Choose one of the following films. Pulp Fiction(Quentin Tarantino), Requiem for a Dream(Darren Arronofsky), Pi(Arronofsky), Memento(Christopher Nolan), Silence of the Lambs(Jonathan Demme), American Beauty(Sam Mendes), Seven(David Fincher), Fargo(The Coen Brothers), El Mariachi(Robert Rodriquez), Bound(The Wachowskis). Rushmore (Anderson) Boyz in The Hood (Singleton) Do the Right Thing (Lee) The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan), Babel (Inarritu), Cronos (del Toro), Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson), Y Tu Mama Tambien(Cuaron) A slightly different format than your film reviews. Research your filmmaker before watching the film. Page 1 Please write a one-page biography about the director of your film. If you have properly researched your director, you should have insight into who they are and what they are about as a person and should notice that in their filmmaking. Biographies must include primary sources cited with the text of the paper. Page 2 is a one-page film review that not only gives us your reaction to the content but ties the biography to the film. When reviewing the film, imagine we just sat down and watched it together and now you are going to open your computer and explain to me what you got out of the film. How does it tie to the unit we are covering? What is significant about the film? How is it different from other films you’ve watched? I don’t care about whether or not you liked the film(I do, but that’s for chat not papers), I want to know what you learned. You need to properly cite the film and any sources both within the text of the paper and on a works cited page. You need to use primary sources not reference sites.
