Good suggestion.
BOTH of those movies have been on my list for a long time, and I’ve never seen either of them. My son is a cinephile and a massive Lynch fan. I’ll suggest this double-feature to him for the next time we have movie night. I’ll bet he’ll like that.
I just watched an interesting movie called “The World, The Flesh, and The Devil,” from 1959, starring Harry Belafonte. It is thought to be the first post-nuclear holocaust film, where Belafonte is trapped in a mine for a few days, and when he digs his way out, the entire world has been wiped out by a nuclear holocaust.
It’s not the greatest movie ever, with some occasional weak writing, and questionable acting, but it was still an entertaining watch just the same. One of those 6/10 movies that is somehow still compelling.
Wow, compelling. /S
I always recommend the Alfred Hitchcock films from the 40s & 50s, but especially the color films from the 50s, and ESPECIALLY Rear Window, which is a prime example of a perfect movie. There us not a bad movie among them; in fact, every one of them is at least an 8, and many of them are genuine 10s, including:
Lifeboat
Rebecca
Strangers on a Train
Notorious
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window
North by Northwest
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Rope
Vertigo
Pyscho
That was the perfect opportunity to teach the first step of The Scientific Method. The next step was the Hypothesis - what do you think will happen, based on the scientific knowledge you already have?
Then you have to Plan The Experiment, which in this case, would probably really energize the students’ brain power. They’ll LOVE figuring out this experiment. I would bet that EVERY student would be engaged in this one.
It’s the Doing The Experiment that might be problematic, and end up with the teacher explaining themselves to the School Board: “All I can say is, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I guess you had to be there.”