I'm at Ebertfest--well, technically I'm at the Cafe Kopi watching a live stream of this morning's panel: Do Film Students Really Need To Know Much About Classic Films?
(I just couldn't get myself out of bed after Apocalypse Now last night--fantastic to see it at the Virginia).
Being at Ebertfest makes me feel exuberant. A community forms throughout the filmfest: it must be coming from Roger Ebert and Chaz, who welcome pepole, make
the films themselves, and forms of sociality, discussion, inteaction around the film an amazing thing. There's a kind of 'horizontal feeling' here--that everybody attending is in community with others. So the lack of snobbery, and people's engagement with film, are tremendous parts of the experience. I witnessed strangers strike up friendships with each other over dinner after the film last night, calling across tables to interact and argue over films. How *cool* is that?
Right now the panelists on the workshop are naming the two films they think are non-optional for film students; here's the list (sorry for errors and misattributions):
Richard Leskosky:(to be posted later)
David Bordwell: Early Summer, Sancho the Bailiff
Stephanie Ashton: tT happened One Night, The Good The Bad & The Ugly
Doc: Chinatown, Groundhog Day
Justin Franklin: Apocalypse Now, Clockwork Orange
Richard Neupert: Breathless, Jasper & The Watermelons
Eric Pierson: Godfather, A Face in the Crowd
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