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films and video texts i've taught

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It probably shouldn't have come as a surprise, but I didn't expect to see that I have taught so many films and video texts, compared to written ones -- especially since I was never trained to do them. I began teaching film before DVDs and even VCRs, when I had to order 16mm reels from New Yorker Films. For what it's worth, I never showed films in class -- class time was reserved for discussion.

  1. 12 (Mikhalkov)

  2. 12 Monkeys (Gilliam)

  3. 1984 (Radford)

  4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)

  5. 8 ½ (Fellini)

  6. 9 ½ Weeks (Lyne)

  7. A Foreign Affair (Wilder)

  8. A Man Escaped (Bresson)

  9. A Question of Silence (Gorris)

  10. A Scanner Darkly (Linklater)

  11. A Separation (Farhadi)

  12. A Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)

  13. Adam’s Rib (Cukor)

  14. Aelita (Protazanov)

  15. Akira (Otomo)

  16. Alice (Svankmajer)

  17. Alien (Scott)

  18. Alien 3 (Fincher)

  19. Alien Resurrection (Jeunet)

  20. Aliens (Cameron)

  21. Amores Perro (Gonzalez Inarritu)

  22. Amphibian Man (Kazanski)

  23. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)

  24. Annie Hall (Allen)

  25. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

  26. Apocalypse Now Redux (Coppola)

  27. Armageddon (Bay)

  28. Avalon (Oshii)

  29. Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara)

  30. Ball of Fire (Hawks)

  31. Basic Instinct (Verhoeven)

  32. Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)

  33. Bedwin Hacker (El Fani)

  34. Blackboards (Makhmalbaf)

  35. Blade Runner (Scott)

  36. Blue Velvet (Lynch)

  37. Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (Lubitsch)

  38. Born in Flames (Borden)

  39. Bridesmaids (Feig)

  40. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks)

  41. Brother from Another Planet (Sayles)

  42. Burden of Dreams (Herzog)

  43. Cabin in the Sky (Minelli)

  44. Casablanca (Curtiz)

  45. Chinatown (Polanski)

  46. Citizen Kane (Welles)

  47. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg)

  48. Contact (Zemeckis)

  49. Cosmic Journey [Kosmicheskiy Reys] (Zhuralvlev)

  50. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)

  51. Dark City (Proyas)

  52. Dark Victory (Goulding)

  53. Deep Cover (Duke)

  54. Deep Impact (Leder)

  55. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)

  56. Devils at the Doorstep (Jiang Wen)

  57. District 9 (Blonkamp)

  58. Do the Right Thing (Lee)

  59. Double Indemnity (Wilder)

  60. Double Wedding (1937) (Thorpe)

  61. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)

  62. Duck Soup (McCarey)

  63. Earth (Dovzhenko)

  64. Earth Girls Are Easy (Temple)

  65. Earthquake (Robson)

  66. Easy Living (Leisen)

  67. Endhiran (Shankar)

  68. Even the Rain (Bollain)

  69. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Anderson)

  70. Follow the Fleet (Sandrich)

  71. Forbidden Planet (Wilcox)

  72. Ghost in the Shell (Oshii)

  73. Giant (Stevens)

  74. Gojira (Honda)

  75. Golddiggers of 1933 (LeRoy/Berkeley)

  76. Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini)

  77. Grand Hotel (Goulding)

  78. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)

  79. Hail the Conquering Hero (Sturges)

  80. Hard to Be A God (German)

  81. Heat (Mann)

  82. Heaven Can Wait (Lubitsch)

  83. Her (Jonze)

  84. Hipsters (Todorovskiy)

  85. His Girl Friday (Hawks)

  86. Holiday (Cukor)

  87. Homicide: Life on Street, seasons 1-6 (Simon)

  88. I Married a Monster from Outer Space (Fowler)

  89. I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur)

  90. I Was a Male War Bride (Hawks)

  91. In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong)

  92. Independence Day (Emmerich)

  93. Infernal Affairs (Lau/Mak)

  94. Iphigenia (Cacoyannis)

  95. It Happened One Night (Capra)

  96. It’s A Wonderful Life (Capra)

  97. Kill Bill (Tarantino)

  98. King Kong (Cooper)

  99. King Solomon's Mines [film] (Bennett-Marton)

  100. Koyanisqaatsi (Reggio)

  101. Kung Fu Hustle (Chow)

  102. L.A. Story (Jackson)

  103. La Antena (Sapir)

  104. La Jetée (Marker)

  105. Last Temptation of Christ (Kazantzakis)

  106. Lathe of Heaven (Le Guin)

  107. Leviathan (Zhyagintsev)

  108. Libeled Lady (Conway)

  109. Little Otik (Svankmajer)

  110. Locke (Knight)

  111. Lost Horizon (Capra)

  112. Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian)

  113. Lumière and Company (multi)

  114. Lysistrata (Aristophanes)

  115. M.A.S.H. (Altman)

  116. Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (Miller)

  117. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)

  118. Man Facing Southeast (Subiela)

  119. Man of Aran (Flaherty)

  120. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov)

  121. Meet John Doe (Capra)

  122. Memento (Noland)

  123. Memories of Murder (Bong)

  124. Menace II Society (Hughes)

  125. Metropolis (Lang)

  126. Metropolis (Rintaro)

  127. Midnight (Leisen)

  128. Miracle at Morgan’s Creek (Sturges)

  129. Miracle Mile (De Jarnatt)

  130. Mon Oncle (Tati)

  131. Moolaadé (Sembene)

  132. Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann)

