GERM 3395/Spring 2005- University of Houston Dr. Sandy Frieden
GERM 3395/Spring 2005- University of Houston Dr. Sandy Frieden
HISTORY OF GERMAN CINEMA: Extra Credit
SEQUENCE ANALYSES: You may earn 2 pts. extra credit for each SEQUENCE ANALYSIS you turn in on a film clip from a required film (maximum = 1 Sequence Analysis per required film) (24 pts.) MUST BE HANDED IN DURING THE DISCUSSION WEEK FOR THAT FILM-NO LATE ACCEPTANCES.
EXTRA CREDIT FILM VIEWING: For one point extra credit each, you may view and critique (using a "Film Evaluation Sheet") any German film--that is, by a German director still holding German citizenship at the time the film was made, even if the film is not in German. For example: only Fritz Lang's German films, not his Hollywood films-but any film by Wim Wenders. SPECIAL NOTE: YOU MAY COUNT NO MORE THAN 2 FILMS OF WOLFGANG PETERSEN OR ROLAND EMMERICH!
**ALL EXTRA CREDIT FILM EVALUATIONS MUST BE HANDED IN BY April 12, AND YOU MUST COMPLETE ALL 12 REQUIRED EVALUATIONS OR ELSE NONE OF THESE WILL COUNT!!**
I will be glad to advise you if you're interested in particular types of films-or you can look them up at http://us.imdb.com/ for more information! WARNING: YOU MAY FIND VERY OBJECTIONABLE MATERIAL IN SOME OF THESE FILMS!!!!
I. ALTERNATIVE THEATERS in Houston for possible extra-credit film viewing:
Rice Media Center, Entrance 7, Rice University, 713/527-4853
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Bissonnet & Main, 713/639-7515
River Oaks Landmark Theater, W. Gray & S. Shepherd, 713/524-2175
Greenway 3, Greenway Plaza, 713/626-0402
Angelika Film Center, Bayou Place (downtown Houston), 713/CALL-AFC
(most of these theaters are cheaper than the average commercial theater, and also have mailing lists so that you can receive their schedules)
II. VIDEOS FOR RENT
You may find German films on videotape or DVD at local outlets (especially Audio Video Plus on Waugh or Cactus on Shepherd) or on cable TV. You may also rent or buy them by mail from FACETS (1-800-331-6197=ask for their new free German Film on Video guide) or you can rent many on DVD by mail from NETFLIX (www.netflix.com) or BLOCKBUSTER (www.blockbuster.com). For example:
Mephisto Paris Texas Bagdad Cafe
The Nasty Girl A Love in Germany Das Boot
The Neverending Story The Blue Angel Rosalie Goes Shopping
Pandora's Box The Boat is Full Sugarbaby
Mädchen in Uniform Woman in Flames The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
III. ON UH CAMPUS: Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages LANGUAGE ACQUISITION CENTER
The Language Acquisition Center is located on the 3rd floor of Agnes Arnold Hall, Rm. C311. Please call (713) 743-3132 or email langlab@uh.edu if you have any questions. http://www.class.uh.edu/lac/index.html.
Fall & Spring Schedule:
Monday-Thursday 8 am 8 pm
Friday 8 am 5 pm
Saturday CLOSED
Sunday 2 pm 7 pm
Videos must be viewed in the Language Acquisition Center. Most of these films have English subtitles. SEE WEBSITE FOR MOST RECENTLY UPDATE LIST! These are in addition to our class films.
Bagdad Cafe VVG 119 Percy Adlon
Berlin Romance VVG 174 Gerhard Klein
Berlin "Symphony of a Great City & OPUS I" VVG 121 Walther Ruttmann
Blue Light, The VVG 124 Leni Riefenstahl
The Blum Affair VVG 181 Kurt Maetzig
Boat, The "Das Boot" VVG 067 Wolfgang Petersen
Der müde Tod (Destiny) VVE 042 Fritz Lang
Deutschland Im Jahre Null (Germany Year Zero) VVG 135 Roberto Rossellini
Diary of a Lost Girl VVG 123 G. W. Pabst
Dragon Chow (Drachenfutter) VVG 130 Jan Schütte
The Gleiwitz Case VVG 182 Gerhard Klein
Heart of Glass VVG 029 Werner Herzog
Joyless Street, The VVG 033 G. W. Pabst
Just Don't Think I'll Cry VVG 180 Frank Vogel
Kleist / Der Zerbrochene Krug (Broken Jug) VVG 075 H. v. Kleist/G. Ucicky
Knife In the Head VVG 064 Reinhard Hauff
Locked Up Time (same as "Barred Time") VVG 140 Sybille Schönemann
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, The (Böll) VVG 008 V. Schlöndorff/M.v.Trotta
Mädchen in Uniform VVG 120 Leontine Sagan
Makin' Up! VVG 134 Katja von Garnier
Maybe... Maybe not VVG 093
Men. A Screwball Romantic Comedy VVG 028 Doris Dörrie
Mother Krausen's Journey into Happiness VVG 129 Piel Jutzi
Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, The VVG 057 Werner Herzog
Nasty Girl, The VVG 023 Michael Verhoeven
Nosferatu (A Symphohy of Horror) VVG 125 F.W. Murnau
Olympia: Festival of Beauty [Fascist] VVG 116 Leni Riefenstahl
Olympia: Festival of the Nation [Fascist] VVG 117 Leni Riefenstahl
One, Two, Three VVE 044 Billy Wilder
Pandora's Box VVG 034 G. W. Pabst
Paris, Texas VVG 024 Wim Wenders
The Promise (about the East) VVG 168 Margarete von Trotta
The Rabbit Is Me VVG 177 Kurt Maetzig
Rosa Luxemburg VVG 131 Margarethe von Trotta
Toni Kroger VVG 065 Thomas Mann
Under the Bridge VVG 128 Helmut Käutner
The Underdog (The Subject) VVG 058 Wolfgang Staudte
AND:
The Language Acquisition Center will also have these videos under my name-all may count for extra credit:
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Fassbinder-14 points) Invisible Adversaries
Despair The Golem
Veronica Voss Fitzcarraldo
A Man Called Eva Nosferatu (Herzog)
Querelle Burden of Dreams
Germany Pale Mother Woyzeck
Young Törless Stroszek
Peppermint Peace Every Man for Himself
Anita Dances of Vice I Am My Own Woman
One Plus One Equals Three Smithereens
A Question of Silence The Trouble with Love
Variety (U.S.A.-Bette Gordon) The White Rose
Brazil Hunger Years
IV. UH M.D. Anderson Library
Besides having copies on reserve for most of our films for the class, the library also has many other films you could check out and watch for extra credit. Search here:
http://library.uh.edu/search/>http://library.uh.edu/search/