Top Ten
I admittedly don't have the most refined taste in movies. I've never been a huge movie buff (as some of my peers apparently are), but the movies that I do like I tend to watch over and over and over again. So here we go....
June 13, 2007
My Top 10 Movies
These are my top 10 movies. ShawShank Redemption is a MUST SEE! movie.
1) ShawShank Redemption
2) American Beauty
3) Se7en
4) Grave of The FireFlies
5) Glory
6) The Usual Suspect
7) K-Pax
8) Black Girl
9) Mystic River
10) Taxi
Top 10...yeah right
I want to start by saying that this was a needlessly hard assignment.
I may be one of the most indecisive people ever and when I tried to pick my top 10 that was made very clear. After thinking for quite some time and making a list of 20 or so I finally asked my boyfriend for some input. He suggested that I pretend that I am picking 10 movies to stay in existance and the others will all disappear. My criteria then quickly changed and there were some things that I just couldn't part with, these made the cut:
*East of Eden
*Rebel without a Cause
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*When Harry Met Sally...
*Pleasantville
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*Alice in Wonderland
*The Shining
*The Truman Show
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*The Wizard of Oz
*Oceans 11
*It's a Wonderful Life
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Now the thing is the second I upload this post I am going to immediatly wish that I had replaced something with The Kid, Moulin Rouge, or even The Notebook just because there are too many films that I couldn't never see again. I am glad that making that choice isn't truly the assignment! How could I get by without James Dean and James Stewart? Not possible.
Introduction to me and some of my liked/disliked movies
I am a person who lives between worlds, cultures and civilizations, the constant immigrant who is seen as foreigner wherever he is. An immigrant from Israel and an American citizen- I am too Israeli for Americans and too American for the Israelis.
I live between the worlds, the spheres and realities of the stereotypic masculine existence and what is at times perceived as the feminine one: (vegetarian) cooking/baking is my passion and I detest sports (watching or participating) in a similar level of passion.
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Amy's Top 10
Here are only ten of my long list of favorite movies...mixture of some classics and some 20th century Hollywood films, and can't forget about Walt Disney :)
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My Top 10
These are my ten favorite films in the order I thought fit the best. I must say that this was really hard to narrow down to just ten. I like so many movies
1. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Tarantino 2004)
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Tarantino 2003)
3. The Descent (Marshall 2005)
4. Se7en (Fincher 1995)
5. Memento Mori (Tae-Wong, Kyu-Dong 1999)
6. Ghost World (Zwigoff 2001)
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Selick 1993)
8. Spiderman 2 (Raimi 2004)
9. Fight Club (Fincher 1999)
10. Battle Royale (Fukusaku 2000)
In the extended area, I have added what I believe to be the definitive scene of the film, or if I can't decide on one, or even find a clip of it, I will just post the trailer
My top 10
Hey you all,
so maybe it is because I don't watch a lot of TV, but I realized my top 10 list is very....well, Hollywood. But hey, I like them!
1. Along Came a Spider
2. Swordfish
3. Class Act
4. Underworld (1 and 2)
5. 4 Brothers
6. Vin Diesel...Riddick, Man Apart, XXX, Pitch Black...love them all
7. Ocean 1, 2, and 3
8. Mr and Mrs. Smith
9. Pirates of the Caribbean
10.G.I. Jane
I love movies that make me think....the action and suspense makes the movie even better...also when the girl kicks @#% is always fun!!!
Molly M.
June 12, 2007
Introducing ...
Ten Films I can Watch Repeatedly
(Usually Without Suffering Ill Effects)
(and in No Particular Order After Two or Three)
1. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2. Waking Life (IMDb)
3. Fight Club
4. Memento
5. Bladerunner (IMDb)
6. The Matrix
7. The Fifth Element (IMDb)
8. Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
10. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Hey all!
Hey everyone,
My name is Anna Feuerhelm and I'm going to give my top 10 list. Many of them are foreign films in Spanish.
1. Mar Adentro
2. Lord of War
3. y tu mama tambien
4. motorcycle diaries
5. blood diamond
6. en la puta vida
7. silence of the lambs
8. lucia y el sexo
9. meet the parents
10. matchstick men
friday nights with my cat
1. My Neighbor Totoro
2. Seagull Diner
3. Love Me If You Dare
4. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
5. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
6. My Fair Lady
7. Me & You & Everyone We Know
8. The Manual Of Love
9. The Void
10. Y Tu Mama Tambien
Like many people, I have a collection of movies, which I love to watch repeatedly. Here is the list of my Top 10s and some other movies that I like. Since, I was born and raised in a different country; consequently, I am adding name of the movies in different languages as well. If you are interested in knowing the meaning of any of them, then kindly let me know, I will translate it for you.
