Date: 5/4/01
1. Schedule of events--click here
2. Syllabus and other important documentation:
a. Course
Syllabus
b. Film
Festival Analysis Assignment
c. Addendum
to Feedback on Individual Journals
d. Imaging
Cleveland Assignment
3. Master list of class Questions for Guests
a. "Cleveland on Film," The Plain Dealer, 1991
b. "Projecting the Right Image," The Plain Dealer, 1995
c. "Interview with David Wittkowsky" from The Film Festival Guide, 1998
d. "Stranger
Than Paradise and the First Golden Age" from
Spike,
Mike, Slackers and Dykes, John Pierson, 1995
e. "Roger
and Michael and Me" from Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes,
John Pierson,
1995
f. "Go,
Ohio! A powerhouse home team heads for Sundance Festival,"
The Plain
Dealer, 2001--Robert Banks has a short film at Sundance!
g. Read about Jason Tomaric and
the progress of his digital feature "One"
in several
Plain
Dealer articles:
March
25, 1998
September
4, 1998
November
28, 1999
August
3, 2000
h. Read about Cleveland Film
Society/Cleveland International Film Festival
Executive
Director David Wittkowsky in several Plain Dealer articles:
A
Sunday
Magazine bio., May 11, 1997
Going
to Sundance, January 21, 1999
On
the state of gay cinema, August 15, 1999
i. "Lights, camera--Cleveland!", The Plain Dealer, January 2001
j. "Screening Meemies," Cleveland Scene, January 2001
k. Films with area locations
(from the Internet Movie Database, IMDb):
Films
with a Cleveland location (n=40)
Films
with a Cleveland Heights location (n=2)
Films
with a Municipal Stadium location (n=2)
l. "Manchild in the Promised Land," The Plain Dealer, January 2001
m. "A
Feast of Pop Culture," a March 2001 cover story from
Northern
Ohio Live featuring the Cleveland Film Festival's
25th anniversary.
. . and with distinctive photos of
David Wittkowsky.
n. Several articles tracing the
founding of the Greater Cleveland
Film Commission
by Chris Carmody:
Crain's
Cleveland Business, January 5, 1998
The
Plain Dealer, March 25, 1998
The
Plain Dealer, March 25, 1999
o. Two articles that report on
Michael Whitely's activities post-"Shooting Star":
The
Plain Dealer, March 21, 1999
AP
wire, December 26, 2000
p. News about Ford Agency director
Karen Fields, and her three
sons' Hollywood
activities:
The
Plain Dealer, February 2, 1997
The
Plain Dealer, March 14, 1999
The
Plain Dealer, July 19, 2000
q. The Film Commission Perspective--materials
supplied by Lesley Ward,
Vice President
of Film Commission Services for the Greater Cleveland
Media Development
Corporation, Greater Cleveland's Film Commission:
GCMDC's
Northern Ohio Filmography
Crain's
Cleveland Business, September 18-24, 2000
The
Plain Dealer, June 10, 2000
Location
Update, July 1999
New
York Times, May 18, 1998
Film
and Video, January 1999
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, September 9, 1997
r. Two sources that show the
important contributions of Jonathan Forman
to the Cleveland
film scene:
"Jon
Forman's Baby Turns 25" (provided by Mr. Forman, from the
Plain Dealer, March 9, 2001)
The
Plain Dealer, December 31, 1999 (the PD selects Mr. Forman
as one of "those who have shaped our lives" at the end of the millenium)
s. Materials provided by John
Ewing, demonstrating the significance
of the Cleveland
Cinematheque to the regional film scene:
"Film
for All," Cleveland Institute of Art magazine (date unknown)
Cleveland
Edition, July 30, 1987
Cleveland
Magazine, October 1995
t. Article that describes an
example of the type of jobs done by
Cinecraft--a
corporate video for Ernst and Young:
Crain's
Cleveland Business, April 6, 1998
u. Articles about the evolution
of the Ohio Independent Film Festival
(from its
early days as the Off-Hollywood Flick Fest):
The
Plain Dealer, March 27, 1997
Crain's
Cleveland Business, May 29, 2000
v. "Breaking news"!!
1.
"Proximity" premieres on Cinemax (The
Plain Dealer, April 14, 2001)
2.
Robert Banks' works are featured in a retrospective at the
Cinematheque (The
Plain Dealer, April 21, 2001)
3.
