OT: Best movie ever (sorry)...
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The Godfather.
And @YeOldeCup might enjoy this story.
The long way home: a 2,000-mile road trip in an untested '79 Pontiac Trans Am
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2020/07/29/pontiac-trans-am-mike-musto-road-trip
My Film ^Teacher at PSU would agree - gotta love those free electives.
Ughhh I took that class as it was supposed to be easy, it was anything but.
I did enjoy the movies though.
Two of my "Top 5" of all time are Bogart movies: "The Maltese Falcon" and "Casablanca".
Liked Shawshank, not necessarily my top, but up there. There is a line from the movie I often use when speaking with clients and employees, "Hope is a good thing".
Yes, class was Theater Arts 70 ??, long time ago, think I got it right. He liked Tom Jones and the Peter Sellers movie, something about the bomb, don't recall the name. So for my written reports I praised both films. As the say "aced" the course. Probably the most interesting course I took during my four years. Saw the classics and learned why they were classics. Citizen Kane, Birth of a Nation, Chaplin, Silent Films, the John Wayne effect.
Same. I wasnt watching for symbolism, I hated the tests. My class was in the forum. Only class where it ever was full other than chem 12
According to David Mamet, here are the four perfect movies:
The Godfather
A Place In The Sun
Dodsworth
Galaxy Quest
The Godfather
A Place In The Sun
Dodsworth
Galaxy Quest
I enjoyed this class also. Besides some of those mentioned, we got to see : The Red Balloon, Student made film called "Spring Fantasy".
Godfather II, Shawshank Redemption, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, A League of Their Own, Eight Men Out, Bang the Drum Slowly, and quite a few of the Coen Brothers (Big Lebowski) and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) movies.
I spent my years as a physics grad student at Penn State informally auditing many film courses, catching every film series I could (Bergman, Fellini, Chaplin, and many others) and faithfully attending the foreign and classic films shown in Kern., Schwab, and elsewhere on campus and in town. What an education! What a time!
On the related subject of Not The Greatest Films, does anyone remember the hard-core porn films shown in the physics lecture hall in Osmond Lab back in the day? I think they were shown as a fundraiser by fraternities, but I am not certain of that. My then girlfriend (now my wife) wanted to go see one with some of her girlfriends. I warned her that whatever you do, do not get up and leave in the middle of the film. She asked why and I said, "You'll see why". Sure enough, one of her friends had seen enough and started to leave. The chorus of male hoots and jeers are probably still haunting her friend's nightmares after all these years.
They were shown in the Forum Building as well. As a four year dorm rat in Holmes Hall, it was a short walk...
Yeah, there were year-long Fellini and Chaplin festivals my first year, '74-'75.
Ellis Grove was most likely the instructor. Turns out he had some peccadilloes...
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We probably saw them together, LionJim. I was there through those golden years: great times. The Kern Graduate Building (affectionately known as The KGB) had some great foreign film series as well.
I just realized that my first year '74-5 was Bergman and Chaplin. Yeah, good times.
The latter was shown at night in the quad at North Halls one spring during my 77-81 tenure. Was pretty cool. The grass was covered with beach towels and everybody had a great time.
Yep - it was Theater 190 when I took it. I think "Nanook of the North" was the first (silent) film shown. I was really impressed with the stunts and physical capabilities of Buster Keaton during the Chaplin era.
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