Wednesday, October 21, 2009

21 October 2009 - X Minutes of Film History


Here is the list of clips we have seen and we are going to be seeing.  As you can see we didn't get very far today so next week will be lots of great bits and pieces from film history...  The gray bits are clips I don't have yet.  I will have some by next week but our plate is full regardless.


X minutes of Film History

The Open – The Meaning of Life – Monty Python

Sequenced Still Images
1887 - Eadweard Muybeard-Sequential Still Images-“Animal Locomotion”
            Horse
            Cat
            Women Meeting
            Man
            Woman

Early Short Films
1894 – Glenroy Brothers Comic Boxing – Thomas Edison
1895 – The Gardener – Lumiere Brothers
1896 – The Kiss – Thomas Edison
1897 – Seminary Girls – Thomas Edison

The Evolution of Ben Hur
1899 – Ben Hur – The Play
1907 – Ben Hur – The First Movie
1925 – Ben Hur – The Silent Movie – Fred Niblo
1959 – Ben Hur – The Epic Movie – William Wyler

1902 – The Voyage to the Moon – George Melies
1903 – The Great Train Robbery – Edwin Porter
1905 – The Whole Dam Family – Thomas Edison
1906 – Aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake – American Biograph
1911 – Little Nemo – Winsor McCay

Reliving the Civil War
1915 – Birth of a Nation – DW Griffith
1939 – Gone with the Wind – George Cukor & Victor Fleming

1915 – Charlie Chaplin
1925 – Stachka (Strike) - Sergei Eisenstein

The Odessa Steps
1925 – Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein
1987 – Untouchables – Brian DePalma
1971 – Bananas – Woody Allen

Physical Comedy
1927 – Laurel and Hardy – Hal Roach producer, Leo McCarey supervising director
1933 – Duck Soup – Leo MaCarey with Marx Brothers
1971 – Bananas – Woody Allen
1994 – Ace Ventura – Tom Shadyac with Jim Carrey

Verbal Comedy
1933 – Duck Soup – Marx Brothers
1971 – Bananas – Woody Allen
1992 – My Cousin Vinny – Jonathan Lynn with Joe Pesci & Marisa Tomei

The Mad Scientist and Visions of the Future
1927 – Metropolis – Fritz Lang
1931 – Frankenstein – James Whale
1974 – Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks
1982 – Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (produced with Run Run Shaw)
1977 – Star Wars: Episode IV

Romantic Comedy
1934 – It Happened One Night – Frank Capra with Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert
1995 – French Kiss – Lawrence Kasdan
1999 – Notting Hill - Roger Michelle with Julie Roberts & Hugh Grant

Princess Power
1937 – Snow White –David Hand Supervising Director
2007 – Enchanted – Kevin Lima

Movie Musicals
1939 – The Wizard of Oz – Victor Fleming & King Vidor(Kansas)
1952 – Singing in the Rain – Stanley Donen with Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor
1979 – The Life of Brian – Monty Python’s Flying Circus
2001 – Moulin Rouge – Baz Luhrmann
2007 – Hairspray – Adam Shankman

Great Lines
1939 – Gone with the Wind – George Cukor & Victor Fleming
1971 – Dirty Harry – Don Siegel with Clint Eastwood
1975 – Jaws – Steven Spielberg with Roy Scheider
1976 – Outlaw Josey Wales – Clint Eastwood
1980 – The Shining – Stanley Kubrick with Jack Nicholson
1987 – Predator – John McTiernan with Arnold Schwarzenegger

True Classics
1941 – Citizen Kane – Orson Welles
1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life – Frank Capra with Jimmy Stewart & Donna Reed
2003 – Bruce Almighty – Tom Shadyac with Jim Carrey
            Bert & Ernie
1979 – Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola with Robert Duvall
1981 – Das Boot – Wolfgang Petersen


The Master
1954 – Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa
1960 – The Magnificent Seven – John Sturges
1966 – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Sergio Leone
1957 – Throne of Blood – Akira Kurosawa
1989 – Henry V – Kenneth Brannagh
1999 – Titus – Julie Taymor

