Sumários

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014) and the homme fatale

19 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 José Alberto Olivença Duarte

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014) and the homme fatale. Discussion of the film and discussion of some of the positive and negative aspects of the North-American Cinema course. 


Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)

17 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 José Alberto Olivença Duarte

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014). Hand in of the final essays. Beginning of discussion of the film.


Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)

12 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 José Alberto Olivença Duarte

Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004) - discussion of some of the most important aspects of the film: the city; man vs community; isolation and alienation. Noir characteristics and their combination with other genres and subgenres. Some of these issues will be discussed in next class to establish a connection with the last film of the course to be discussed. 


Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004)

10 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 José Alberto Olivença Duarte

Concluding remarks about Femme Fatale. Beginning of the discussion of  Collateral (Michael Mann, 2004).


Femme Fatale (Brian de Palma, 2002)

5 Dezembro 2019, 16:00 José Alberto Olivença Duarte

Femme Fatale (Brian de Palma, 2002) - noir in the new millennium. The importance of the double, the revisionist noir and the rewriting of the idea of the femme fatale. The ending of the film will be discussed in the next class.