Tamas Nagypal

This class had so much potential to be interesting, but Tamas' lack of intonation and incredibly dense slide shows make this the most boring class I've ever taken. Additionally all of the content in this course and it's follow up course (MPF 427) is repeated later in Film Theory MPF 505, rendering this class obsolete.

Tamas will teach you what you need to know but you need to attend all lectures and pay attention. You genuinely need to try on assignments since each is weighted heavily. I think what he teaches is important and he isn't necessarily a bad teacher, but the content is naturally confusing. Who even understands film anyway?

This prof has zero experience. Everything he teaches is right out of the text book. He takes forever to grade. His quizzes are worded differently than the notes you take, trying to trick you. He's setting you up for failure. Assigns a movie to watch when he could just assign a part of the clip. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE. DO NOT TAKE.

Took CIN379 Hungarian Cinema with Prof. Nagypal at UofT. He is passionate about the subject and has such vast, personal knowledge about Eastern European Cinema. He is also kind and understanding and is very responsive in providing resources that can better help students understand the subject / or to advance in their assignments in general.

His lectures are very difficult to follow as he has little to no inflection in his voice and presents in front of a bland slideshow for three hours. He is very willing to give out extensions as needed, and his exams are open book and take home which is nice, but overall his teaching style is very ineffective.

The professor stutters in class and his explanations are inaudibles and useless. He is tough when grading essays and group assignments. I do not recommend taking his courses.