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Films from Eric's Cinema Classes

I'm a cinema student at a California community college, and I've watched a good deal of movies in my classes. This is a list of those movies.

Cinema 100: The Art of Cinema

 

Every semester, a different theme for Cinema 100 is chosen. The semester I took it, the theme was artists and the artistic process. (Fall semester 2004)

 
1. State and Main (2000)
2. Day For Night (1973)
3. The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
4. Pollock (2000)
5. Irma Vep (1996)
6. Blowup (1966)
7. American Splendor (2003)
8. Swimming Pool (2003)
9. Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003)
10. The Company (2003)
11. Croupier (1998)
12. Together (2002)
13. Frida (2002)

Cinema 102: History of Film to 1945

 

Part one of a two-part history curriculum. (Fall semester 2004)

 
1. A Corner In Wheat (1909)
2. Rescued By Rover (1905)
3. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
4. Easy Street (1917)
5. The Music Box (1932)
6. The Gold Rush (1925)
7. The General (1927)
8. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
9. The Last Laugh (1924)
10. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
11. Blackmail (1929)
12. Top Hat (1935)
13. Un Chien Andalou (1929)
14. The Rules of the Game (1939)
15. Stagecoach (1939)
16. The Lady Eve (1941)
17. Citizen Kane (1941)

Cinema 103: History of Film 1945 to Present

 

Part two of a two-part history curriculum. (Spring semester 2005)

 
1. Singin' In the Rain (1952)
2. High Noon (1952)
3. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
4. La Strada (1954)
5. The 400 Blows (1959)
6. The Ladykillers (1955)
7. The Seventh Seal (1957)
8. Rashomon (1950)
9. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
10. The Graduate (1967)
11. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
12. The Color of Paradise (1999)
13. Star Wars (1977)
14. Toy Story (1995)

Cinema 105: Film Subjects (The Films of Alfred Hitchcock)

 

The specific subject for Cinema 105 is different every semester; the semester I took it, the subject was Alfred Hitchcock. (Spring semester 2005)

 
1. The 39 Steps (1935)
2. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
3. Rebecca (1940)
4. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
5. Notorious (1946)
6. Strangers On a Train (1951)
7. Rear Window (1954)
8. Vertigo (1958)
9. North By Northwest (1959)
10. Psycho (1960)
11. The Birds (1963)

Cinema 120: Film Criticism

 

This class was vaguely broken up into units. One was "genre", and the genre depicted was noir. Another was "auteur", and the auteur explored was Woody Allen. (Fall semester 2005)

 
1. Enchanted (2000)
2. Amelie (2001)
3. L.A. Confidential (1997)
4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)
5. Double Indemnity (1944)
6. A History of Violence (2005)
7. Manhattan (1979)
8. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
9. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
10. Japanese Story (2003)
11. Born Into Brothels (2004)

Cinema 115: Creative Writing for Television and Cinema

 

While more a production course than a study course, this class nevertheless had films to watch in terms of screenwriting. All but Snow White were films that featured screenwriters as major characters. (Spring semester 2006)

 
1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
2. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
3. The Player (1992)
4. State and Main (2000)
5. Adaptation (2002)

Cinema 122: Identity in American Film

 

The course discusses issues of personal and social identity in recent American film, covering topics of race, class gender, sexual orientation, and age. (Spring semester 2011)

 
1. The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
2. Machete (2010)
3. Good Hair (2009)
4. Winter's Bone (2010)
5. Up In the Air (2009)
6. Away We Go (2009)
7. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
8. Thirteen (2003)
9. The Kids Are All Right (2010)
10. Up (2009)
11. Avatar (2009)