Filmstudies

SPIRITUAL AND MORAL THEMES IN FILMS
KEN BOA
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A PARTIAL LIST OF FILMS
[Red = Films taught] [Blue = Films to be taught next] • = Good synthesis of artistic merit and spiritual themes ••= Great synthesis of artistic merit and spiritual themes ———————— About Schmidt Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein) All Quiet on the Western Front Amacord (Fellini) •Amadeus Amélie (Jeunet) •Babette's Feast(Axel) A Beautiful Mind Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) Ben Hur •Blade Runner (reality, humanity) Blue, White, Red (Krysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy) Braveheart Broadway Danny Rose (WoodyAllen) Bruce Almighty Casablanca ••Chariots of Fire Citizen Kane City Slickers •Close Encounters of the Third Kind •The Color of Paradise (Majidi) ••Crimes and Misdemeanors •Dead Poets Society TheDecalogue, (Kieslowski) The Deer Hunter The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel) Dreams (Kurosawa)

•Enchanted April Forest Gump The Fountainhead Gate of Hell (Kurosawa) •Gladiator The GospelAccording to Matthew (Pasolini) •Grand Canyon Groundhog Day Henry V The Hour of the Wolf (Bergman) Ikiru (Kurosawa) •It’s a Wonderful Life ••Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (Berri) •King of Hearts•La Strada (Fellini) Last of the Mohicans Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais) ••Les Miserables •Life Is Beautiful The Lion King ••The Lord of the Rings Trilogy The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers TheReturn of the King The Magnificent Ambersons •A Man for All Seasons Manhattan •The Matrix Metropolis (Lang, 1927) A Midsummer’s Night Dream (1935) Much Ado about Nothing Nosferantu (Murnau, 1922;Herzog, 1979) O Brother, Where Art Thou? October Sky One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest •The Ox-bow Incident Papillon Pleasantville Rain Man ••Rashomon (Kurosawa) Regarding Henry •Saving Private Ryan TheScarlet Letter (sin, grace, redemption)

•The Searchers The Scent of Green Papaya (Tran) ••The Seven Samurai (Kurasowa) ••The Seventh Seal (Bergman) ••The Shawshank Redemption ••Shindler's List...