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You are a film professor...


Which movie (and why) do you screen for your class?

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Rope (1948) because my film prof made us go through this one and I still have the notes. Easy days work right there.

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The French Connection to show how a great action/thriller is done.

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The Freshman with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando. Many scenes take place in a film studies class with a pompous fool professor. It would be an example of everything wrong with so many film critics, and what to avoid in film study.

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Wow that's a tough one.

I'd have to choose The Shining, because there's just so much to discuss, things to interpret, and theories to bounce around.

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the thing 1982

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Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste. I think it really shows what you can accomplish with very little resources and a whole lot of passion and ingenuity.

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2001: A Space Odyssey, of course, since it's the greatest film ever made. It's a transcendental film which changed forever the way movies are made.

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Hot Shots Part Deux.

It's a pretentious classic.

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