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

Week 06: Rear Window [1954]

LISA

 What's a logical explanation for a 

woman taking a trip with no luggage? 

JEFF

That she didn't know she was going on a 

trip and where she was going she wouldn't 

need any luggage. 

LISA

Exactly.

Week 06: Rear Window (1954)

Tu 07.09

• Read: TAB p. 1 – 102
• Class: Reading discussion; Multimedia Presentations
• Due: SYNTHESIS ESSAY—FINAL DRAFT; OSR 04: 1990 – Present

Th 07.11

• Read: TAB p. 103 – 167
• Class: Writers’ workshop; Reading discussion; Watch—Excerpts from The Celluloid Closet (Epstein/Friedman, 1995 USA)
• Due: RESEARCH PAPER—UP TO APPROX. PG. 4 (BRING 2 COPIES)

Upcoming:

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. 6 (BRING 2 COPIES)