Buffalo Film Seminars Goldenrod Handouts
Click on the film titles to download the PDF versions of the informational handouts Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson prepare for the weekly Buffalo Film Seminars discussions. Handouts are posted Monday night before the Tuesday screening. The handouts grew over time: the first season, they were mainly single sheets listing production credits; later, as we began including quotations from filmmakers, comments from critics, and stills from the films, they grew to four or five pages and then to six or seven pages.
The Spring 2007 series consisted of films selected by the audience for a repeat screening. With one exception, the Goldenrod Handouts for all those second screenings are updated from the first and therefore have a slightly different file title (e.g., the file for the Spring 2005 screening of Lawrence of Arabia is lawrence.pdf; the file for the Spring 2007 screening is lawrence2.pdf). The only film in the Spring 2007 series that has the same PDF file as its first screening is Triumph of the Will: the Spring 2000 file was lost, so the PDF for both screenings is the same.
The only other film shown twice in the series—Visconti's Il Gattopardo/The Leopard, which was screened Fall 2001 and Fall 2005—also has two PDF files.
Five files from the Fall 2004 series are missing—Odd Man Out, The Red Shoes, The Misfits, 8 1/2 and Hearts and Minds. We'll try to reconstruct those over the summer.
Goldenrod Handouts are posted to this web site the night before the scheduled screening.
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Spring 2000
William Wellman, THE PUBLIC ENEMY, 1931 (spring 2000)
Lloyd Bacon, 42ND STREET, 1933 (spring 2000)
Frank Capra, IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, 1934 (spring 2000)
Leni Riefenstahl, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL, 1934 (spring 2000)
Sam Wood, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, 1935 (spring 2000)
John Ford, THE GRAPES OF WRATH, 1940 (spring 2000)
Billy Wilder, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, 1944 (spring 2000)
Jean Cocteau, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, 1946 (spring 2000)
Fred Zinnemann, HIGH NOON, 1952 (spring 2000)
Elia Kazan, ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954 (spring 2000)
Orson Welles, TOUCH OF EVIL, 1958 (spring 2000)
Arthur Penn, BONNIE AND CLYDE, 1967 (spring 2000)
Martin Scorsese, RAGING BULL, 1980 (spring 2000)
Akira Kurosawa, RAN (big file) (small file) [screening cancelled: print didn't arrive]
Fall 2000
Jean Renoir, THE GRAND ILLUSION, 1937 (fall 2000) )
Ernst Lubitsch, NINOTCHKA, 1939 (fall 2000)
Otto Preminger, LAURA, 1944 (fall 2000)
Alfred Hitchcock, NOTORIOUS, 1946 (fall 2000)
Joseph Mankiewicz, ALL ABOUT EVE, 1950 (fall 2000)
Stanley Kubrick, PATHS OF GLORY, 1957 (fall 2000)
Federico Fellini, LA DOLCE VITA, 1960 (fall 2000)
Mike Nichols, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, 1966 (fall 2000)
John Schlesinger, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, 1969 (fall 2000)
Bob Fosse, ALL THAT JAZZ, 1979 (fall 2000)
Connie Field, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ROSIE THE RIVETER, 1980 (fall 2000)
Peter Greenaway, THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, 1989 (fall 2000)
Nikita Mikhalkov, BURNT BY THE SUN, 1994 (fall 2000)
Joan Chen, XIU-XIU THE SENT-DOWN GIRL, 1996 [screening cancelled: blizzard]
Spring 2001
King Vidor, THE BIG PARADE,1925 (spring 2001)
Mervyn LeRoy, GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, 1933 (spring 2001)
James Whale, Bride of Frankenstein, 1935 (spring 2001)
Luis Bu?uel, THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, 1962 (spring 2001)
Sergei Eisenstein, IVAN THE TERRIBLE PARTS I & II, 1943 & 1946 (spring 2001)
