Outsiders

Screening Schedule [Scoville, 7PM]

Wednesday, Jan. 5: Jean-Luc Godard: “Weekend” [1967; 103 min.]
Monday, Jan. 10: John Cassavetes: “Husbands” [1970; 131 min.]
Wednesday, Jan. 12: Spike Lee: “She's Gotta Have It” [1986; 88 min.]
Monday, Jan. 17: Jim Jarmusch: “Stranger Than Paradise” [1983; 89 min.]
Wednesday, Jan. 19: John Waters: “Pink Flamingos” [1972; 93 min.]
Monday, Jan. 24: Harmonie Korine: “Gummo” [1997; 89 min.]
Wednesday, Jan. 26: Abbas Kiarostami: “Close-Up” [“Nema-ye Nazdik”; 1990; 100 min.]
Monday, Jan. 31: No screening; Exam tomorrow
Wednesday, Feb. 2: David Lynch: “Eraserhead” [1977; 89 min.]
Monday, Feb. 7: Daren Aronofsky: “Pi”
Wednesday, Feb. 9: Jenny Olson: “The Joy of Life” [2004; 65 min.]
Monday, Feb. 14: Lars Von Trier: “Dogville” [2003; 135 min.]
Wednesday, Feb. 16: Jonathan Caouette: “Tarnation” [2003; 88 min.]
Monday, Feb. 21: Wong Kar Wai: “TBA”
Wednesday, Feb. 23: “TBA”

Websites

Notes on Presentations [PDF]

Notes on moving PowerPoint and files between Macs and PCs

Machinema [Jason Acosta & Chris Young]

Darren Aronofsky [Tim Snyder & Niko Tonks]

Bertrand Blier [Ariane Goudefroy]

David Lynch [Neil Anderson, Sarah Barrow & Mia Ruth]

Future Cinema [August Brown]

Tarnation & Capturing the Friedmans [Taylor Coughlan]

Russ Meyer [Chase Golding]

Whit Stillman [Chloe Hamilton]

Werner Herzog [Eliot Johnson & Martha Polk]

Richard Linklater: Roman Kashuba

Wong Kar Wai [Lucas Koski]

Lars Von Trier [Samuel Koenigsberg & Samuel Lowry]

Robert Rodriguez [Sean McGee]

Tarkovsky: [Andrew Schrage & Jonathan White]

Darren Aronofsky [Tim Snyder & Niko Tonks]

Fellini [Peter Sowinski]

Faith Akin [Jennifer Kochan]

Japanese Animation [Matt Swanson]

Jim Jarmusch [Win Hornig]

Tuesday, Jan. 4: Stan Brakhage: Closed-eye Vision

Screening in class:
Mothlight [1963; 3 min.]
Window Water Baby Moving [1959; 12 min.]
Loving [2001]

Assignment:
Fred Camper: Stan Brakhage [Text accompanying Criterion's definitive 2-disc set.]
Still Frames from Brakhage Films
P. Adams Sitney on Stan Brakhage
Notes and commentary from Prof. Schott [pdf]

Reference:
Filmography

Thursday, Jan. 6: Jean-Luc Godard: New Language > New Society

Assignment:
Godard for Beginners [Brief introductory overview.]
Comprehensive Godard site
Godard Overview
Godard

Wheeler Dixon: On "Weekend" [From "The Films of Jean-Luc Godard"] PDF

Idea Map from class.

Tuesday, Jan. 11: John Cassavetes: The Raw Truth

In class:
"Shadows" [1959, portion]
"Woman Under the Influence" [1974, portion]
"John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything To Express It All" [biopic; portion]]

Assignment:

John Cassavetes by Jason Wood [Brief introductory overview.]

Prof. Raymond Carney's guide to Cassevetes' films.

The online film journal "Senses of Cinema" has a thing for Cassavetes:
The Cinematic Life of Emotions: John Cassavetes: George Kouvaros interviewed by Needeya Islam [Senses of Cinema]
John Cassavetes: Inventor of Forms by Adrian Martin [Senses of Cinema]
Impromptu Entertainment: Performances Modes in Cassavetes' Films by Pamela Robertson Wojcik [Senses of Cinema]

Cassavetes' classic Playboy, 1971 Interview: [Page scans of original article available online.]

