Mr. D's "Personal Movie Background"

1. What is the first movie that really made a strong impression on you?  E.T. I remember watching it when I was 5 and I completely freaked out when E.T. got sick and turned white. I haven’t watched the full movie again since.

2. What are 3-4 of your favorite genres? Drama, Indie/Art House, Classics, Gangster/ Crime

3. What are 3-4 of your LEAST favorite genres? Romance, Biography, Musical, Horror

4. What are your 5 favorite films? The Godfather, Synecdoche, New York, The Deer Hunter, Casablanca, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Boyhood, Birdman, Parasite

5. 3 Characteristics of what you consider a good movie. Challenging, Strong Script, Innovative

6. What are some of your least favorite movies? Can't really choose, but they are mostly movies like: Jurassic Park III, Miss Congeniality, 2 Fast 2 Furious

7. List 3 characteristics that you consider to be a bad movie. A soulless money-maker, cheesy/ridiculously poor writing, unoriginal

8. If you have any favorite directors, list them. Martin Scorsese, Jordan Peele, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Charlie Kauffman, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson

9. If you have any favorite actors/actresses, list them: Daniel Day-Lewis, Kate Winslet, Oscar Isaac, Cate Blanchet, Tom Hardy, Leo DiCaprio, Juliette Binoche

10. List 3 films that you consider important films for people to see. The Birth of a Nation, The Tree of Life, The Thin Blue Line

11.  What’s your oldest favorite film? Casablanca

12. What’s the best movie you’ve seen that’s been released in the past 2 years? Hmmm... maybe Aftersun or Drive My Car

13. What are the next five films you really want to see but haven't yet? New Stuff: Oppenheimer, Barbie, Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse, John Wick Chapter 4, MI: Dead Reckoning Part 1

14.  Class Recommendation, according to our criteria:  Short Term 12 (2013):  99% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes (includes before-they-got-popular performances by Brie Larson, Rami Malek, and LaKeith Stanfield) 

Reading List Help?

We added 5 students to "follow" and have their posts show up in our "Reading Lists."  This will help make their work read by more than just me!

I'd like you to ADD 5 student blogs to your READING LIST on blogger. If you were absent or need help with the directions, here's how to do that, with a screencast for additional guidance: 

• 1.  Make sure you go to blogger and log in to your blog.
• 2.  On the left side, if you scroll down, you should see "READING LIST" (under "Settings"). 
• 3.  Click on "Reading List" and click on "Click HERE to enter blogs you'd like to follow..."
• 4.  Click the orange "ADD" tab on the right side
• 5.  When you hear someone talk and you think they've got similar/interesting movie preferences, open a new tab and go to our Canvas home page and click on the link to their blog under "Links to Everyone's Blog."  
• 6.  Copy/Paste the URL to their blog and paste it back where you were working on the reading list where it says "Add Blogs to Follow."  
• 7.  Click "Follow Publicly," and that's it!  REPEAT this process until you're following FIVE (5) different classmate's blogs from our class.  
• Confused?  Here's a screencast that walks through these directions:

Need Help With Setting Up Your Blog?

Here's a screencast I made to help you.  Follow this, but realize that I made it a year or two ago and so the URL you're supposed to create is different from the one I include here.  Remember, your URL is supposed to be FirstNameLastInitialFilmStudiesBlogSpring2022.blogspot.com 

Here's the link to the instructions doc again if you need them.