Vittorio De Sica, BICYCLE THIEVES, 1947 (spring 2001)
Marcel Carné, CHILDREN OF PARADISE, 1945 (spring 2001)
Robert Aldrich, KISS ME DEADLY, 1955 (spring 2001)
Sergio Leone, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, 1968 (spring 2001)
Peter Bogdanovitch, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, 1971 (spring 2001)
William Friedkin, THE FRENCH CONNECTION, 1971 (spring 2001)
John Huston, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, 1975 (spring 2001)
Charles Burnett, KILLER OF SHEEP, 1977 (spring 2001)
Akira Kurosawa, DERSU UZALA, 1974 (spring 2001)
Fall 2001
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, THE GENERAL 1927 (fall 2001)
Georg Pabst, PANDORA'S BOX 1929 (fall 2001)
Mervyn LeRoy, LITTLE CAESAR 1930 (fall 2001)
Ernst Lubitsch TROUBLE IN PARADISE 1932 (fall 2001)
Preston Sturges, SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS 1942 (fall 2001)
Billy Wilder, SUNSET BOULEVARD 1950 (fall 2001)
Henri-Georges Clouzot, LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR/WAGES OF FEAR 1953 (fall 2001)
Charles Laughton, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER 1955 (fall 2001)
Alexander Mackendrick, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS 1957 (fall 2001)
Luchino Visconti, IL GATTOPARDO/THE LEOPARD 1963 (fall 2001)
Bernardo Bertolucci, IL CONFORMISTA/THE CONFORMIST, 1970 (fall 2001)
Nicolas Roeg, DON'T LOOK NOW, 1973 (fall 2001)
Terrence Malick, DAYS OF HEAVEN 1978 (fall 2001)
Terry Gilliam THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN 1988 (fall 2001)
Spring 2002 -
Jan 22 Mervyn LeRoy, LITTLE CAESAR 1930
Jan 29 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING 1945
Feb 5 Nicolas Ray, IN A LONELY PLACE 1950
Feb 12 Akira Kurosawa, RASHOMON 1950
Feb 19 Satyajit Ray, PATHER PANCHALI 1955
Feb 26 Jean-Luc Godard, BREATHLESS 1960
March 5 Robert Rossen, THE HUSTLER 1961
March 12 John Ford, THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE 1962
March 19 Stanley Kubrick DR STRANGELOVE 1964
April 2 Josef von Sternberg, THE BLUE ANGEL 1930
April 9 Lindsay Anderson, IF... 1968
April 16 Robert Altman, NASHVILLE 1975
April 23 Martin Scorsese, MEAN STREETS 1973
April 30 Billy Wilder, SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959
August 27 F.W. Murnau, Sunrise, 1927
September 3 Fritz Lang, M, 1931
September 10 W. S. Van Dyke, The Thin Man, 1934
September17 Rouben Mamoulian, Queen Christina, 1933
September 24 Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game, 1939
October 1 John Huston, The Maltese Falcon, 1941
October 8 Roberto Rossellini, Open City, 1945
October 15 Carol Reed, The Third Man, 1949
October 22 Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story, 1953
October 29 Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus, 1958
November 5 Luis Buñuel, Belle de Jour, 1967
November 12 John Cassavetes, Faces, 1968
November 19 Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch, 1969
November 26 François Truffaut, Day for Night, 1973
December 3 Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975
Fall 2003
Aug 26 Buster Keaton Our Hospitality 1924
Sept 2 Fritz Lang Metropolis 1927
Sept 9 Howard Hawks Scarface 1932
Sept 16 Cedric Gibbons Tarzan and his Mate 1934
Sept 23 David Lean Great Expectations 1946
Sept 30 Jacques Tourneur Out of the Past 1947
Oct 7 Kenji Misoguchi Ugetsu 1953
Oct 14 John Ford The Searchers 1956
Oct 21 Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo 1958
Oct 28 Jean-Luc Godard Le Mépris/Contempt 1963
Nov 4 Martin Scorsese Taxi Driver 1976
Nov 11 Peter Medak The Ruling Class 1972
Nov 18 Andrei Tarkovsky Offret/The Sacrifice 1986
Nov 25 Jim Jarmusch Dead Man 1995
Dec 2 Pedro Almodovar Habla con ella/Talk to Her 2002
Spring 2004
Jan 13 Erich von Stroheim Greed , 1924
January 20 Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930.
