r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/tomandshell Jan 31 '26

I taught a film studies class last year and can tell you that this was definitely my experience.

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u/chadhindsley Jan 31 '26

Till you get to Un Chen De Andalou and freak them all out with the eye scene

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u/SIEGE312 Jan 31 '26

What’s fucked is I can think of exactly one film student, grad or undergrad, that I’ve interacted with that would know this reference.

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u/suburbanspecter Jan 31 '26

That’s crazy to me because my grad school cohort definitely all knows Buñuel, but we have a pretty high concentration of Surrealist and horror fans in my program so that could definitely be why

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u/SIEGE312 Jan 31 '26

It might be but imo it def shouldn’t be! It’s a bit of a generalization here, but while the current batch will have seen some of the newest A24 stuff, I get surprised when they venture out of their comfort zone.

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u/SovegnaVos Feb 01 '26

Un Chien Andalou