The Directed Studies Film Series has been offered to complement a handful of the texts assigned each semester for the Directed Studies academic program. The films, which unless otherwise noted are in 35mm, play any number of roles in relation to the texts: some may be direct adaptations, others may display a similar thematic sensibility, and still others may directly challenge the arguments of a DS text. Directed Studies films, then, may parallel the DS texts, provide counterpoints to them, or match their accomplishments—in short, consistently providing yet another lens through which we might view the Western Canon.
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Past series have run as follows:
Fall 2008
Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946)
The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Spring 2008
The Thin Red Line (USA, 1998) 170 min. Dir. Terrence Malick
Pickpocket (France, 1959) 75 min. Dir. Robert Bresson
Abraham's Valley (Portugal, 1993) 187 min. Dir. Manoel de Oliveira
Fall 2007
Spartacus (USA, 1960, 198 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Day of Wrath (Denmark, 1943, 97 min. Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Hail Mary (France, 1985, 107 min. Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
Spring 2007
RoboCop (USA, 1987, 102 min., Dir. Paul Verhoeven)
Ran (Japan, 1985, 160 min. Dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Fall 2006
Sign of the Cross (1932, 125 min, Cecil B. DeMille)
The Life of Brian (1979, 94 min., dir. Terry Jones)
The Death of Empedocles (1987, 132 min, dir. Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, 95 min, Robert Bresson)
Spring 2006
Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955, 16mm)
Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol, 1991)
Love and Death (Woody Allen, 1975)
Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Fall 2005
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
Lost Lost Lost (Jonas Mekas, 1976)