Stories of Human Predicaments or Personal Sonatas in Film

Stories of Human Predicaments or Personal Sonatas in Film

Spring (14 hrs or more) | This course is completed

10 Hilton Field Road Hanover, NH 03755 United States

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4/6/2018-5/18/2018

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

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$80.00

Various aspects of the human condition will be cinematically explored. For example, father and son estrangement, civilians struggling in war torn Italy, returning veterans seeking to resume normal lives, corrupt union bosses affecting dock workers, a cancer patient seeking to understand life, parental neglect and a Royal Princess trying to live a normal life.

Films to be screened:
- The Judge (2014), dir. by Dobkin
- Two Women (1960), dir. by De Sica
- Best Years of Our Lives (1946), dir. by Wyler
- Roman Holiday (1953), dir by Wyler
- On The Waterfront (1954), dir. by Kazan
- Ikiru (1952), dir. by Kurosawa
- Autumn Sonata (1978), dir. by Bergman

Note: Some films will have subtitles.

  • There are no required reading packets or textbooks 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.