Showbiz: Amateur Adventures in Film Studies

We do a bit of noticing of dystopian fiction in Alfonso Cuaron's bleak and beautiful Children of Men and George Lucas's confounding THX 1138.

We do a bit of noticing of retro-futurism, accepting your place, and the horrors of paperwork in Brazil directed by Terry Gilliam and Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang.

We do a bit of noticing of urban decay and Cyber Punk in John Carpenter's delightful Escape from New York and Ridley Scott's ground breaking Blade Runner.

We do a bit of noticing of SciFi Horror, secret robots, and flamethrowers with Alien directed by Ridley Scott and The Thing directed by John Carpenter.

We do a bit of learning about the elements of the Science Fiction genre in our third lesson...

We do a bit of noticing of psychological horror and the importance of a good title in Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Don't Look Now directed by Nicolas Roeg.

We do a bit of noticing of the origins of the Slasher genre with Black Christmas directed by Bob Clark and Texas Chainsaw Massacre directed by Tobe Hooper.

We do a bit of noticing of Christmas magic (?) and that George Bailey is kinda an entitled jerk-face in It's a Wonderful Life.