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Previous Lyceum Film Series

  • The Development of Film (Summer 2005)
  • The Art of Self-Construction (Summer 2005)
  • Unlucky in Love (Spring 2005)
  • Daring Directors (Summer & Fall 2004)


    The Development of Film Series:

    June 9
    Birth of a Nation (1915) Director: D.W. Griffith
    [a controversial classic is silent film]

    June 16
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Director: Robert Wiene
    [German expressionism]

    June 23
    Battleship Potemkin (1925) Director: Serge Eisenstein
    [montage and propaganda]

    June 30
    Stagecoach (1939) Director: John Ford
    [social critique through the western]

    July 7
    Double Indemnity (1944) Director: Billy Wilder
    [film noir at its finest]

    July 14
    The Bicycle Thief (1948) Director: Vittorio de Sica
    [Italian neo-realism]

    July 21
    Imitation of Life (1959) Director: Douglas Sirk
    [Social commentary in the 50's]

    July 28
    Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Director: David Lean
    [the studio epic of the 60's]

    August 4
    The Graduate (1967) Director: Mike Nichols
    [defining a generation]

    August 11
    All the President's Men (1976) Director: Alan Pakula
    [film as current history]

    August 18
    River's Edge (1986) Director: Tim Hunter
    [into the abyss of post-modernity]

    August 25
    Requiem for a Dream (2000) Director: Darren Aronofsky
    [independent films rock!]


    Art of Self-Construction Series:

    June 12
    Shadow of a Doubt (1942) Director: Alfred Hitchcock

    June 26
    Primary Colors (1998) Director: Mike Nichols

    July 10
    Who is Harry Kellerman and Why is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1969) Director: Ulu Grossbard

    July 24
    The Apostle (1997) Director: Robert Duvall

    Aug. 7
    Invincible (2002) Director: Werner Herzog

    Aug. 21
    To Die For (1995) Director: Gus Van Sant

    Sept. 4
    Amelie (2001) Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet


    Unlucky in Love Series:

  • May 26 Urbania (USA, 2000) Dir: Jon Shear
  • May 12 Crash (USA, 1996) Dir: David Cronenberg
  • April 28 L'Enfer (France, 1994) Dir: Claude Chabrol
  • April 14 Jungle Fever (USA, 1991) Dir: Spike Lee
  • March 31 Open Your Eyes (Spain, 1997) Dir: Alejandro Amenabar
  • March 17 Betty Blue (France, 1986) Dir: Jean-Jacques Beineix
  • March 3 The Night Porter (Italy, 1974) Dir: Liliana Cavini
  • February 17 Weekend (France, 1967) Dir: Jean-Luc Godard
  • February 3 The Grifters (USA, 1990) Dir: Stephen Frears
  • January 20 Peeping Tom (Great Britain, 1960) Dir: Michael Powell
  • January 6 The Misfits (USA, 1961) Dir: John Huston


    Daring Directors Series:

  • (12/30/4) Abbas Kiarostami - Taste of Cherry (1997)
  • (12/16/4) Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver (1976)
  • (12/9/4) Harmony Korine - Gummo (1997)
  • (12/2/4) Eric Rohmer - The Collectionneuse (1967)
  • (11/18/4) David Lynch - Lost Highway (1997)
  • (11/11/4) Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation (1974)
  • (10/28/4) Werner Herzog - Nosferatu (1979)
  • (10/21/4) Steven Soderbergh - The Limey (1999)
  • (10/14/4) Akira Kurosawa - Rashomon (1950)
  • (10/7/4) Jim Jarmusch - Stranger Than Paradise (1983)
  • (9/30/4) Pedro Almodovar - All About My Mother (1999)
  • (9/23/4) Lars von Trier - Breaking the Waves (1996)
  • (9/16/4) Francois Truffaut - Day for Night (1973)
  • (9/2/4) Sergei Eisenstein - October (1927)
  • (8/26/4) Derek Jarman - The Last of England (1988)
  • (8/19/4) Atom Egoyan - Felicia's Journey (1999)
  • (8/12/4) Ingmar Bergman - Wild Strawberries (1957)
  • (7/29/4) Andy Warhol - Flesh (1968)
  • (7/22/4) Pier Paol Pasolini - Hawks and Sparrows (1966)
  • (7/15/4) Michelangelo Antonioni - Zabriskie Point (1970)
  • (7/8/4) Roman Polanski - Tenant (1976)
  • (7/1/4) Alfred Hitchcock - Rope (1948)
  • (6/24/4) Peter Greenaway - The Pillow Book (1996)
  • (6/17/4) Jean-Luc Godard - Breathless (1960)

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