"We rob banks."
One of my classes this semester, The History of Film: 1950-Present, has turned out to be quite excellent. I had the companion course first semester (Beginnings - 1950), but that class was often quite boring, with a lot of lectures and a few good movies. But this semester, we get to watch a movie every week, and my professor has picked some wonderful movies. I have loved every movie we have watched so far. Most of them I had already seen, but I love the fact that this is what I am studying in grad school:
- High Noon
- On the Waterfront
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Vertigo*
- Seven Days in May
- The Graduate*
- Bonnie and Clyde*
- Easy Rider
*If you have not seen these three movies in particular, you must see them. Brilliant, important, unforgettable.
And now the class is moving into the 70s, and I am very excited to see where we go from here.
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That class sounds really great.
Here are my 70's favorites:
1970- Airport
1971- A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection
1972- The Godfather, Cabaret, Deliverance
1973- The Sting, A Tango in Paris
1974- Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, The Godfather Part II
1975- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Nashville, Jaws
1976- Network, Taxi Driver, All the Presidents Men
1977- Annie Hall, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1978- The Deer Hunter, Superman, The Wiz
1979- Apocalypse Now, La Cage aux Folles, Alien, Norma Rae
I love Easy Rider.
Jake, I don't know what movies we will be watching, but I'm sure they will be many of the ones on your list.
JV - We just watched Easy Rider a couple of days ago, and that was one I had not seen before. It was not what I expected, but I did love the ending.
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vertigo is such a fantastic movie
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