PHIL 395: PHILOSOPHY AND FILM
FILM SCHEDULE
1/18/2012
WEEK 1:
Reading:
Thomas Wartenberg, “Philosophy and Film”: plato.stanford.edu/entries/film
Films:
The Man from Earth
WEEK 2:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 1 (Plato's Picture Show: the Theory of Knowledge)
Films:
The Corporation
A Clockwork Orange
WEEK 3
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 1 (continued)
Films:
Kadosh
Being John Malkovich
WEEK 4:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 2 (All of Me: The Self and Personal Identity)
Films:
Memento
WEEK 5:
***Exam on Wednesday***
The exam will cover (1) the Wartenberg essay, (2) Falzon Chapter 1, (3) Falzon Chapter 2, Part 1 (“Plato and the Three Parts of the Soul”), and (4) assigned films up to and including Memento.
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 2 continued
Films:
Winter’s Bone (included in second exam)
Battleship Potemkin
WEEK 6:
Writing assignment do by Wednesday evening (submit through email)
See “Writing Assignments” on course web page”
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 2 continued
Films:
Mr. Death
8 1/2
WEEK 7:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 3 (Crimes and Misdemeanors: Moral Philosophy)
Films:
Contact
WEEK 8:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 3 continued
Films:
What Dreams May Come
WEEK 9:
Reading
Falzon: Chapter 3 continued
Films:
(included in third exam)
WEEK 10
***Exam on Wednesday***
The exam will cover (1) Falzon Chapter 2 (Part two on Descartes and beyond) and Chapter 3 (in entirety), and (2) assigned films from Winter’s Bone through Eternal Sunshine
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 4 (Antz: Social and Political Philosophy)
Films:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
WEEK 11:
Writing assignment do by Wednesday evening (submit through email)
See “Writing Assignments” on course web page”
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 4 continued
Films:
Religulous
WEEK 12:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 4 continued
Films:
Happy Accidents
WEEK 13:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 5 (Modern Times: Society, Science and Technology)
Films:
Crimes and Misdemeanors (UTM DVD)
WEEK 14:
Reading:
Falzon: Chapter 5 continued
Films:
Metropolis
FINAL EXAM:
The final exam will cover (1) Falzon Chapter 4 and 5, complete, (2) the four films Religulous, Happy Accidents, Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Metropolis, and possibly (3) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
NEW POSSIBILITIES ON NETFLIX INSTANT VIEWING
*8 1/2
A Crude Awakening
Birth of a Nation
Breaker Morant
*Contact
Dark Days
Faust
Food Inc.
*Happy Accidents
Holy Roller
Robocop
Sherlock Jr.
The Bicycle Thief
The Fly
The Gold Rush
The Last Supper
The Weather Underground
Triumph of the Will
*What Dreams May Come
*Winter’s Bone
OLD POSSIBILITIES ON PHILOSOPHICAL FILMS AND INSTANT VIEWING
*A Clockwork Orange
*Battleship Potemkin
*Being John Malkovich
Bowling for Columbine
City of joy
*Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Hilary and Jackie
*Kadosh
King Corn
*Memento
Metropolis restored
*Mr. Death
*Religulous
SLC punk
*The Corporation
The Education of Shelby Knox
*The Man from Earth
The Thin Blue Line
The Trial
MOVIES IN FALZON’S BOOK
Antz (UTM DVD)
All of me (UTM DVD)
Casablanca (UTM DVD VHS #267)
Clockwork orange (UTM DVD VHS #2111, 3399)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (UTM DVD)
Dr. Strangelove (UTM DVD),
High Noon (UTM DVD VHS #182) (Netflix instant viewing)
Invasion of the body Snatchers (UTM DVD VHS #181)
Matrix (UTM DVD)
Modern Times (UTM DVD, VHS #34, 1780) (archive.org)
Name of the Rose (UTM DVD, VHS #472)
1984 (UTM DVD)
Total Recall (UTM DVD)
Truman Show (UTM VHS #4535)
Twelve Angry men (UTM DVD, VHS #1162)
TREVOR BRITTINGHAM’S LIST (ON NETFLIX)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish) and sequels
The Last of the Mohicans
Red State
Restrepo
The Constant Gardener
Trainspotting
The Big Lebowski
Clerks
The Machinist
Brooklyn's Finest
The Virgin Suicides
The Last Temptation of Christ
Wristcutters: A Love Story
21 Grams
Let the Right One In
Chasing Amy
The Botany of Desire
The Cove
Valhalla Rising
Precious
Session 9
The Burning Plain
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Metropia
Dear Zachary
The High Cost of Living
This Film is Not Yet Rated
The Stoning of Soraya M.