Knowledge of the following films is integral to the discussions we will be having in class (films with an asterisk* will be referenced repeatedly):
Black Panther*
The Godfather*
Inception*
Independence Day
The Lord of the Rings*
Magnolia
Manchester by the Sea*
No Country For Old Men
Sideways
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Star Wars (the original trilogy)*
Thelma & Louise*
To Catch a Thief
Knowledge of these films will help you as they may be referenced by example:
Cast Away
A Christmas Carol
The Devil Wears Prada
Dunkirk
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Frankenstein (1932)
Hamlet
Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harvey
Heat
Jaws*
L.A. Confidential
The Lord of the Rings
Memento
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
The Princess Bride
Pulp Fiction
The Sixth Sense
Speed
Troy (The Iliad)
The Usual Suspects
Wall Street
Other films referenced in class:
Airplane!
Alien
Amadeus
Angels & Demons
Armageddon
Austin Powers
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Babe
Babel
Back to the Future
Barton Fink
Better Off Dead
The Big Short
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Casablanca
Catch Me if You Can
Chinatown
A Christmas Story
Cinderella Man
Clerks
The Da Vinci Code
Deep Impact
The Departed
Die Hard
Dr. Strangelove
Earthquake
Escape From New York
The Fugitive
Ford v Ferrari
Grand Canyon
High Noon
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
JFK
JoJo Rabbit
Jurassic Park
Lawrence of Arabia
Lean on Me
Lethal Weapon 2
Love, Actually
The Matrix*
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Mission: Impossible III
Moonlight
Nashville
Outland
Point Break
The Post
Rear Window
Road House
The Shape of Water
Shrek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Sudden Impact
Superman: The Movie
Syriana
Traffic
War of the Worlds
What Lies Beneath
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Wizard of Oz
Young Frankenstein