Let's Go to the Movies!

I was a total saucy dom-type professor in class today--think Catherine Denueve in The Hunger only not as sexy, immortal or French. I feel bad because I have been very curt slash cantankerous (quite unlike my usual bonny braids self) to my collegiate babies. And I love them so! Really I do. I actually think I have the most amazing students right now. I am going to be spoiled from now on. Future students: you'll never be good enough. And you're ugly.

Sometimes teaching makes me really happy.

I gave one of my classes an article from the new Modern Painters about art school being completely wack and I gave another class an article on the delightfully psychotic art of Yayoi Kusama. I also gave my students a mandatory movie assignment wherein they watch a film of my choosing (teaching is awesome; the fact that I can make someone watch Sleepaway Camp on a whim is true power). I did however notice similarities between most of the movies I assigned.
Lots of them are Spanish (because the Spaniards are dark and unknowable, like a bowl of mystery Paella in a poorly lit cafe) and/or film noir. Maybe I am nostalgic for my Spain dayz now that I am headed to another epicenter of Euro-hedonism. And also because I would fuck the shit out of Luis Bunuel.
So I guess that's what I like in a nutshell (incise a tilda into said nutshell). Here are some of the movies I gave them, the list includes many of my favorite movies as well as some of the more visually inventive movies (in my not-so humble-bloody-Iberian-Peninsula-loving opinion):

-The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
-Labyrinth
-Viridiana
-Los Olvidados
-All About My Mother
-Sunset Boulevard
-Gone With the Wind
-The Haunting
-Perfume de Violetas
-A Streetcar Named Desire
-Waiting for Godot
-Realms of the Unreal
-Vertigo
-8 1/2
-L'Avventura
-Lolita
-The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
-Sleepaway Camp
-Belle Du'Jour
-Curse of the Cat People
-Ghostworld
-Amores Perros
-Badlands
-Breaking the Waves
-Also, two British miniseries: Tipping the Velvet and Tess of the D'Urbervilles (sp?) Melodrama abounds in these two!

There are more but I can't remember them.