One Semester in Film Studies
By: Manny Lage
Films screened for my Film classes at UGA.
Professors: Richard Neupert, Christopher Sieving, Anjte Ascheid
Classes: Film History II (1945 – Current), The Horror Film (Histories and Theories), Film Theory
So the semester has come to an end with means no more screenings or updates on this list… :( [Last screening December 6th)
Here are my top ten favorite films I watched in classes this semester:
1. Print Generation (16mm projection)
2. Tout va bien (digital projection)
3. Arnulf Rainer (16mm projection)
4. Earth (digital projection)
5. The Gold Rush (digital projection)
6. Broken Blossoms (digital projection)
7. Sky Blue Water Light Sign (16mm projection)
8. Sans Soleil (digital projection)
9. You, the Living (digital projection)
10. Marnie (digital projection)
Ranked:
1. Broken Blossoms (1919, Griffith), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Arnulf Rainer (1960, Kubelka), 16mm projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– The Gold Rush (1925, Chaplin), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Earth (1930, Dovzhenko), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– The Conformist (1970, Bertolucci), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Miracle in Milan (1951, De Sica), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Gigi (1958, Minnelli), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979, Fassbinder), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Sans soleil (1983, Marker), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Tout va bien (1972, Dziga Vertov Group), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– You, The Living (2007, Andersson), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Vagabond (1985, Varda), digital projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Print Generation (1973-4, J.J. Murphy), 16mm projection, 5 out of 5 stars.
– Sky Blue Water Light Sign (1972, J.J. Murphy), 16mm projection, 5 out of 5 stars. (Not in database)
2. Jules and Jim (1961, Truffaut), digital projection, 4.85 stars out of 5 stars.
– La bête humaine (1938, Renoir), digital projection, 4.85 out of 5 stars.
– The Shining (1980, Kubrick), digital projection, 4.85 out of 5 stars.
3. Rome Open City (1945, Rossellini), digital projection, 4.75 out of 5 stars.
– The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, Ford), digital projection, 4.75 out of 5 stars.
– Marnie (1964, Hitchcock), digital projection, 4.75 out of 5 stars.
– Orlando (1992, Potter), digital projection, 4.75 out of 5 stars.
4. Psycho (1960, Hitchcock), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Cat People (1942, Tourneur), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Raging Bull (1980, Scorsese), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Polanski), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Deep Red (1975, Argento), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Grey Gardens (1975, Albert and David Maysles), 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– My Beautiful Laundrette (1985, Frears), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Eyes Without a Face (1959, Franju), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Shivers (1970, Cronenberg), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Mildred Pierce (1945, Curtiz), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Cure (1997, Kurosawa), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
– Hollywood Shuffle (1987, Townsend), digital projection, 4.70 out of 5 stars.
5. Out of the Past (1947, Tourneur), digital projection, 4.5 out of 5 stars.
– Roman Holiday (1953, Wyler), digital projection, 4.5 out of 5 stars.
– Peeping Tom (1960, Powell), digital projection, 4.5 out of 5 stars.
– Cape Fear (1962, Thompson), digital projection, 4.5 out of 5 stars.
6. Dracula (1931, Browning), digital projection, 4 out of 5 stars.
– A Nightmare (1896, Méliès), digital projection, 4 out of 5 stars.
– Halloween (1978, Carpenter), digital projection, 4 out of 5 stars.
– Alien (1979, Scott), digital projection, 4 out of 5 stars.
– The Exorcist (1973, Friedkin), digital projection, 4 out of 5 stars.
– Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Siegel), digital projection, 4 out of 5 stars
7. Mickey’s Choo-Choo (1929, Werks), digital projection, 3.5 out of 5 stars.
– Jaws (1975, Spielberg), digital projection, 3.5 out of 5 stars.
– Wild Wife (1954, McKimson), 16mm projection, 3.5 out of 5 stars. (Not in database)
– A Jasper Derby “Puppetoon” (Don’t remember the exact name), 16mm projection, 3.5 out of 5 stars. (Not in database)
Film screened outside of class:
Onibaba (1964)
Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
Happiness (1998)
For research papers:
In My Skin (2002)
Trouble Every Day (2001)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
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01J. J. Murphy
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02D.W. Griffith
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03Peter Kubelka
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04Charlie Chaplin
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05Aleksandr Dovzhenko
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06Bernardo Bertolucci
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07Vittorio De Sica
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08Vincente Minnelli
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09Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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10Chris Marker
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11Jean-Luc Godard
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12Roy Andersson
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13Agnès Varda
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14Jean Renoir
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15François Truffaut
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16Stanley Kubrick
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17Roberto Rossellini
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18John Ford
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19Alfred Hitchcock
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20Sally Potter
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21Alfred Hitchcock
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22Jacques Tourneur
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23Martin Scorsese
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24Roman Polanski
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25Dario Argento
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26Albert Maysles
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27Stephen Frears
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28Georges Franju
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29David Cronenberg
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30Michael Curtiz
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31Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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32Robert Townsend
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33Jacques Tourneur
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34William Wyler
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35Michael Powell
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36J. Lee Thompson
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37Tod Browning
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38Georges Méliès
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39John Carpenter
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40Ridley Scott
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41William Friedkin
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42Don Siegel
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43Steven Spielberg
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44Ub Iwerks
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45Kaneto Shindô
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46Tsui Hark
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47Todd Solondz
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48Marina de Van
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49Claire Denis
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50Rainer Werner Fassbinder