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”
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
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:
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]
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”
Gary Morris: “Raging and Flaming: Jack Smith in Retrospect”
Tuesday, Jan. 25: Dogme [A Cinema of Reform]
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:
Shahin Parhami: “Iranian Cinema: Before the Revolution”
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.
