What films are you guys studying for Narrative?

[Tobias Funke]

Lost in Translation and American Beauty here, which is great because I like them both

[david10d]

Wow, you lucky bastard.


LOL

[shabz.xo]

Inception and The Virgin Suicides

[louiethefly]

Psycho and American Beauty

[tloves]

Animal Kingdom and The Social Network... ahh I enjoyed them both, and they're good to write on, I s'pose.

[Tobias Funke]

Animal Kingdom... I love that film.

Creepiest build-up in that extra slow shot around Mendelsohn

[tloves]

Aha no kidding, I was so nervous throughout the whole thing, it's very clever. I just finished an essay on editing in Animal Kingdom and found there was so much material to write on, it was hard to stop.
I would've liked to do American Beauty though, that's been a favourite film of mine.

I'm curious - what textbooks are you using? Is anyone using the one by Jo Flack?, or the crappy orange and black one (I can't remember who it's by)

[Tobias Funke]

I got new ways and meaning

and the ending was both amusing and surprising at the same time

I really need to pay more attention to the production elements in American Beauty, could probably talk about the dream sequences for a good few paragraphs though.

[dbraid]

We are doing Shutter Island and Strangers On A Train. The latter one I like, the first one I'm not as keen on. What do you guys think of these films?

[tloves]

I got new ways and meaning

and the ending was both amusing and surprising at the same time

I really need to pay more attention to the production elements in American Beauty, could probably talk about the dream sequences for a good few paragraphs though.

Yesss, dream sequences for American Beauty could definitely be analysed to pieces - the reason I asked about the text book you're using is coz the one I'm using mentions American Beauty quite a bit in regards to narrative, and I was pretty disappointed my teacher hadn't chosen that film. I'm trying to learn a few scenes (like the one you mentioned with Ben Mendelsohn) from Animal Kingdom & Social Network pretty much back to front, and hoping that I can just do an in depth discussion of those 3-4 scenes in whatever essay topic I get... then discuss the rest of the film more broadly. Hmm...I hope this is a good tactic

...dbraid I looooved Shutter Island - probably coz I read the book beforehand, but I thought it was a great film and there should be heaps to write about in it. And Hitchcock films always have endless things to write about, plus you'll be able to find heaps of analysis help online and so on

[Tobias Funke]

Any chance you could scan some pages/name the title of the book so i can try find the pdf?

[tloves]

I should be able to get the pdf off my teacher, she wrote the text and has given us the pdf of a few deleted pages. so if I can get it, I can email that to you. I have SACs tomorrow and Friday though, and see her next on Thursday. So I'll try to do it this weekend...

[Joshwahr]

American Beauty
Sam Mendes is a brilliant director and by far Kevin Spacey's best acting role to date!

Two Hands
An Aussie gangster film starring Heath Ledger, also a very good film!

[NuclearTime]

Our class is doing The Dark Knight and Donnie Darko, however I'm considering watching another movie for the exam which is non-linear as I'm really sick of these movies now. 

[tloves]

Try Memento, possibly one of the most nonlinear films ever. Also plenty to write about.