Paprazzi
1960 – La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini
1999 – Notting Hill – Roger Michelle with Julie Roberts & Hugh Grant
2002 – Deeds – Steven Brill with Adam Sandler and John McEnroe

1960 – Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock

The Bonds
1962 – Bond: Sean Connery
1967 – Bond: David Niven
1969 – Bond: George Lazenby
1979 – Bond: Roger Moore
1987 – Bond: Timothy Dalton
2002 – Bond: Pierce Brosnan
2006 – Bond: Daniel Craig

Venus emerging from the sea
1962 – Bond: Ursula Andress
2002 – Bond: Hallie Berrie
2006 – Bond: Daniel Craig

Wong Fei Hung
1991 – Once Upon A Time in China – Tsui Hark with Jet Li
1992 – Once Upon A Time in China – Tsui Hark with Jet Li

Bruce Lee
1971 – Fist of Fury – Lo Wei with Bruce Lee
1994 – Fist of Legend – Gordon Chan with Jet Li
1999 – The Matrix – Andy & Larry Wachowski
1973 - Enter the Dragon – Robert Clouse with Bruce Lee
1978 – Game of Death – Bruce Lee
2001 – Shaolin Soccer - Stephen Chow

1962 – To Kill A Mockingbird – Robert Mulligan with Gregory Peck

The Evil Computer
1968 – 2001: A space odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
2008 – Wall-e – Andrew Stanton

The Godfather
1972 – The Godfather - Francis Ford Coppola
1974 – The Godfather, Part 2 – - Francis Ford Coppola

Steven Spielberg
1975 – Jaws – Steven Spielberg
1993 – Jurassic Park – Steven Spielberg
2007 – Transformers – Michael Bay – Steven Spielberg, executive producer

Sinking Ships
1997 – Titanic – James Cameron
1979 – The Black Stallion - Francis Ford Coppola

Riding in Circles
1979 – The Black Stallion - Francis Ford Coppola
2005 – Dreamer – John Gatins
2003 – Seabiscuit – Gary Ross
1979 – Breaking Away – Peter Yates

Stephen King
1980 – The Shining - Stanley Kubrick
1994 – Shawshank Redemption – Frank Darabont

The Opening Scene
1981 – Road Warrior – George Miller
1960 – La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini
1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark – Steven Spielberg & George Lucas

Australian Action
1981 – Road Warrior – George Miller
1982 – The Man from Snowy River – George Miller

Budget Matters
1984 – Terminator 1 – James Cameron
1991 – Terminator 2 – James Cameron

And Now for Something Completely Different…
1983 – Meaning of Life – Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Locked in the 80s
1986 – Ferris Bueller – John Hughes with Matthew Broderick

Royalty: Real & Imagined
1987 – The Last Emperor – Bernardo Bertolucci
1987 – The Princess Bride – Rob Reiner

1988 – Die Hard –John McTiernan with Bruce Willis

Choices
1989 – Do The Right Thing – Spike Lee
1989 – The Last Crusade – Steven Spielberg

Digital Animation
1991 – Beauty and the Beast – Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
1995 – Toy Story 1 – John Lasseter
1999 – Toy Story 2 – Lee Unkrich

1992 – Waynes World – Penelope Spheeris

1991 – Chung King Express – Wong Kar Wai

Time Matters
1994 – Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino
1991 – Run Lola Run – Tom Tykwer
1993 – Groundhog Day – Harold Ramis
2000 – Memento – Christopher Nolan

Hong Kong moves West
1997 – Face/Off – John Woo
2002 – Infernal Affairs – Lau Wai Keung & Alan Mak
2006 – The Departed – Martin Scorsese

2003 – Pirates of the Caribbean – Gore Verbinski

2005 – Sin City – Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller

2008 – Cloverfield – Matt Reeves

2008 – Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle

The END
1983 – The Meaning of Life – Monty Python’s Flying Circus

until then...  be sure to get blogging and stay up with your blogs.

Absences:
Sara Wong
Calvin Ho

More than 15 minutes late:
Kevin Cheung

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