Screening on Tuesday, February 28th

Three Women, Robert Altman, 1977

Screening on Tuesday, February 21st

Man With A Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov

Blog Post V for next Saturday:

Please discuss something you saw in early French Surrealist Cinema that you feel influenced Mulholland Drive. Again, be sure to include images as closely as they can relate.

Also:
Please read:
SURREALIST CINEMA
The Film Theory of Antonin Artaud

Also, in preparation for later discussions about future screenings:
Please define the following in a way that might be useful for a discussion of cinema:
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Metaphor
Allegory

Screening on Tuesday, February 14th:

French Surrealist Cinema:

LA COQUILLE ET LE CLERGYMAN (1926)
Written by Antonin Artaud, and directed by Germaine Dulac

EMAK-BAKIA (1928)
directed by Man Ray

L'ETOILE DE MER (1928)
Written by Robert Desnos and directed by Man Ray

CHIEN ANDALOU (1929)
Written by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, and directed by Luis Buñuel
L'AGE D'OR (1930)
Written by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, and directed by Luis Buñuel



American Surrealist Cinema:

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943)
Maya Deren
AT LAND (1944)
Maya Deren

THE SHORT (SURREALIST) FILMS OF JOSEPH CORNELL

Screening on Tuesday, February 7th:

Mulholland Drive, 2001, written and directed by David Lynch