De Anza Film Class Filmography

I've taken several film classes at De Anza College, and thought it might be interesting to list the films I've seen in class.

Film/TV 2A: History of Cinema (1895-1950), taught by Susan Tavernetti, Fall 2000
Note that the list of early short films is incomplete and may contain errors.

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (Edison Company and William K.L. Dickson, 1894) - short
Sandow, the Modern Hercules (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1894) - short
Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory (Louis Lumière, 1895, France) - short
Tables Turned on the Gardener (Louis Lumière, 1895) - short
Feeding the Baby (Louis Lumière, 1895) - short
Card Game (Louis Lumière, 1895) - short
L' Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat (Louis and Auguste Lumière, 1895, France) - short
Demolition of a Wall (Louis Lumière, 1896) - short
The Kiss (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1896) - short
Pie Eating Contest (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1897) - short
Boxing Cats (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1898) - short
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1898) - short
Voyage to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902, France) - short
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (Edwin S. Porter, 1902) - short
The Great Train Robbery (Edwin S. Porter, 1903) - short
Life of an American Fireman (Edwin S. Porter, 1903) - short
Recued by Rover (Cecil M. Hepworth, 1904, United Kingdom) - short
How Men Propose (Lois Weber, 1913) - short
The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
Composition in Blue (Oskar Fischinger, 1935, Germany) - short
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920, Germany)
Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, Soviet Union) - clip
The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925, Soviet Union)
One A.M. (Charlie Chaplin, 1916) - short
The General (Buster Keaton, 1927)
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927) - clip
Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, 1928) - short
Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929, United Kingdom)
The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939, France)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) - clip
It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) - short
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949, United Kingdom)

Film/TV 2B: History of Cinema (1950-present), taught by Susan Tavernetti, Spring 2001

Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) - clip
Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1946, Italy)
"Do You Trust Your Wife" (with Edgar Bergen, 1956, TV) - clip
Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960, France) - clip
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959, France)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966, Sweden)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
Portrait of Teresa (Pastor Vega, 1979, Cuba)
The Killer (John Woo, 1989, Hong Kong)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir, 1975, Australia) - clip
The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993, Australia)
Lars from 1-10 (Lars von Trier on Dogme95, 1998) - short
The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998, Denmark)
George Lucas in Love (Joe Nussbaum, 1999) - short
Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)

Film/TV 41: Film Genres: The Musical, taught by Gregg Rickman, Winter 2001

An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951)
Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930) - clip
The Old Man of the Mountain (Dave Fleischer, 1933) - short
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) - clip
42nd Street (Lloyd Bacon with Busby Berkeley, 1933)
Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936) - clip
Gay Divorcee (Mark Sandrich, 1934) - clip
Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935)
Wonder Bar (Lloyd Bacon, 1934) - clip
Cabin in the Sky (Vincente Minnelli, 1943)
Carmen Jones (Otto Preminger, 1954)
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) - clip
Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
Bells are Ringing (Vincente Minnelli, 1960) - clip
West Side Story (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, 1961) - clip
A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961, France) - clip
A Hard Days Night (Richard Lester, 1964, United Kingdom) - clip
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Richard Lester, 1966, United Kingdom) - clip
Hair (Milos Forman, 1979)
Damn Yankees! (George Abbott and Stanley Donen with Bob Fosse, 1958) - clip
Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972) - clip
All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
Shall We Dance? (Masayuki Suo, 1996, Japan) - clip
"The Singing Detective" (Jon Amiel with Dennis Potter, 1986, Australia/United Kingdom, TV) - clip
Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964, France)
Everyone Says I Love You (Woody Allen, 1996)

Film/TV 42: National Cinemas: New Chinese Cinema, taught by Susan Tavernetti, Fall 2001

Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993, Mainland China)
Yellow Earth (Chen Kaige, 1984, Mainland China)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, 1990, Mainland China)
Zu: Warriors From the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983, Hong Kong)
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark, 1991, Hong Kong) - clip
Once Upon a Time in China II (Tsui Hark, 1992, Hong Kong) - clip
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) - clip
A Better Tomorrow (John Woo, 1986, Hong Kong)
A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo, 1987, Hong Kong) - clip
Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992, Hong Kong) - clip
A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung, 1987, Hong Kong)
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation (Andrew Chan with Tsui Hark, 1997, Hong Kong) - optional
Swordsman II (Ching Siu-tung, 1991, Hong Kong)
The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993, Taiwan/USA)
The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) - clip
Ashes of Time (Wong Kar-wai, 1994, Hong Kong/Taiwan)
City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989, Taiwan)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000, Mainland China/Hong Kong/Taiwan/USA)

Any comments should be addressed to Mike Weston at mike@misosoup.com.

Filmography links courtesy of IMDb.

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