FR 341 Le cinéma français / FRENCH CINEMA             Mid-semester dossier  45%

Jean-Jacques Thomas                                                   Final dossier  45%

Printemps 2016                                                               Active class participation  10%

Theme "A new Take on Sentimental Journeys"

Tuesday  & Thursday  12:30 - 1:50

Mandatory textbook: Course web site http://www.ieeff.org/ub341S16.html

                                                                                  ELEMENTARY FRENCH VOCABULARY FOR FILM STUDIES

Suggested: Marilyn Fabe, Closely Watched Films, University of California, 10e ed., 2014.

Class presence is mandatory. Any absence should be justified with a note preferably in advance

SYLLABUS

January

T 26 : Introduction / presentation of the course. Goals of the course. Structure of the course. Short history of French cinema.

Th  28 :  The innovations of the "New Wave" (Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, etc.), the current film directors and directions.  

February

T 2 :  Th 4  : T 9 :                         Pépé le Moko, Julien Duvivier (1936)      [Pépé le Moko]

Th 11 : T 16                              A bout de souffle, Jean-Luc Godard  (1960)         [Breathless]

Th 18

T 23 : Th 25                             L’ Amour en fuite, François Truffaut (1979)                [Love on the run]

March

T 1 :  Th 3 :                                Tristana,  Luis Bunuel ( 1970 )                                     [Tristana] 

T 8 :  Th 10 :                              Le genou de Claire, Eric Rohmer ( 1970)                   [Claire’s Knee]

                                                                     SPRING BREAK

T 22:  Th 24:                             L’Amant,  Jean-Jacques Annaud (1992)                     [The Lover]                                         

T 29 :  Th  31:                           Les Compères, Francis Veber    (1983)                  [The Comdads]                              

April

T 5 :  T 12  :                             Nikita, Luc Besson (1990)                                             [Nikita]

 Th 14 : T 19 : Th 21 :  Un long dimanche de fiançailles,   Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2004)  

                                                                                                                          [A very long engagement]

T 26 : Th 28 :                Samba, Nakache and Toledano (2014)                    [Samba]

May

T 3 :  Th 5                          La belle et la bête, Christophe Gans   (2014)     

                                                                                                                        [Beauty and the Beast ]