Dear Readers,
As promised, below you’ll find our summer and fall Film Lit Pitch schedules. Two things will be mostly true about the summer films:
They have a far less direct path to becoming included in a Film Lit class. I’m not saying there’s no chance; I’m saying one would have to get a bit more creative, shall we say, to get them into a high school course. They are, first and foremost, fun films I adore.
Along those lines, to the extent the school-year Pitches have an educational bent to them, these pitches will (probably) be a bit less pedagogically rigorous. Put another way: I’m going to have more fun writing about more-fun films.
Summer 2023 Film Lit Pitch Schedule:
May 31: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
June 14: Pacific Rim (2013)
June 28: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
July 12: Vacation! (As in, I’m on vacation. Do please note that there are three weeks between Pitches.)
July 19: Aliens (1986)
August 2: Star Trek (2009)
Below is the schedule of pitches once we return to the school year.
Film Lit Pitch Phase II, Fall 2023:
August 16: Back to the Future (1985)
August 30: Lady Bird (2017)
September 13: Get Out (2017)
September 27: Moneyball (2011)
October 11: The Lives of Others (2006)
October 25: The Social Network (2010)
November 8: 1917 (2019)
November 29: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
In case you missed anything from Phase I, or—and this point matters—you’d like to help share and spread the word, here are links to the eight Phase I Pitches:
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Thank you for being here in the beginning of this enterprise. I’m eager to see what happens next, and hope you encourage others to join this community.
See you on May 31st, when we discuss Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986).