In a little over a week, the Fall Semester will be upon me. I’m currently enrolled in American Independent Cinema and rumor has it that this professor wants our homework to be all movie watching, all the time. With my handy Directory of World Cinema: American Independent at my side, I think it’s time to play Guess the Syllabus.
I’ve had this professor once before, so I know he likes Anderson, Baumbach and Tarantino (although he also assumes that most college kids have seen at least some of their movies). He also includes at least a few recent films, so I’m guessing there will be one 2010 or 2011 theatrical release.
Mullholland Dr.
Rushmore
Synedoche, New York
She’s Gotta Have It
Hostel
Boogie Nights
A Woman Under the Influence
Killing Zoe
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The King of Kong
Buffalo ’66
sex, lies and videotape
Lost Highway
Primer
Broken Flowers
Easy Rider
Five Easy Pieces
Stranger Than Paradise
Mala Noche
Pink Flamingos
Shortbus
All the Real Girls
The Station Agent
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
Go
Slacker
Happiness
Pull My Daisy
Schizopolis
And the 2010/2011 spot goes to… I really want to say The Future, but seeing Holy Rollers again would be super. And there will probably be a Sofia Coppola spot, so I’m gonna go with “Somewhere”.
Naturally, it would be better if this syllabus took me completely by surprise and introduced a whole slew of American Independents that I’ve never even heard of. But, y’know, we’ll see.
I hope the syllabus is pretty surprising as well. Though if I remember 256 correctly, we’ll probably only get the first few weeks of the syllabus on the first day. But I like your guesses – I hope he goes with The Future too!
Yeah, I fully expect that weird, lax-syllabus that he gave us last time. Oh well, at least we’ll be seeing some cool movies regardless!
I took an American Independent Cinema class once! It was awesome- totally opened me up to tons of new filmmakers since I was a junior in high school at the time and knew a lot less about movies. We watched several of the films and filmmakers you list here. Also I remember:
GAS, FOOD, LODGING (Allison Anders)
IN THE SOUP (Alexandre Rockwell)
SAFE (Todd Haynes)
TRUST (Hal Hartley !!!!!!!)
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (Julie Dash)
So maybe those are possibilities too? I hope you have a kickass syllabus and a good start to the semester!
Yeah! I would love to see some Allison Anders on this syllabus. And Hal Hartley, judging by your exclamation points. Hopefully I can compare these guesses come Monday.
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