From the pioneers of film to post-digital trailblazers, the aim of this challenge is to take you on an adventure through the history of film.
This challenge has been designed to help you navigate through important periods of film, film movements, major auteurs and national cinemas.
This challenge will take place across the 52 weeks of 2017. Each week will address a new topic that will provide signposts through this journey. The goal is to watch at least one film each week that will expand your experience of film.
The syllabus can be found below. Each weeks topic will be accompanied by a link to a list of suggested films but feel free to choose any film that you feel…
From the pioneers of film to post-digital trailblazers, the aim of this challenge is to take you on an adventure through the history of film.
This challenge has been designed to help you navigate through important periods of film, film movements, major auteurs and national cinemas.
This challenge will take place across the 52 weeks of 2017. Each week will address a new topic that will provide signposts through this journey. The goal is to watch at least one film each week that will expand your experience of film.
The syllabus can be found below. Each weeks topic will be accompanied by a link to a list of suggested films but feel free to choose any film that you feel meets that week's subject.See the List notes for weekly dates and tags.
In retrospect these topics are not as diverse as I would have liked. There are plenty of topics that have also been excluded just to keep within the one topic per week timeframe. I hope to be more inclusive and include some of the neglected topics in future challenges.
RULES:
1. Each week you must watch the film that you have selected for that week's topic;
2. After having watched each film you must write and post a review of at least five sentences;
3. Ensure that you tag each film with the challenge tag FSDO2017. Also make sure you tag it with the weekly tag, for example, FSDO2017Week1. This will enable other students to find your reviews;
4. Read other student's reviews and share comments with one another.
Please Note:
- All of these rules are voluntary;
- If you are unable to watch the listed movie in any given week you can skip it or watch it later;
- Feel free to make up your own topics for any given week if you dont like the existing topic or if you are unable to gain access to a movie that fits it;
- Feel free to change any movie on your list at any time. The availability of a film often makes this necessary;
- If you don't like writing reviews you don't have to. Maybe comment on other people's reviews so you can still be a part of the dialogue (although you don't have to do that either).
- Ultimately, the only rule is to have fun!
The Weekly Topics
Week 1 - Auteurs - Pioneers of Film - Lumiere Brothers (Filmography), George Melies
(Filmography) or Alice Guy-Blache (Filmography)
Week 2 - Genre - Comedy - Silent Comedy Icons - Examples
Week 3 - Movement - German Expressionism (1920-1927) - Examples
Week 4 - Genre - Action - Swashbuckler - Examples
Week 5 - Movement - Russian Montage (1923-1934) - Examples
Week 6 - Genre - Romance - Screw Ball Comedy - Examples
Week 7 - Movement - French Poetic Realism (1930-1945) - Examples
Week 8 - Genre - Crime - Pre-Code Gangster Movie - Examples
Week 9 - Auteurs - Alfred Hitchcock - Filmography
Week 10 - Movement - Italian Neo-Realism (1943-1954) - Examples
Week 11 - Genre - Crime - Film Noir - Examples
Week 12 - Auteurs - Orson Welles - Filmography
Week 13 - Movement - French New Wave (1959-1970) - Examples
Week 14 - Genre - Sci-Fi - 1950s Cold War Film - Examples
Week 15 - Auteurs - John Ford - Filmography
Week 16 - Movement - Kitchen Sink British Realism (1959-1969) - Examples
Week 17 - Genre - Historical - Swords and Sandals - Examples
Week 18 - Auteurs - Michelangelo Antonioni - Filmography
Week 19 - Movement - Cinema Novo (1960-1972) - Examples
Week 20 - Genre - Western - Spaghetti Westerns - Examples
Week 21 - Auteurs - Ingmar Bergman - Filmography
Week 22 - Movement - Czech New Wave (1962-1972) - Examples
Week 23 - Auteurs - Douglas Sirk - Filmography
Week 24 - Movement - New German Cinema (1962-1982) - Examples
Week 25 - Auteurs - Stanley Kubrick - Filmography
Week 26 - Movement - New Hollywood (1968-1980) - Examples
Week 27 - Auteurs - Robert Altman - Filmography
Week 28 - Movement - Australian New Wave & Ozploitation (1971-1989) - Examples
Week 29 - Genre - Documentary - Cinema Verite - Examples
Week 30 - Auteurs - Woody Allen - Filmography
Week 31 - Movement - Japanese New Wave (1955-1975) - Examples
Week 32 - Genre - Action - Blaxploitation - Examples
Week 33 - Auteurs - Federico Fellini - Filmography
Week 34 - Movement - No Wave (1976-1985) - Examples
Week 35 - Genre - Erotic - 70s Arthouse - Examples
Week 36 - Auteurs - Andrei Tarkovsky - Filmography
Week 37 - Movement - Hong Kong New Wave (1979-1989) - Examples
Week 38 - Genre - Western - Post-50s Revisionist Western - Examples
Week 39 - Auteurs - Luis Bunuel - Filmography
Week 40 - Movement - Cinema Du Look (1980-1991) - Examples
Week 41 - Genre - War - Vietnam - Examples
Week 42 - Auteurs - Akira Kurosawa - Filmography
Week 43 - Movement - Iranian New Wave (1987-2005) - Examples
Week 44 - Auteurs - David Lynch - Filmography
Week 45 - Movement - Tawain New Wave (1990-2010) - Examples
Week 46 - Genre - Japanese Anime - Examples
Week 47 - Movement - Nuevo Cine Mexicano (1992-Current) - Examples
Week 48 - Genre - 90s Rom-Coms - Examples
Week 49 - Auteurs - Coen Brothers - Ethan's Filmography & Joel's Filmography
Week 50 - Movement - Dogme 95 (1995-2005) - Examples
Week 51 - Genre - Post-Modern - Black Comedy - Examples
Week 52 - Auteurs - Michael Haneke - Filmography
Extra Credit
There have been some excellent ideas suggested since the syllabus was set. They have not all been able to be included within the 52 weeks already set. They are listed here for anyone who wants to do some additional homework.
Extra Credit 53 - Cinematographer - James Wong Howe - Filmography
Extra Credit 54 - Cinematographer - Vittorio Storaro - Filmography
Extra Credit 55 - Actor - Isabelle Huppert - Filmography
Extra Credit 56 - Actor - Max Von Sydow - Filmography
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