David Wittkowsky resigns as head of the Cleveland Film Society
(The Plain
Dealer, April 20, 2001)
w. Joanna Connors of the PD chronicles
the "Welcome to Collinwood" shoot:
The
Plain Dealer, April 15, 2001
The
Plain Dealer, April 21, 2001
x. IMAGING
CLEVELAND Movie Reviews, by The Class
(REQUIRED
reading; make a special entry in your journal about the reviews
as a body
of work)
more to come. . . ?
a. Cleveland Film Society & Cleveland Filmmakers
b. Ohio Independent Film Festival
c. Greater Cleveland Film Commission/Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation
g. MDI
h. Films by Robert Banks as featured at Opensewer.com
i. Jason Tomaric and the production
of the digital feature "One":
Jason
Tomaric's website
The
Digital Post Production site has a feature story on "One"
The
Force Net (Star Wars fan site) has bogus story on "One"!
j. Guerrilla
Productions (Bruce Pattison's company) produces
"niche" digital
videos and markets them straight-to-video
k. Ohio
Film Commission (look under "Picture Ohio" to find lists of
films shot
predominantly in Ohio and celebrities who came from Ohio)
l. ifilm.com
is a clearinghouse for "films" presented and/or promoted
via the Internet--Bruce
Pattison asks that we check out the short, "405"
m. North
Coast Stunts and Movie Extras Assn., headed by Ray Szuch,
provides stunt
performers and extras for films and videos shot in
Cleveland.
They've provided personnel both for "local" productions
such as "Nightowls
of Coventry," "One," and "Rock Robbers," and
for national
projects such as "The Drew Carey Show," "Traffic,"
"Proximity,"
and "Unbreakable."
n. Filmedincleveland.com,
a site recommended by Ray Szuch, attempts
to link people
and organizations interested in filming in Cleveland
o. Jonathan Forman's Cleveland
Cinemas include non-traditional
venues such
as the Cedar-Lee Theater. Please read the interesting
"History and
Philosophy" section.
p. For over 60 years, Cinecraft
has produced "industrial" films
and commercials
for corporations large and small.
q. So you thought there were
no serious film venues on the West Side. . .
check out
Cleveland
Filmworks, founded by Jillian Davis, George Carr,
and Randy
Rollison as a vehicle to show art & independent film,
together with
selected revivals of classic works, on Cleveland's West Side.
r. Local independent filmmaker
Chris Young was our guest in the studio. . .
Read about
him at the website for his company, Video
Verite Productions.
s. Columns written by our guests
from the Akron Beacon-Journal,
George Thomas
and Chuck Klosterman, may be accessed by going to the
Beacon-Journal
site and then entering each critic's name in the Search box
(found in
the left frame after scrolling down). Try to read a few columns for
each guest
(there are hundreds listed).
t. Writer Les
Roberts shared with us his wisdom garnered from decades of writing
for television
and from the successful publication of 20 novels. Check out his personal
website!
more to come. . . ?
a. Thrillers/Suspense:
de Wied, M. (1995).
The role of temporal expanctancies in the production of film suspense
and emotions watching movies.
Poetics,
23,
107-123.
b. Documentaries:
Chapter 9 ("Documentary")
from: Giannetti, L. (1987). Understanding movies
(4th ed.),
Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall.
c. American Independents:
Introduction and Chapter
1 ("The New American Independent Cinema") from:
Levy, E. (1999). Cinema
of outsiders: The rise of American independent film.
New York: New York
University Press.
d. Ten Percent Cinema:
Chapter 12 ("The New Gay
and Lesbian Cinema") from: Levy, E. (1999).
Cinema of outsiders:
The rise of American independent film.
New York: New York
University Press.
e. New German Cinema:
Selected sections (see Dr.
N.) from: Corrigan, T. (1994). New German cinema:
The displaced image
(rev. ed.). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
f. Outsiders:
Chapter
2 ("Cinema of Outsiders") from: Levy, E. (1999). Cinema
of outsiders:
The rise of American
independent film. New York: New York University Press.
g. Women and Film:
Chapter
10 ("Female/Feminist Sensibility") from: Levy, E. (1999).
Cinema of outsiders:
The rise of American independent film. New York:
New York University Press.
h. Mental Health:
Chapter 1 ("Typology, Mythology,
Ideology") from: Gabbard, K., & Gabbard, G. O.
(1987). Psychiatry
and the cinema. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.