January 27 Fritz Lang, You Only Live Once, 1939
February 3 Preston Sturges, The Lady Eve, 1941
February 10 Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, 1941
February 17 William A. Wellman, The Ox-Bow Incident, 1943
February 20 Errol Morris, The Fog of War, 2003 (special presentation)
February 24 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943
March 2 John Houston, The Asphalt Jungle, 1950
March 9 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain 1952
March 23 Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity, 1953
March 30 Akira Kurosawa, Kumonosu jo/Throne of Blood, 1957
April 6 Luchino Visconti, Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and his Brothers, 1960
April 13 Fran?ois Truffaut, Jules et Jim/Jules and Jim, 1961
April 20 Sergio Leone, C'era una volta in America/Once Upon a Time in America, 1984
Fall 2004
August 31 Buster Keaton Sherlock Jr. and Steamboat Bill Jr. 1928
September 7 Gregory La Cava My Man Godfrey 1936
September 14 John Ford My Darling Clementine 1946
September 21 Carol Reed Odd Man Out 1947
September 28 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger The Red Shoes 1948
October 5 Yasujiro Ozu Floating Weeds 1959
October 12 John Huston The Misfits 1961
October 19 Federico Fellini 8 1/2 1963
October 26 Peter Davis Hearts and Minds 1974
November 2 Haskell Wexler Medium Cool 1969
November 9 Terrence Malick Badlands 1973
November 16 Andrei Tarkovsky The Mirror 1974
November 23 Stanley Kubrick Barry Lyndon 1975
November 30 Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather, Part II 1976
December 7 Orson Welles Citizen Kane 1941
Spring 2005
January 18 Carl Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
January 25 Alfred Hitchcock, The 39 Steps 1935
February 1 Howard Hawks, His Girl Friday 1940
February 8 Henri-Georges Clouzot Le Corbeau 1943
February 15 John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948
February 22 Vincente Minelli An American in Paris 1951
March 1 Ingmar Bergman Wild Strawberries 1957
March 8 Andrzej Wadja Ashes and Diamonds 1958
March 22 David Lean Lawrence of Arabia 1962
March 29 John Frankenheimer The Manchurian Candidate 1962
April 5 Sergio Leone The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 1966
April 12 Robert Bresson Lancelot of the Lake 1974
April19 Larisa Shepitko The Ascent 1976
April 26 Akira Kurosawa Ran 1985
Fall 2005
Aug 30 D.W. Griffith Birth of a Nation 1915 (Accompanied on electronic piano by Philip Carli.)
Sept 6 DzigaVertov Man With the Movie Camera/Chelovek s kinoapparatom 1929
Sept 13 Mervyn LeRoy I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang 1932
Sept 20 Howard Hawks Bringing Up Baby 1938
Sept 27 Victor Fleming Gone with the Wind 1939
Oct 4 Akira Kurosawa Stray Dog/Nora Inu 1949
Oct 11 Vittorio de Sica Umberto D 1952
Oct 18 Robert Bresson A Man Escaped/Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut 1956
Oct 25 Luis Buñuel Diary of a Chambermaid/Le Journal d'une femme de chambre 1964
Nov 1 Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Rublev/Andrey Rublyov 1966
Nov 8 Pete Yates Bullitt 1968
Nov 15 Woody Allen Annie Hall 1977
Nov 22 Rainer Werner Fassbinder Marriage of Maria Braun/Die Ehe der Maria Braun 1979
Nov 29 Terry Gilliam Brazil 1985
Nov Dec 6 Luchino Visconti The Leopard/Il gattopardo 1963
Spring 2006
Jan 17 Abel Gance Napoleon 1927
Jan 24 Wu Yonggang The Goddess 1934
Jan 31 Wolfgang Staudte The Murderers are Among Us 1946
Feb 7 Akira Kurosawa The Seven Samurai 1954
Feb 14 Stanley Kramer Inherit the Wind 1960
Feb 21 Gillo Pontecorvo The Battle of Algiers 1965
Feb 28 John Boorman Point Blank 1967
Mar 7 Fred Zinneman A Man for All Seasons 1966
Mar 21 Robert Bresson Au Hazard Balthazar 1966
Mar 28 Richard Brooks In Cold Blood 1967
Apr 4 Ousmane Sembene Xala 1974
Apr 11 Wim Wenders Wings of Desire 1987
Apr 18 Andre Konchalovsky Runaway Train 1985
Apr 25 Karel Reisz The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981
Fall 2006
Handouts are posted to the web site the night before the screening.
