast, 1997 USA) 

Requirements:

• MLA Style
• One full page in length

Due: Tu 07.16