Stories of Human Predicament or Growing Wild Strawberries on Sunset Boulevard

Fall (14 hours or more) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Founders Room

NEW

9/29/2017-11/17/2017

9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Fri

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$80.00

8 sessions, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
September 29 through November 17, 2017
DOC House - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $80

Cinematic aspects of the human condition will be explored, such as immigration, lack of community, the glamour and hollowness of celebrity life, everyday Sisyphus struggles, reliving the past via dreams and encounters, some comic relief concerning technology and human ineptness, etc.
Films to be screened:

  • El Norte (1983), dir. by Nava

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), dir. by Resnais

  • High Noon (1952), dir. by Zinnemann

  • Wild Strawberries (1959), dir. by Bergman

  • Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. by Wilder

  • Woman in the Dunes (1964), dir. by Teshigahara

  • Nights of Cabiria (1956), dir. by Fellini

  • Dr. Strangelove (1964), dir. by Kubrick


Note: Some films will have subtitles.

  • There are no required readings for this course, but handouts will be supplied in advance of each film.
Watson, Don

While a student at the Universite de Poitiers, Don Watson discovered the French fascination with American Westerns. He also learned to appreciate the New Wave Cinema. He retired from teaching French and Latin at Hanover High School while he still had a sense of humor. In 1991, he started the Sister City Exchange program between Hanover and Joigny, France. He has an MA from the University of Chicago and an MLS from SUNY-Albany.