ARCHIVED REVIEWS / CLASS NOTES
Paul Michell
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Notes are in PDF format ... from 2014.
updated 24 Jan 2024
2023 Class Notes
The Lady Killers (1955) Mackendrick
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Vivarium (2019) Finnegan
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I Came by (2022) Anyan
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The Last Bus (2021) MacKinnon
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The Ipcress File (1965) Furie
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Laughter in Paradise (1950) Zampi
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The Innocents (1961) Clayton
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Someone to Watch Over Me (1987) Scott
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Deep End (1970) Skolimowski
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This Island Earth (1955) Newman / Arnold
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2022 Class Notes
The Shop around the Corner (1940) Lubitsch
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The Name of the Rose (1986) Annaud
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Goldiggers of 1935 (1935) Berkeley
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Midnight in Paris (2011) Allen
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) Milestone
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Bella / Mostly Martha (2001) Nettlebeck
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Rear Window (1954) Hitchcock
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) Herzog
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Parasite (2019 Boong Joon-Ho
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Stand by Me (1986) Reiner
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2021 Class Notes
Charade (1963) Donen
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A Royal Affair (2012) Arcel
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The Last Picture Show (1971) Bogdanovich
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Eat Drink Man Woman (1991) Lee
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Dames (1934) Enright
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The Straight Story (1999) Lynch
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The Trial (1962) Welles
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Tell No One (2006) Canet
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Volver (2006) Almodovar
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Perfect Strangers / Pefetti sconosciuti (2016) Genovese
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A Simple Favour (2018) Feig
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[Replaced with Perfect Stranger]
2020 Class Notes
The Family Belier / Famille Belier (2014) Lartigau
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The Girl in the Fog (2017) Carrisi
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The Best Offer (2013) Tornatore
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Wake in Fright (1971) Kocheff
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Happy End (2017) Heneke
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Chinatown (1974) Polanski
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Bringing Up Baby (1938) Hawks
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) Hitchcock
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The Naked Kiss (1964) Fuller
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Shock Corridor (1963) Fuller
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Body Heat (1981) Kasdan
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2019 Class Notes
The Party (1968) Edwardes
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Toni Erdmann (2016) Ade.
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Of Mice and Men (1992) Sinese
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Gone Girl (2014) Fincher
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Still Life (2013) Passolini
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Kazan
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The Promise (2016) George
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The Train (1964) Frankenheimer
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The Wages of Fear / La Saliere de la Peur (1953) H G Clouzot
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Chef (2014) Favreau
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2018 Class Notes
Casablanca (1942) Michael Curtiz
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Written on the Wind (1956) Douglas Sirk
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Nightcrawler (2014) Gilroy
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Five Easy Pieces (1970) Rafelson
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) Assayas
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) Hamer
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The Ipcress File (1965) Furie
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The Court Jester (1955) Frank & Panama
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CLASS NOTES - 2017
Lavender Hill Mob (1951) Crichton
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La Verite (1960) H G Clouzot
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The Cruel Sea (1953) Frend
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Knock on Wood (1954) Frank & Panama
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Le Mepris / Contempt (1963) Godard
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The Searchers (1956) Ford
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A Face in the Crowd (1957) Kazan
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The Big Carnival / Ace in the Hole (1951) Wilder
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Them! (1954) Douglas
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CLASS NOTES - 2016
Take the Money and Run (1969) Allen
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The Exterminating Angel (1962) Bunuel
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Throne of Blood (1957) Kurosawa
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The Hunt (2012) Vinterberg
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Marathon Man (1976) Schlesinger
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Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) (1964) Demy
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Safety Last (1923) Lloyd & The Navigator (1924) Keaton – Two Silent Masterpieces
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CLASS NOTES - 2015
Heaven Can Wait (1943) Ernst Lubitsch
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Blue Jasmine (2013) Woody Allen
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Ugetsu monogatari (1953 ) Kenji Mizoguchi
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The Conformist (1970) - Bernardo Bertolucci
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After the Wedding (2006) Susanne Bier
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The Gold Rush (1925) Charles Chaplin
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Imitation of Life (1959) Douglas Sirk
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Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
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CLASS NOTES - 2014
North by Northwest (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
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Kamderschaft / Comrades (1931) G W Pabst
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Footlight Parade (1933) Lloyd Bacon / Busbby Berkeley
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White Heat (1949) Raoul Walsh
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One, Two, Three (1961) Billy Wilder
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Deep End (1970) Jerzy Solimowski
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Black Narcissus (1947) Michael Powell & Emmerich Pressburger
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Tokyo Story (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
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To Be or Not To Be (1942) Ernst Lubitsch
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CLASS NOTES - 2013
Notorious (1946) Hitchcock
Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Fassbiner
The Dinner Guest / L'invite (2007) Bouhnik
Goodbye Lenin (2003) Becker
Red Desert (1964) Antonioni
Tin Drum, The (1979) Schlondorff
Sex and Lucia (2001) Medem
Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) Edel
Rashomon (1950) Kurosawa
Chorus, The (2004) Barratier