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