We’ll finish our much belated film experiment on Monday in class, then talk about the Biopic films with the following readings. I think you’ll particularly enjoy the second one, but it is long, so it’s also optional.
We’ll finish our much belated film experiment on Monday in class, then talk about the Biopic films with the following readings. I think you’ll particularly enjoy the second one, but it is long, so it’s also optional.
OHS Film & History 
Man on Wire
The Queen
The Throne (2015), highlighting the infamous life and death of Crown Prince Sado of Joseon
The Imitation Game (2014), Alan Turing and his team inventing the “first” computer to decode the Enigma during WWII
Marie Antoinette (2006), reimagining the life of the last queen of France before the French Revolution
Yves Saint Laurent (2014), highlighting the career of the famous French fashion designer
Grace of Monaco (2014), showing the challenges Grace Kelly faced in her Cinderella story
The Theory of Everything (2014), highlighting the early life of the famous physicist Stephen Hawkings
Jobs (2013) AND Steve Jobs (2015), Apple’s Steve Jobs shown through different actors
Catch Me If You Can (2002), life of Frank Abagnale and how he gets to work for the FBI
Loving Vincent (2017), highlighting the life and death of Vincent Van Gogh as an artist
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Man on Wire (2008),
Bronson (2008), a biographical film about Michael Peterson, an incredibly violent English criminal who spends his time in solitary confinement making surrealist artwork.
The End of the Tour (2015), which details an interview with David Foster Wallace at the end of his Infinite Jest book tour.
Carlos (2010), a biographical film about Ilich Ramirez Sanchez and his involvement in violent left-wing activist groups.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), a biographical film which depicts the absurdity and sadness of Hunter S. Thompson’s drug-fueled road trip to Las Vegas, and the death of 1960s counterculture.
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The Darkest Hour
Downfall
Lincoln
Schindler’s List (kind of a biopic)
Gandhi
Patton
The Imitation Game
The Blind Side
A Gray State
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Man on Wire
Alexander Nevsky
Really enjoyed Man on Wire because of how it would cut between different times in the story to keep the suspense. Alexander Nevsky was also really good because it was a Biopic, but shot through the lens of soviet propaganda.
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Man on Wire
The Queen
Catch me if you Can
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