Movies Film Studies! Yay!

I went to my first Film Studies class yesterday. Being the first class, we didn't actually study anything. I was given a list of the movies we will be watching/discussing/analyzing:
Primitives And Pioneers (a collection of early films)
Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919 - an old silent movie)
Casablanca (Michael Cutriz, 1942 - classic Humphrey Bogart)
Citizen Cane (Orson Welles, 1941 - supposedly the best movie ever)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950 - mmmm ... samurai movies ...)
Last Year At Marienbad (Alain Renais, 1961 - don't know anything about this movie)
The Accused (Jonathan Kaplan, 1988 - drawing a blank here)
Emma (Douglas McGrath, 1996 - unfortunately, I have to read the book as well)
Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995 - based on Emma, apparently)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze, 2002 - apparently, this one made the list because of the adaptations we study)
The Matrix (Wachowski & Wachowski, 1999) or Run Lola Run (don't know the director, 2000)

Sounds like a fun class, no?

 

Casablanca and Citizen Cane are MUSTS, I imagine, and Rashomon rings a few bells. I really want to see Adaptation...

Dude, I love your class. ^_^ I'm going into the area of film studies when I hit college, too.

I MUST see Casablanca. *_*

 

It almost makes me want to change majors ...
Even the lectures are interesting. We talk about the differences between "film" and "cinema", the history of the movie industry, and even how it developed from a technology to an art (although now it's kind of a technical art). It's also nice how if I say something about a director, someone's bound to know what I'm talking about.
We watched Broken Blossoms, and it was long and boring, oh, and racist, but otherwise not too bad. I understand it was very important to the silent genre, though.