My Top Ten...eat your heart out, David Letterman
Top Ten films...What a difficult task! Regardless, I tried my best to wittle it down to 10. Here is what I decided, in no particular order:
1.) Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
2.) Bacheha-Ye aseman (Children of Heaven) (Majid Majidi, 1997)
3.) Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)
4.) Festen (The Celebration) (Thomas Vinterberg,1998)
5.) Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
6.) Grindhouse (in particular, Death Proof) (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)
7.) Goyangileul butaghae (Take Care of My Cat) (Jae-eun Jeong, 2001)
8.) Le souffle au coeur (Murmur of the Heart) (Louis Malle, 1971)
9.) Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1964)
10.) Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
Top 10 and then some
Because I actually attempt to keep an extensive list of my favorite films, you can find the remainder of what I consider my "elite" favorites in the extended section. The complete list is constantly fluctuating despite my attempts to have some stability in it all (I feel safe saying that these "elites" are more or less secure). In total it's a ridiculous endeavor.
1. The Adventures of Milo & Otis (Masanori Hata, 1989 USA)
2. The Crying Game (Neil Jordan, 1992)
3. True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)
4. Raising Arizona (Joel Coen, 1987)
5. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996)
6. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
7. Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1986)
8. The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
9. Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, 1990)
10. Gosford Park (Robert Altman, 2001)
The "Grindhouse" adaptation of my favorite film:
You can find more of these poster adaptations here.
Top 10 List
1) 2046
2) The Best of Youth
3) The Royal Tenenbaums
4) Chungking Express
5) Ikiru
6) Eyes Wide Shut
7) The 5 Obstructions
8) Princess Mononoke
9) Punch Drunk Love
10) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
* My Top 10 Films *
"I am here to inform these modern times of the grammatical era's end and the beginning of flamboyance especially in cinema." Joesph Balsam , Le Week-end, 1967
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(chronological order)
Cléo de 5 à 7, Agnès Varda, 1961
Masculin Féminin, Jean-Luc Gadard, 1966
*Le Week-end, Jean-Luc Godard, 1967
Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, 1967
The Graduate, MIke Nichols, 1967
*Manhattan, Woody Allan, 1979
The Secret of NIMH, Don Bluth, 1982
The Unbarable Lightness of Being, Philip Kaufman, 1988
*Lost Highway, David Lynch, 1997
Boys Don't Cry, Kimberly Peirce, 1999
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"We'd often go to the movies. We'd shiver as the screen lit up. But more often, Madeline and I would be disappointed. More often we'd be disappointed. The images flickered. Marilyn Monroe looked terribly old. It saddened us. It wasn't the film we had dreamed, the film we all carried in our hearts, the film we wanted to make... and secretly wanted to live." Paul, Masculin Féminin,1966
images taken from:
www.mindspring.com/~laserdisc-forever/losthighway-front_new.jpg
www.sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org
mrl.nyu.edu/~kristja/images/manhattan.jpg
June 11, 2007
Welcome to the Course! / Rachel's Top 10 Lists
Welcome to the public blog for the Summer course "GWSS 3307 - Feminist Film Studies: On Media, Representation, Sex, Gender, Violence and Women Making Movies". This course is newly designed this term to include lots active learning (see this, this and this for examples). I have been thinking a lot about feminist pedagogy, media literacy and teaching/research/learning with technology.
We will post frequently to this blog. Students are assigned a few mandatory posts throughout the course, but are encouraged to post more for extra credit and for fun! We also have a myu portal course website (but that's a private space for enrolled students only).
As Instructor (and Instructional Designer) I encourage students to write beyond our isolated classroom community. My hopes are to teach students to think, speak, and write critically but responsibly, and to connect our thoughts, ideas, and work to the world, thus - this blog.
I'm asking the students to read rebecca's pocket guide to weblog ethics but if you have a good site or guide for new bloggers and students, please link us!
Hopefully this blog will be a productive and creative collaborative space.
Looking forward to a great term!
-Rachel
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