  133. Mountain Patrol (Chuan Lu)

  134. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (Capra)

  135. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Capra)

  136. Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon)

  137. Much Ado About Nothing (Whedon)

  138. Münchhausen (Gilliam)

  139. Mutluluk (Bliss) (Oguz)

  140. My Left Foot (Sheridan)

  141. My Man Godfrey (LaCava)

  142. Nanook of the North (Flaherty)

  143. Nashville (Altman)

  144. Natural Born Killers (Stone)

  145. Night Catches Us (Hamilton)

  146. Ninotchka (Lubitsch)

  147. Now Voyager (Rapper)

  148. Omkara (Bhardwaj)

  149. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Ceylan)

  150. Othello (Parker)

  151. Out of the Inkwell (Fleischer)

  152. Paprika (Kon)

  153. Payday (Chaplin)

  154. Pi (Aronofsky)

  155. Poetry (Chang dong lee)

  156. Prime Suspect 1 (LaPlante)

  157. Pulp Fiction (Tarantino)

  158. Punch Drunk Love (Anderson)

  159. Ran (Kurosawa)

  160. Rashomon (Kurosawa)

  161. Reservoir Dogs (Tarantino)

  162. Rififi (Dassin)

  163. Robocop (Verhoeven)

  164. Run Lola Run (Tykver)

  165. Sans- Souci (Marker)

  166. Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg)

  167. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright)

  168. Sense8, season 1 (Wachowskis)

  169. Seven (Fincher)

  170. Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)

  171. Sexy Beast (Glazer)

  172. Shall We Dance (Sandrich)

  173. Shaolin Soccer (Chow)

  174. Shin Godzilla (Anno)

  175. Silent Star (Maetzig)

  176. Sleep Dealer (Rivera)

  177. Slings and Arrows, seasons 1-3 (Wellington)

  178. Snowpiercer (Bong)

  179. Solaris (Tarkovsky)

  180. Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Shinji Aramaki)

  181. Stanley and Livingstone (King)

  182. Starship Troopers (Verhoeven)

  183. Steamboat BIll, Jr. (Keaton)

  184. Still Life (Zhang Ke Jia)

  185. Strange Days (Bigelow)

  186. Sullivan’s Travels (Sturges)

  187. Terminator 1 (Cameron)

  188. Terminator 2 (Cameron)

  189. The Abyss (Cameron)

  190. The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer)

  191. The Awful Truth (McCarey)

  192. The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (Reis)

  193. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)

  194. The Bear (Annaud)

  195. The Big Chill (Zemeckis)

  196. The Big Lebowski (Coans)

  197. The Cell (Singh)

  198. The Congress (Folman)

  199. The Conversation (Coppola)

  200. The Corner (Simon)

  201. The Dark Crystal (Henson-Oz)

  202. The Day After (Meyer)

  203. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Guest)

  204. The Day the Earth Stood Still (Wise)

  205. The Five Obstructions (vonTrier)

  206. The Fly (Cronenberg)

  207. The Freshman (Lloyd)

  208. The General (Keaton)

  209. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)

  210. The Great Dictator (Chaplin)

  211. The Great McGinty (Sturges)

  212. The Host (Bong)

  213. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)

  214. The Killers (Siodmak)

  215. The Killing [Forbrydelsen], season 1 (Sveistrup)

  216. The Last Wave (Weir)

  217. The Little Foxes (Wyler)

  218. The Matrix (Wachowskis)

  219. The Merry Widow (Lubitsch)

  220. The Mountains of the Moon (Rafelson)

  221. The Palm Beach Story (Sturges)

  222. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)

  223. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)

  224. The Postman (aka Burning Patience) (Radford)

  225. The Rapture (Tolkin)

  226. The Shining (Kubrick)

  227. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)

  228. The Story of the Weeping Camel (Falorni)

  229. The Ten Commandments (DeMille)

  230. The Tale of the Fox (Starewicz)

  231. The Thin Man (Van Dyke)

  232. The Thing (Carpenter)

  233. The Thing from Another World (Nynby)

  234. The Usual Suspects (Singer)

  235. The Wind Journeys (Guerra)

  236. The Wire, seasons 1, 3, 4 (Simon)

  237. Thin Blue Line (Morris)

  238. Thin Red Line (Malik)

  239. Things to Come (Menzies)

  240. Three Idiots (Hirani)

  241. Three Times (Hsiao Hsien Hu)

  242. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)

  243. Tokyo Story (Ozu)

  244. Top Hat (Sandrich)

  245. Travelers and Magicians (Norbu)

  246. Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl)

  247. Trollhunter (Ovredahl)

  248. Trouble in Paradise (Lubitsch)

  249. Tuya’s Marriage (Wang)

  250. Twelfth Night (Nunn)

  251. Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi)

  252. Under the Bombs (Aractingi)

  253. Under the Skin (Glazer)

  254. Unfaithfully Yours (Sturges)

  255. Videodrome (Cronenberg)

  256. What Time Is It There? (Ming-liang Tsai)

  257. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Zemeckis)

  258. Wings of Desire (Wenders)

  259. Winter Sleepers (Tykver)

  260. Winter’s Bone (Granik)

  261. Yi-yi (Yang)

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