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IB 1 SUMMER & ASSIGNMENTS

WHAT WILL NEED • You will need a drive with at least 1TB of storage by August 12th • A “” or similar account to view movies. • A journal/notebook (prefer a notebook that you can bring to class). • You must keep journal entry responses for the films you watch. • Access to internet and Google Drive • Mr. Regan’s email: o [email protected]

REQUIREMENTS (to be completed by August 4th 2017 This is worth 10 exam grades.

1) You must choose 10 films from prescribed listings of films. 8 of the films must come from the IB 1 Folder in Google Drive and two films should be films that were released this summer 2017.

2) Google Drive and two films released this summer 2017. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxBSae544FQrMWRXWndZX3JXOGc

3) You should watch as many films as possible over summer break.

4) You must complete the Film Packets for each film you view. ------BOOKS TO BUY AND READ:

• Understanding Movies (Cheapest Edition you can find) [Paperback ] • Film Directing: by Shot – by Steven D. Katz • Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting – by Syd Field (optional, reference) • The Poetics, by Aristotle (optional, reference) SELECTION OF FILMS

Early Cinema Hitchcock *Birth of a Nation (1915) – D.W. Griffith Notorious (1946) The General (1926) – North by Northwest (1959) *City Lights (1931) – Psycho (1960) *Modern Times (1936) – Charlie Chaplin *Strangers on a train (1951) The (1925) – Charlie Chaplin The Birds (1963) *Nosferatu (1922) – F.W. Murnau * (1954) *The cabinet of Dr. Calligari (1920) – Rober Wiene *Rope (1948) *The Jazz Singer (1929) – Alan Crosland Dial M for murder (1954) Gone with the Wind (1939) – The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Victor Fleming Documentary Living Russia/The Man with a camera (1929) – Dziga *Nanook of the north (1922) – Robert Flaherty Vertov (1935) – (1925) – SM Eisenstein Don’t look back (1967) – D.A. Pennebaker *The Cove (2009) – Louie Psihoyos Classic Cinema, , and Epics * (2008) – James Marsh (1941) – Orson Wells (2005) – All about Eve (1950) – Joseph Mankiewicz *The Thin Blue Line (1988) – Errol Morris *Imitation of life (1959) – Exit through the gift shop (2010)- Banksy All that heaven allows (1955) – Douglas Sirk * (2006) – Davis Casablanca (1942) – Guggenheim Mildred Pierce (1945) – Michael Curtiz Bowling for (2002) – Maltese Falcon (1941) – Hoop Dreams (1994) – Steve James *Sunset Blvd. (1950) – Shoah (1985) – * (1959) - Billy Wilder The Big Sleep (1946) – Movie By Director Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – * (1976) – It’s a wonderful life (1946) – (1980) – Martin Scorsese *It Happened one night (1934) – Frank Capra Persona – and the Sundance Kid (1969) – George * (1957) – Ingmar Bergman Roy Hill Contempt – Jean-Luc Godard Giant (1956) – *Breathless (1960) – Jean-Luc Godard Bullitt (1968) – Peter Yates – Francis Ford The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) – *The Godfather Part II – *Bonnie and Clyde (1967) – * (1979) – Francis Ford Coppola (1954) - (1974) – Francis Ford Coppola A streetcar names desire (1951) – Elia Kazan The 400 Blows (1959) – Francois Truffaut (1955) – Elia Kazan * (1948) – Sound of music (1965) – *Touch of Evil (1958) –

Westerns and Spaghetti Westerns Manhattan (1979) – Shane (1953) - George Stevens Hall (1977) – Woody Allen * (1939) – Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying (1952) – and Love the Bomb (1964) – * – John Ford (1982) – *The (1992) – Thelma and Louise (1991) – Ridley Scott (1964) – * (1950) – Once upon a time in the west (1968) – Sergio Leone A woman under the influence (1974) – (1994) – *Chinatown (1974) – *Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Roman Polanski *Schindler’s List (1993) – The Color Purple (1985) – Steven Spielberg Ed Wood (1994) – Lucia (1968) – Humberto Solas Fargo (1996) – Joel Coen Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) – Tomas (199) – Gutierrez Alea *Se7en (1995) – David Fincher Irreversible (2002) – Gaspar Noe (contains explicit Platoon (1986) – adult language and content) * (1967) – Akira (1988) – Katsuhiro Otomo Night of the Living Dead (1968) – George A. Das Boot (1982) – Wolfgang Petersen Romero Play Time – * (1994) – Frank Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) – Hector Babenco Darabont * (1955) – * (1995) – Three Colors: Blue, White, and Red (three different Scarface (1983) – films with these titles) (1993;1994, and 1994) – *Blowout (1981) – Brian de Palma Krzysztof Kieslowski *Memento (2001) – * (1988) – American History X (1998) – Tony Kaye *Yesterday (2004) – Darrell Roodt Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (2004) – Moolaade (2004) – Ousmane Sembene Russian Ark (2002) – American Beauty (1999) – *Central Station (1998) – *Brazil (1985)- Gilliam *The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) – Walter Salles 12 Monkeys (1995) – Nine (2000) – Fabian Bielinsky Stand by me (1986) – Battle of Algiers (1966) – *Requiem for a dream (2000) – Darren *Like water for chocolate (1992) – Alfonso Arau Aronofsky *Pan’s (2006) – Black Swan (2010) – *Spirited Away (2002) – *The Thing (1982) – *Leon: The Professional (1994) – Halloween (1979) – John Carpenter * (2008) – *Children of Men (2006) – Alfonso Cuaron Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle *Moon (2009) – *Whale Rider (2003) – Niki Caro Big (1988) – Penny Marshall Awakenings (1990) – Penny Marshall *Being (1999) – Adaptation (2002) – Spike Jonze *Easy Rider (1969) – Summer 2017 Releases (Choose any two) (1989) – http://www.imdb.com/list/ls071989582/ *Bamboozled (2000) – Spike Lee

Foreign Cinema Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa *M (1931) – *Run Lola Run (1999) – *Amelie (Fabuleux destin d’Amelie Poulain) (2001) – Jean Pierre Jeunet *Amores Perros (2001) – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Babel (2006) – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Chunking Express (1994) – Kar Wai Wong * (1999) - Pedro Almodovar

Talk to (2002) – Pedro Almodovar *La Haine (1995) - Matthieu Kassovitz *City of God (2003) - Fernando Meirelles Let the Right One In (2008) by Oldboy (2005) – Chanwook Park Devdas (2002) – Sanjay Leela Bhansali Monsoon Wedding (2001) – * Recommended *Sin Nombre (2009) – Cary Fukunaga