Film History Week 11

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• Film History Week 11
• Dr. Lavery
• The Sixties Explosion

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Nouvelle vague/New Wave Resnais Camus Rohmer
Godard Malle Truffaut
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• Alain Resnais (1922- )
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Hiroshima, Mon Amour

French
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• Marcel Camus (1912-1982)
• Black Orpheus

French
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Éric Rohmer(1920- ) La Collectionneuse (The
Collector) Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night with
Maud) Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee) L'Amour
l'après-midi (Chloe in the Afternoon, Love in the
Afternoon) Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise
of O) Le Signe du lionLa Femme de l'aviateur (The
Aviator's Wife) Le Beau marriage (A Good
Marriage) Pauline à la plage (Pauline at the
Beach) Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) Conte de
printemps (A Tale of Springtime) Conte d'hiver (A
Winter's Tale) Conte d'été (A Summer's Tale)
Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale)
French
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• Jean-Luc Goddard (1930- )
• Breathless
• Weekend
• The Chinese
• Masculine/Feminine
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her

French
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Jean-Luc Godard The cinema is not an art which
films life the cinema is something between art
and life. Unlike painting and literature, the
cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and
I try to render this concept in my films.
Literature and painting both exist as art from
the very start the cinema doesnt. All you
need for a movie is a gun and a girl. "Movies
should have a beginning, a middle and an end,
harrumphed French filmmaker Georges Franju. . .
." "Certainly," replied Jean-Luc Godard. "But not
necessarily in that order."
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French

• Louis Malle (1932-1995)
• The Lovers
• A Very Private Affair
• Murmur of the Heart
• Pretty Baby
• Atlantic City
• Au revoir les enfants
• My Dinner with Andre
• Damage

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• François Truffaut (1932-1984)
• 400 Blows
• Jules and Jim
• Day for Night
• Shoot the Piano Player

French
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• New Wave
• The impact of Alexandre Astruc cinema as the
  art of the age camera-stylo camera-pen
• André Bazins influence Cahiers du Cinema
• The break with literature
• Location shooting
• New approach to acting
• Independence from studios
• The centrality of the director (birth of the
  auteur theory)

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The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003)
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• Truth Cinema
• Free Cinema
• Cinéma Vérité

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Kino-Eye Man with a Movie Camera (Dizga Vertov,
1929)
(Vertov, 1896-1954)
Life caught unaware
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• Free Cinema
• Documentary film movement originating in England,
  1956-1959
• Spawned by the journal Sequence.
• Founders Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony
  Richardson, Andersons motto "No Film Can Be Too
  Personal.
• Governing principles
• Freedom of propaganda
• Obliviousness to box office appeal.
• Embrace of the filmmakers freedom
• Ordinary people and everydaynessthe primary
  focus
• The image speaks. Sound amplifies and comments.
• Size is irrelevant.
• Perfection is not an aim.
• An attitude means a style. A style means an
  attitude.

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• Cinéma Vérité
• AKA Direct Cinema
• Documentary filmmaking style that began in the
  1950s/early 1960s Technologically inspiredby the
  advent of lightweight portable cameras and
  sync-sound equipment to capture events as they
  happen on location, without a script
• Inspirations Lumiere Brothers, Vertov,
  Neo-Realism, Free Cinema
• Key Americans D.A. Pennebaker, Albert and David
  Maysles, and Richard Leacock

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• Cinéma Vérité
• Direct vs. Vérité According to Erik Barnouw
  (Documentary)
• direct cinema hopes to find a crisis while
  shooting cinéma vérité wishes to precipitate
  one
• Direct cinema an invisible observer
  (Leacocks "the fly on the wall") cinéma vérité
  an unabashed participant
• For both filming events as they transpire leads
  to what Rouch has called a "privileged moment,"
  in which a truth about the subject of the film is
  revealed. To what extent the presence of the
  camera affects the real-life situation, and thus
  compromises this truth, has been a hotly debated
  issue.
• --Thanks to Baseline Encyclopedia of Film

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Underground/Experimental Film
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Maya Deren (1917-1961)

• Meshes of the Afternoon
• Ritual in Transfigured Time
• Divine Horseman

Russian-American
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• Stan Brakhage (1933-2003)
• Dog Star Man

American
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• Andy Warhol(1928-1987)
• Empire
• Sleep
• Bw Job
• Eat

American
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• Jordan Belson (1926- )
• Transmutation
• Mandala
• Re-Entry
• Samadhi
• Cosmos
• Chakra
• Music of the Spheres

American
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Directors Active in the 1960s
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• Alfred Hitchcock (1889-1980)
• Rear Window
• Rope
• Notorious
• Spellbound
• North by Northwest
• Vertigo
• Psycho
• The Birds

British-American
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Arthur Penn (1922- )

• The Left-Handed Gun
• The Miracle Worker
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Alices Restaurant
• Little Big Man

American
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John Cassavetes (1929- )

• Faces
• Husbands
• A Woman Under the Influence
• Gloria

American
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Mike Nichols (1931- )

• Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf
• The Graduate
• Angels in America
• Charlie Wilsons War

German-American
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Robert Altman (1925-2006)

• MASH
• Brewster McCloud
• McCabe and Mrs. Miller
• Nashville
• Three Women
• The Player

American
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Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984)

• Ride the High Country
• The Wild Bunch
• Straw Dogs
• The Getaway
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

American
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• Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)
• This Sporting Life
• If
• O Lucky Man!

British
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• Ken Russell (1927- )
• Women in Love
• The Music Lover
• Lisztomania
• Tommy
• Altered States
• Savage Messiah

British
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• John Schlesinger (1926-2003)
• Midnight Cowboy
• Sunday Blood Sunday
• The Day of the Locust
• Marathon Man

British
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• David Lean (1908-1991)
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Doctor Zhivago
• Bridge Over the River Kwai
• A Passage to India

British
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• Roman Polanski (1933- )
• Repulsion
• Knife in the Water
• Chinatown
• Macbeth

Polish-American
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• Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
• The Seventh Seal
• Wild Strawberries
• Persona
• Through a Glass Darkly
• Fanny and Alexander

Swedish
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• Luis Bunuel (1900-1983)
• Un Chien Andalou
• Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise
• Viridiana
• The Exterminating Angel
• Belle je jour
• That Obscure Object of Desire

Spanish
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• Pier Paolo Pasolini(1922-1975)
• Accatone
• The Decameron
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Thousand One Nights
• The Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom

Italian
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• Sergio Leone (1929-1989)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• For a Few Dollars More
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Once Upon a Time in America

Italian
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• Federico Fellini (1920-1993)
• La Strada
• La Dolce Vita
• 8 1/2
• Fellini-Satyricon
• Juliet of the Spirits
• Amarcord

Italian
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• Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)
• LNotte
• LEcclise
• LAvventura
• Blow-Up
• Zabriskie Point
• The Passenger

Italian
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Japanese

• Akira Kurosowa (1910-1998)
• The Seven Samurai
• Kagemusha
• Rashomon
• Ran
• Dreams