Date: 6 weeks, beginning 2 March, 2017
Tom Shoebridge, the lecturer, worked for many years at the National Film Board. The lectures will include film clips from earlier times. Popcorn will not be served!
The following clips were used to illustrate technique:
- The Great Train Robbery (1903)
- Nanook of the North (1922)
- Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Churchill’s Island (1941)
- Paul Tomkowicz: Street-railway Switchman (1952)
- Paddle to the Sea (1966)
- Pas de Deux (1968)
- The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969)
- The Street (1976)
- The Sand Castle (1977)
- The Wrong Trousers (1993)
- Toy Story (1995)
- The Making of Nemo (2003)
- The King’s Speech
- The Hounds of Notre Dame
The following list of movies, with their file numbers if available in the Almonte Public Library, were suggested by Tom as worth a first or second viewing:
- Shakespeare in Love DVD 30
- Vertigo 54
- Red Violin 81
- To Kill a Mockingbird 99
- The English Patient hj96
- Waking Ned Devine 108
- Shine 34
- Crying Game 82
- Hunt for Red October 179
- Sophie’s Choice 181
- Princess Bride F43
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 243
- The Straight Story 1023
- Casablanca 6
- Gone WithThe Wind 23
- Billy Elliot 296
- North by Northwest 305
- Gandhi 356
- Dr. Zhivago 365
- Life of David Gale 696
- Crash (Paul Haggis) 1257
- Light Between Two Oceans
- Where to Invade Next
- Room
- Broadchurch (season one)
- Manchester by the Sea
