Special Screening: Fight Club (1999)
Nov 20th, Monday, 4:30PM, RM131. The film was directed by David Fincher , and stars Brad Pitt , Edward Norton , and Helena Bonham Carter .
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plan for Week 7-8
WEEK 7 / November 17 th UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE EXAM/no class (but you may want to make use of it to start the readings for Week 8) CLASSICAL/POST-CLASSICAL NARRATIVE WEEK 8/ November 24 th Lecture & Discussion Required Readings: Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin. 2010. “Narrative Form”, Film Art: an Introduction (10th Edition), University Of Wisconsin Press, 72-110 [click HERE to download] NOTE: link expires by Nov. 30 Reference Reading: Elsaesser, Thomas & Buckland, Warren. 2002. “Classical/post-classical narrative”, In Studying Contemporary American Films: a Guide to Movie Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic, 26-79. [click HERE to download] NOTE: link expires by Nov. 30 NOTE NOTE: wrong document replaced to download the notes for Week 6/Westing with Realism, click HERE NOTE: link expires by Nov. 17th
film events (to be continued...)
For those who need information on film events!!! For sure I would try to search for free events! Tokyo Filmex Film Festival http://filmex.net/2017/ Kobe Discovery Film Festival http://kobe-eiga.net/kdff/program/2017/11/1144/#pro06 Aichi Art Center's Art Film Festival:FREE, with international works http://www-art.aac.pref.aichi.jp/movie/index.html
Nov 10 What we do in Class
Dear all, Ran here: On Nov 10th's class, we would expect some group discussions on Bazin, and exchange ideas on certain sequences of Citizen Kane. Enjoy the fun!
take home project (THP)
Deadline: December 20th, Wed, 5pm, via email to Ran. Unless emergency happens, no late submission is allowed. There are 2 options for the THP, and please choose ONE from 1.Participate a film screening + Skype Q&A event at NU on December 4 th (Monday), 4:30pm @ Rm 131 . We would show a Chinese independent documentary “Self-Portrait: Born in 47 KM” (selection in the Asian New Currents, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2017). See more from the flyers. Your task : write a 300-word film review for this documentary, format free. Wu Wenguang is a foundational figure of Chinese independent documentary film and co-founder of the Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing. In 2010, Wu launched the multidisciplinary and collaborative Folk Memory Project to document the gathering of oral histories from the rural survivors of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961). In the past six years, the project participants have interviewed 1,220 villagers in 246 villages...
