Help me assemble a program for a potential film group

I'm thinking about starting a weekly film group out of the art history class I'm in (i.e. I'm TV-less and need an excuse to watch things on a large screen). I'm trying to come up with a list of potential things to screen (the challenge is that I'm organizing it thematically around the class syllabus), but I'm stuck, so feel free to contribute to, or simply chastise, what I've come up with so far. Thanks! (Some stuff - the blob, battle of algiers, peeping tom et al - are stuff brought up in class, so those are kind of set).

Critical Thinking and the Visual Arts (For reference, we watched Sans Soleil in class that week)

La Hora de los Hornos: Notas y Testimonios Sobre el Neocolonialismo, la Violencia y la Liberación (excerpt) – Octavio Getino and Fernando Solanas (1970)

Memories of Underdevelopment - Tomás Gutierrez Alea (1968)

1968/1989/2001: Myths and Legacies - Aesthetics and Politics

La Joli Mai – Chris Marker (1963)

The visual and material culture of art history

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978) – Raul Ruiz

The archive

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The interpretative framework of style, form and iconography

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Marxism, Ideology and the Problem of Knowledge

Strike (1925) – Sergei Eisenstein

Discourse, Representation, Visibility (Invisibility) and the Fragmentation of the Subject

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Feminist Art History and its legacies

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) – Chantal Ackerman

Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Sexuality (thinking about something New Queer Cinema for this...)

Repulsion (1965) – Roman Polanski

Critical Debates in Photography: The Ethics of Spectatorship

Blow Up (1966) – Michaelangelo Antonioni

Historicizing Vision

The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982) – Peter Greenaway

Moving Images: A Short History of Sensation and Affect

The Stendahl Syndrome – Dario Argento (1996)
Peeping Tom – Michael Powell, 1960.
Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock, 1960.
Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock, 1958

The Object

The Blob (1952) – Irvin Shortess Yeaworth, Jr.

Material Culture and the Everyday

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) – Jean Luc Godard

Orientalism and the Challenge to Eurocentric Histories

The Battle of Algiers (1966) – Gillo Pontecorvo

History’s Others/Other Histories

Chocolat (1988) – Claire Denis
La Noire De (1962) - Ousmane Sembene

Postcolonial Globalisation: Prospects for an Emergent Method

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Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts would be an interesting choice for "the archive"

I have more thoughts and suggestions, but my primary question is, what role do the films play in terms of the course? Are they to further demonstrate the critiques of art history by also critiquing these things, or can they demonstrate the issue/critique by being an object of criticism?

The whole course thing is basically just an easy way to not make things entirely arbitrary, with the added advantage that people can approach these films having read/thought something vaguely pertinent to it (in other words, the latter point).

I would actually like to re-watch A Zed and Two Noughts (though I'd sooner re-watch Dead Ringers), and I am inclined to replace the Draughtsman's contract, having already seen it three times in the last few years (the idea is this is just about stuff I want to see anyways). Thanks, though!

Lars Von Trier's "The Idiots" - I always think about in terms of performance art/fetishization of the outsider artist type stuff.

Been mentioned a reasonable amount on ilx recently, but Funeral Parade of Roses might be a good fit for psychoanalysis and sexuality.

It's an interesting list already, but I'll try to give some more thought to your empty categories.

Also, if you want a very long, pretty harrowing watch for that subject, The Other Side of Underneath is bloody amazing.

The archive

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welles' f for fake??

i've only skimmed your list - i can't quite think around the bold subheadings, but it looks fascinating

History’s Others/Other Histories

Chocolat (1988) – Claire Denis
La Noire De (1962) - Ousmane Sembene

i wonder if taiwanese history would be interesting, here; you could pick any of hou's many films, either to zero in on specific periods or contrast over decades - the puppetmaster or three times

gonna think, i feel like some of the headings are really interesting, & Material Culture and the Everyday encapsulates like all american documentaries somehow

aside from the suggestions, btw, this is a great idea, & a great service. it's harder and harder to watch films at home, i find, & better and better to watch them in a social setting.

there's a documentary (short) about the death of Ana Mendieta, that would be good for feminist art history. I'm sure donna or judith would know the title/filmmaker.

Discourse, Representation, Visibility (Invisibility) and the Fragmentation of the Subject

This category confuses me a little, mainly because (the way I'm interpreting it) it covers so much. I could come up with a lot of films that deal with the fragmentation of the subject, but with everything else... oof, I don't know.

Ha, yeah, I'm still note sure what it means, even after having the class (it was pretty much intro to post-structuralism, as if it didn't already cover enough material)

By the way, I didn't come up with any of these headings, they're copied and pasted directly from my course syllabus.

Oh, yeah, I figured that was the case. For the most part I like them, but it sounds like it's trying to cover almost all of the history of theory in a very short time.

I want to recommend some Has (The Saragossa Manuscript or The Hourglass Sanatorium, mainly), but despite them being great and arty and chock-full of theory themselves, but again, I'm not sure where I'd put them. Hourglass Sanatorium could work with fragmentation of the subject, I guess?

You could file this under The Ethics of Spectatorship:

Gimme Shelter (1970) - David Maysles et al.

with the review by Pauline Kael and the directors' response to it.