Aug 29 Raoul Walsh The Thief of Bagdad 1924 (accompanied on electronic piano by the great Philip Carli)
Sept 5 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, King Kong 1933*
Sept 12 Michael Curtiz Mildred Pierce 1945
Sept 19 no screening
Sept 26 Howard Hawks The Big Sleep 1946
Oct 3 Satyajit Ray, Aparajito/The Unvanquished 1956*
Oct 10 Jean-Pierre Melville Le Samourai 1967*
Oct 17 Roman Polanski Chinatown 1974
Oct 24 Robert Altman M*A*S*H 1970
Oct 31 Fred Zinnemann, The Day of the Jackal 1973*
Nov 7 Emile de Antonio In the Year of the Pig 1969*
Nov 14 Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces 1970
Nov 21 Nicolas Roeg The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976*
Nov 28 Spike Lee Do the Right Thing 1989
Dec 5 Peter Greenaway Prospero's Books 1991Spring 2007
Handouts are posted to the web site the night before the screening
Jan 16 Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton The General 1927
Jan 23 Jean Cocteau, Beauty and the Beast/La Belle et la bête 1946
Feb 3 Georg Wilhem Pabst, Pandora’s Box/Die Büchse der Pandora 1929
(with Philip Carli on electronic piano)
Jan 30 Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will/Triumph des Willens 1935
Feb 13 Jean Renoir, Rules of the Game/La Règle du jeu 1939
Feb 20 Vittorio De Sica, Bicycle Thieves/Ladri di biciclette 1947
Feb 27 Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story/Tokyo monogatari 1953
March 6 Orson Welles, Touch of Evil 1958
March 20 David Lean, Lawrence of Arabia 1962
March 27 Jean-Luc Godard, Contempt/Le Mépris 1963
April 3 Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove 1964
April 10 Sergio Leone, The Good the Bad and the Ugly/Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo 1966
April 17 Robert Altman, Nashville 1975
April 24 Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain 1952Fall 2007
Aug 28 Charlie Chaplin, City Lights 1931
Sept 4 Jean Vigo L’Atalante 1934
Sept 11 William Wyler The Letter 1940
Sept 18 Preston Sturges The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek 1944
Sept 25 Kenji Mizoguchi Sansho the Baliff/Sanshô Dayû 1954
Oct 2 Jean-Pierre Melville Army of Shadows/L’Armée des ombres 1969
Oct 9 Akira Kurosawa Ikiru 1952
Oct 16 Jirí Menzel Closely Watched Trains 1966
Oct 23 Luis Buñuel That Obscure Object of Desire 1977
Oct 30 Werner Herzog Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes/Aguirre: the Wrath of God 1972
Nov 6 Charles Burnett Killer of Sheep 1977
Nov 13 Stanley Kubrick Full Metal Jacket 1987
Nov 20 Woody Allen Crimes and Misdemeanors 1989
Nov 27 Elia Suleiman Divine Intervention/Yadon Ilaheyya 2002
Dec 4 Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1992
Spring 2008
notes are posted one day before screening dates
Jan 15 Mervyn LeRoy GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (1933)*
Jan 22 Jacques Tourneur CAT PEOPLE (1942)*
Jan 29 Irving Rapper NOW,VOYAGER (1942)
Feb 5 Billy Wilder ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
Feb 12 Billy Wilder WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957)
Feb 19 François Truffaut 400 BLOWS (1959)
Feb 26 Masaki Kobayashi HARAKIRI (1962)
Mar 4 Robert Altman MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971)*
Mar 18 Hal Ashby BEING THERE (1982)*
Mar 25 Sydney Pollack TOOTSIE (1982)
Apr 1 Krzysztof Kielslowski The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Apr 8 Jane Campion THE PIANO (1993)
Apr 15 Clint Eastwood UNFORGIVEN (1992)
Apr 22 Ingmar Bergman THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)
Fall 2008Handouts are posted the evening before the screening.
Aug 26 Errol Morris, THE FOG OF WAR 2003
Sept 2 Ernst Lubitsch TROUBLE IN PARADISE 1932
Sept 9 Marx Brothers DUCK SOUP 1933
Sept 16 Michael Curtiz THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD 1938
Sept 23 Jules Dassin BRUTE FORCE 1947
Sept 30 7 Richard Brooks THE PROFESSIONALS 1966
Oct 7 Károly Makk LOVE (Szerelem) 1971
Oct 14 Francis Ford Coppola THE CONVERSATION 1974
Oct 21 Lina Wertmuller SEVEN BEAUTIES 1975s
Oct 28 Elia Kazan A FACE IN THE CROWD 1957
Nov 4 Krzysztof Kieslowski, BLIND CHANCE 1981
Nov 11 Wim Wenders PARIS, TEXAS 1984
Nov 18 Wong Kar Wei IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE 2000
Nov 25 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck THE LIVES OF OTHERS 2006
Dec 2 Stanley Kubrick 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968Spring 2009
Jan 13 Carl Theodor Dreyer Vampyr—Der Traum des Allan Grey 1932
Jan 20 Preston Sturges Sullivan’s Travels 1941
Jan 27 Samuel Fuller Pickup on South Street 1953
Feb 3 Henri-Georges Clouzot Les Diaboliques 1955
Feb 10 Jack Clayton The Innocents 1961
Feb 17 Akira Kurosawa High and Low/Tengoku to jigoku 1963
Feb 24 Jan Kadar & Elmar Klos The Shop on Main Street /Obchod na korze 1966
March 3 Jean-Pierre Melville Le Cercle rouge 1970
March 17 Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye 1973
March 24 Andrei Tarkovsky Nostalghia 1983
March 31 Larisa Shepitko The Ascent/Voskhozhdeniyie 1977
April 7 Warren Beatty Reds 1981
April 14 François Girard 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993
April 21 Pedro Almodóvar All About My Mother/Todo sobre mi madre 1999