Since we didn’t see the trailer in class, check out the NYtimes review of I’m Reed Fish, and you can see the “youtubbed” trailer here. The Tristram Shandy website (for the film), much like the movie, is an interesting–and at times maddening– experiment. I like the tagline: “He’s about to play the role of his life.”
I have also included two of the available screenplays for downloading:
Others can be found on The Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb).
Lastly, I have also included a succinct Glossary of Film Terminology, written and compiled by John Golden, which provides the appropriate language necessary in order to analyze the stylistic and narrative elements of film.
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when are our notes on a movie due?
Since the First Draft of the essay is due this Friday (10/26), I will assume that you have watched the movie by this date, and I will check your notes in class. I also want to give you time on Friday to collaborate with other students who have seen the same movie.
OH OH! so I just saw this movie, Meet The Robinsons, and after watching it I was wondering if it worked with all of the other movies you allowed. It’s about time travel and how the characters intertwined with eachother (okay that might not be the point of this disney movie, but I saw it this way and that’s how I interpreted it).
It’s disney, it’s animated, but it’s really cute and the end is really cool because it un-veils so many hidden parts. For example, people from the future bump into people in the past that are connected eventually, to those people from the future but of course they don’t know at that moment. Anyways, I just wanted to recommend this movie, even though it’s animated, it’s cute.
ps. I watched this with my little brother…that’s why I was watching it in the first place.
I was working on my ‘Meta-Cine’ essay and began thinking a little bit about the role of Donald Kaufman in Adaptation and his relationship with Charlie Kaufman and there were a few things that hit me. The one i wanted to blog about is how similar Charlie Kaufman and Holden are to each other, in fact they are so similar and they both use so many of the same meta-fictional characteristics that i almost think that a more compelling essay could have been written comparing Adaptation to Catcher instead of SH5. It’s just a thought, maybe in the future the option of comparisons to Catcher could be a possibility, it would be a lot of fun as well.
I think that this would be a solid comparison, or one could make a strong argument simply for Holden as a postmodern hero. But I think that Vonnegut’s style, ideas, and subject matter give us the most opportunities to compare it to a lot of different films. Part of the fun (I think) is letting students choose which film(s) to study. Donald always makes me think of Kilgore, and how both writers (Charlie, Kurt) use their alter-egos to their advantage.