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FILMNOTES.COM
My love for film was instilled while I was very young. A chance viewing on Potemkin on Iowa Public Television changed my perception of movies forever. Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and Gilliam's "Brazil" along with Hallström's "My Life As A Dog" were films that impacted me early in my relationship with film. Then as a teen a steady diet of B-films was broken from time to time by "Taxi Driver" or "Eraserhead" or "400 Blows." Then college hits and I dive into Truffaut and Bergman. I move to Boulder where Brakhage is a presence that further challenges the way the head perceives film. I am thankful to Stan's talks and teaching. I am thankful to the Boulder Public library: both it's library of VHS tapes which I checked out over and over again AND it's film series which introduced me to so many films and directors along the way. Also thankful to the film program at the University of Colorado. To the First Person Film series there. To the International Film Series. The the Program Council films that ran on campus. And to so many great instructors: Bruce Kawin, Marian Keane, and Virgil Grillo to name a few.
FILM NOTES was originally a book I hoped to write using the notepads filmed with notes I took while watching hundreds and hundreds of films. When I began doing web work in the late 90's I bought FILMNOTES.COM and have had some type of site here ever since.
Right now I've divided the site into various syllabi for courses in film I'd love to teach. I'm still tweaking and fine tuning (and surely will for many years to come). I hope you are able to use some of these lists
and notes as guides in your journey through film.
Thanks for stopping.
Matthew Hundley
matthew@filmnotes.com
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