In addition to several books about Cassavetes, film scholar Ray Carney has a major, if somewhat immodest, website rich with Cassavetes materials: The Cassavetes Pages.

Resources:

Method Acting Procedures
Ray Carney: acting vs. playing in Cassavetes' theory of acting

Class:

Idea Map from Class

Thursday, Jan. 13: In Class Screening: Stan Brakhage Profile

Professor Schott will be in Washington at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tuesday, Jan. 18: Emerging American “Indie” Scene

Assignment: John Pierson: “Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across A Decade of Independent Cinema” [pp. 24-83 available as a PDF through Gould Library E-Reserves for this class; paper copies on CR.]

Inside skinny on the production and distribution of these two key indie originals by their unbuttoned producer John Pierson.

Colin Lawlor: “Jim Jarmusch: A [Post]Modern Interpretation”

Jim Jarmusch: “Some Notes on Stranger Than Paradise” [1984]

Presentation from class.

Thursday, Jan. 20: Exposing the Self: Jack Smith & John Waters

Screening in class:

Marlon Riggs: “Tongues Untied” [Portion; link to article]

Jack Smith: “Flaming Creatures” [Portion]

Reading:

Gary Morris: “Pink Flamingos”

Production Notes on “Pink Flamingos”

Jack Smith Filmography

Gary Morris: “Raging and Flaming: Jack Smith in Retrospect”

Susan Sontag on “Camp” Sensibility

Presentation from Class

Tuesday, Jan. 25: Dogme [A Cinema of Reform]

Showstoppers | Mike Kelley Talks with “Gummo's” Harmony Korine Harmony Korine by Fergus Grealy [Senses of Cinema] Dogme 95 [Official Site] Eric Schlosser: Dogme/Dogma, Or Live Cinema [Bright Lights Film Journal] Gabriel Giralt: “Whatever Happened to Reality: Dogme and the Reality of Fiction” [Kinema] Shari Roman: “Digital Babylon: Hollywood, Indiewood & Dogme 95” [pp. 42-63; available in Gould e-Reserves as PDF] Materials from class. And more.

Thursday, Jan. 27: Iranian Cinema

Brief overview of Kiarostami: “Abbas Kiarostami”

Ziba Mir-Hosseini: “Iranian Cinema: Art, Society and the State”

Familiarize yourself with this excellent resource: “Iranian Cinema” | Research Guide from the British Film Institute [PDF]

Reference:

Iranian Cinema Index

Shahin Parhami: “Iranian Cinema: Before the Revolution”

Materials from class.

Tuesday, Feb. 1: Mid-Term Exam

Full class period for written exam.

Thursday, Feb. 3: David Lynch [Anderson, Barrow & Ruth] and Machinema [Acosta and Young]

Tuesday, Feb. 8: Darren Aronofsky [Snyder and Tonks] and Robert Rodriguez [McGee]

Thursday, Feb. 10: Guest: Critic Rob Nelson

Please read or review before class:

Rob Nelson: “Lessons of Darkness” [Article in the “Village Voice” on this year's Sundance]

Rob Nelson: “Extreme Sundance” [Article in “City Pages” on this year's Sundance]

Get Real Festival: Indie Documentary Film Fest curated by Rob Nelson.

Tuesday, Feb. 15: Lars Von Trier & Werner Herzog

Thursday, Feb. 17: Whit Stillman and “Tarnation” & “Capturing the Friedmans”

Tuesday, Feb. 22: Wong Kar Wai & Future Cinema

Thursday, Feb. 24: Faith Akin & Bertrand Blier

Tuesday, March 1: Jim Jarmusch & Fellini

Thursday, March 3: Japanese Experimental Animation & Tarkovsky

Tuesday, Mar. 8: Richard Linklater & Russ Meyer

Date: Final Exam