Films mentioned in Class

While doing RTF homework today, 3 of the films Mr. K mentioned in class were discussed in the textbook: Blow Up (which I think we are going to be discussing), Diary of a country priest and WR: Mysteries of the Organism. The first two were mentioned on the discussion of film auteur, in which the director is compared to the author of the novel in that his camera is his pen and the cast and crew are mere instruments in the director’s vision. A good example of this would be films by Scorsese. If you have seen The Departed, then you know you didn’t watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Departed, or Matt Damon’s The Departed, you watched Scorsese’s The Departed. The third film was mentioned in the discussion on films from the 1960s banned due to political associations. None of this has anything to do with this class but I thought it was interesting that the specific films Mr. K mentioned are all considered critical parts of film history.