i started a film club

[w/o horse]

Fucking Herzog man.  It's your duty.

Also, split, right?

[Pubrick]

Also, split, right?

right!

[pete]

try To Live.  not too old, but feels old, and it is a great and often overlooked movie.  I saw it in 7th grade and loved it, so I'm sure your peers can sit through it too.  It is probably the most soulful movie of the 20th century.

[cron]

try To Live.

tee- hee.

[squints]

We have a couple of clubs like that here in oklahoma (as weird as that sounds)...one is called unseen cinema that shows about 4 or 5 movies a semester and another group called the Claude Raines Appreciation Society (CRAS)...CRAS shows mostly obscure films that they praise because of their enormous camp value or other such reasons...(they played All American Murder..a film made in the 80s that just happens to feature Christopher Walken and was shot on our campus)..but the unseen cinema is great..I had already seen OLDBOY but that was the first one they showed this semester and seeing it on the big screen was fantastic...Unseen Cinema has also showed some greats like A Knife in the Water, Gun Crazy (AkA Deadly is the Female), Osama, Hyenas, and most recently Errol Morris's Gates of Heaven (which i enjoyed immensely)...both of the programs are great because i can't tell you all how ignorant most okies are when it comes to film (except of course for FilmStudent and RegularKarate)...and i'm happy to say i'm partially responsible for the playing of OLDBOY...next semester i suggested Downfall...hopefully they'll play it

[pete]

camp value...kids need to chill out with the whole camp value craze.  I mean, the whole thing got old in the late 90s when UPS was making campy ads.  what's wrong with just liking a bad movie?  why do kids these days feel the need to be snide in order to show that they're having a good time in public? 

[squints]

i'm not a member of CRAS..mostly cause the kids are pretentious douches

[soixante]

A good intro to Bergman is Wild Strawberries.  Persona is too complex to start with.

Bresson's Au Hazard Balthasar is good because it's mostly visual.

Godard's Weekend, or My Life to Live.

Battleship Potemkin.

Umberto D.

Rules of the Game.

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Shadows.

[NEON MERCURY]

So tonight I showed the 400 Blows at my school.  I started this club called film team, and the idea is to expose kids to great movies that they'd probably never see--mainly classic foreign movies.  400 blows was the first one we showed. next week is la strada (my personal favorite of fellini)

we projected the criterion version and it looked great.   kids that i would have never thought really liked it. 

good luck.......but please change the name....film team sounds so...well, you know

[The Perineum Falcon]

I don't know if I'd choose to show Metropolis or not. Silent films have a bad name, really, among those who never watch them. When one says "silent film" they think of Vaudeville or over acting and silly speeded up film. Metropolis garnered a few laughs when shown in my Modern Art class, it's good for the sheer spectacle, but I think it has some of those issues I've mentioned.
I remember The Passion of Joan of Arc changed the way I thought of Silent films. It's beautiful and moving (especially with "Voices of Light") and has totally stood up over time.
And it's foreign.

Rules of the Game.

Deffinitely.

[soixante]

I picked Wild Strawberries because that was the first Bergman film I ever saw.  I saw it when I was in high school, and I felt like I could basically grasp what was going on.  I saw Persona in my 20's, and I don't think I understood it at all.

Umberto D is good because it is rather simple -- an older man tries to find his dog.  It is really about the daily routine of an old man, and the isolation brought on by age.

Battleship Potemkin shows that the quick cutting style wasn't invented by MTV.

Ken Russell's Tommy would be good just for weirdness.  Nic Roeg's Performance is pretty out there, although it might be unsuitable for high school kids, what with all the nudity and drug use.  However, there is a great scene in which a Rolls Royce is coated with carbolic acid.

[JG]

So tonight I showed the 400 Blows at my school.  I started this club called film team, and the idea is to expose kids to great movies that they'd probably never see--mainly classic foreign movies.  400 blows was the first one we showed. next week is la strada (my personal favorite of fellini)

we projected the criterion version and it looked great.   kids that i would have never thought really liked it. 

good luck.......but please change the name....film team sounds so...well, you know

Film team isn't my idea.  I had it just as foreign film club but the kid that helped me start thought it would be funny. 

[Gamblour.]

he has a horrible sense of humor. "the" is funny. make it "THE film team" and he'll pee his pants and explode from laughter.

[Garam]

Show an Alan Clarke film if you get the chance. Made in Britain, preferably.

[Alethia]

^^ definitly.....show as much cassavetes, herzog, clarke, peckinpah, godard, bresson, dreyer, fassbinder, chaplin, keaton, murnau, kazan, fuller, bergman etc that u can....