Category Archives: films
Finding D.O.A. (1950)
If you’re looking for the classic later film noir, D.O.A. on Netflix to watch for Tuesday, you might have a tougher time finding it than you should. This is because Netflix lists it as Film Noir Collection: D.O.A. so that a search for “D.O.A.” gets you the remake with Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid and lots and lots of concert films of the punk rock band of the same name. A search for “film noir d.o.a.” or this link will get you what you’re looking for.
But there are other options. D.O.A. is available for streaming or download on the Internet Archive and for streaming on Google Video. Here it is for streaming but a higher quality version is available for download at the link above.
Recommended and Required Movies Free Online
Thanks to Professor Eversley, whom some of you know, I am now aware of a site where some of our recommended and required viewings are available for free. You may need to install a plugin to watch them, however. If that’s the case, you’ll need to follow the links right below the viewer window to install DivX. You may not be able to do so if you are in a computer lab.
You can watch Double Indemnity (1944) (required for next Thursday) and Blue Velvet (1986)(recommended for this Thursday) on stagevu.com for free. Click on the poster images above to visit the site and watch the movies.
Going forward, movies available on stagevu.com will be linked from the calendar page.
Fritz Lang’s “M” (1931) full length
Here’s one of our assigned films for Thursday, Fritz Lang‘s 1931 thriller M in its entirety. Click in the video window once the video is playing to watch it on the YouTube site. Of course, watching it on DVD will likely be a better experience, but this will do in a pinch. You can also watch the movie or download it from the Internet Archive.
Un Chien Andalou (1929), Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali
Un chien Andalou (1929)
A classic of surrealist cinema, this famous 16 minute film by Louis Buñuel and Salvador Dali contains what many film critics and historians consider to be the most viscerally evocative images ever put on film, including a notorious opening sequence often regarded to be among the most shocking and disturbing moments in movie history.
Draculas
For our discussion today, here’s the trailer for the 1938 rerelease of Universal’s Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning. The whole film is available in parts on Youtube and for instant streaming in Netflix.
Here is a trailer for Francis Ford Coppola‘s 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Note how this trailer emphasizes the truly supernatural qualities of the vampire that Phillips says made the 1931 version particularly terrifying to contemporary audiences.
And here is the full version of Murnau’s 1922 expressionist take on the famous vampire, Nosferatu (1922), which was discussed in some detail in our reading:
Note the difference in appearance between . . .
Max Schreck’s Dracula in Murnau’s film and
Bela Lugosi’s dapper aristocratic Dracula in Browning’s. We’ll discuss Phillips’ take on this difference in class.