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Film History Week 11
Dr. Lavery
•The Sixties Explosion
Nouvelle vague/New
Wave
Resnais | Camus | Rohmer | Godard |
Malle | Truffaut
Alain Resnais
(1922- )
•Last Year at
Marienbad
•Hiroshima, Mon
Amour
French
Marcel Camus
(1912-1982)
•Black Orpheus
French
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
Jean-Luc Goddard
(1930- )
•Breathless
•Weekend
•The Chinese
•Masculine/Feminine
•Two or Three Things I Know
About Her
French
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 doesn’t.”
“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."
Louis Malle (19321995)
•The Lovers
•A Very Private Affair
•Murmur of the Heart
•Pretty Baby
•Atlantic City
•Au revoir les enfants
•My Dinner with Andre
•Damage
French
François Truffaut
(1932-1984)
•400 Blows
•Jules and Jim
•Day for Night
•Shoot the Piano Player
French
New Wave
•The impact of Alexandre Astruc: cinema as “the art of the
age”; “camera-stylo” [camera-pen]
•André Bazin’s 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”)
The Dreamers
(Bernardo
Bertolucci, 2003)
Truth Cinema
Free Cinema
Cinéma Vérité
Kino-Eye
Man with a Movie
Camera (Dizga Vertov,
1929)
(Vertov, 18961954)
“Life caught unaware”
Free Cinema
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Documentary film movement originating in England, 19561959
Spawned by the journal Sequence.
Founders: Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson,
Anderson’s motto: "No Film Can Be Too Personal.”
Governing principles:
Freedom of propaganda
Obliviousness to box office appeal.
Embrace of the filmmaker’s freedom
Ordinary people and everydayness—the 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.”
Cinéma Vérité
AKA Direct Cinema
Documentary filmmaking style that began in the
1950s/early 1960s Technologically inspired—by 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
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” (Leacock’s "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
Underground/Experimen
tal Film
Maya Deren (1917-1961)
•Meshes of the
Afternoon
•Ritual in Transfigured
Time
•Divine Horseman
RussianAmerican
Stan Brakhage
(1933-2003)
•Dog Star Man
American
Andy
Warhol(19281987)
•Empire
•Sleep
•B#*w Job
•Eat
American
Jordan Belson
(1926- )
•Transmutation
•Mandala
•Re-Entry
•Samadhi
•Cosmos
•Chakra
•Music of the Spheres
American
Directors Active in the
1960s
Alfred Hitchcock
(1889-1980)
•Rear Window
•Rope
•Notorious
•Spellbound
•North by Northwest
•Vertigo
•Psycho
•The Birds
British-American
Arthur Penn
(1922- )
•The Left-Handed Gun
•The Miracle Worker
•Bonnie and Clyde
•Alice’s Restaurant
•Little Big Man
American
John Cassavetes
(1929- )
•Faces
•Husbands
•A Woman Under the
Influence
•Gloria
American
Mike Nichols
(1931- )
•Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf
•The Graduate
•Angels in America
•Charlie Wilson’s War
GermanAmerican
Robert Altman
(1925-2006)
•M*A*S*H
•Brewster McCloud
•McCabe and Mrs.
Miller
•Nashville
•Three Women
•The Player
American
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
Lindsay Anderson
(1923-1994)
•This Sporting Life
•If
•O Lucky Man!
British
Ken Russell (1927- )
•Women in Love
•The Music Lover
•Lisztomania
•Tommy
•Altered States
•Savage Messiah
British
John Schlesinger
(1926-2003)
•Midnight Cowboy
•Sunday Blood
Sunday
•The Day of the
Locust
•Marathon Man
British
David Lean (19081991)
•Lawrence of Arabia
•Doctor Zhivago
•Bridge Over the River
Kwai
•A Passage to India
British
Roman Polanski
(1933- )
•Repulsion
•Knife in the Water
•Chinatown
•Macbeth
Polish-American
Ingmar Bergman
(1918-2007)
•The Seventh Seal
•Wild Strawberries
•Persona
•Through a Glass Darkly
•Fanny and Alexander
Swedish
Luis Bunuel (19001983)
•Un Chien Andalou
•Discreet Charm of the
Bourgeoise
•Viridiana
•The Exterminating Angel
•Belle je jour
•That Obscure Object of
Desire
Spanish
Pier Paolo
Pasolini(1922-1975)
•Accatone
•The Decameron
•The Canterbury Tales
•The Thousand One Nights
•The Hundred and Twenty Days
of Sodom
Italian
Sergio Leone (19291989)
•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
Federico Fellini (19201993)
•La Strada
•La Dolce Vita
•8 1/2
•Fellini-Satyricon
•Juliet of the Spirits
•Amarcord
Italian
Michelangelo
Antonioni (19122007)
•L’Notte
•L’Ecclise
•L’Avventura
•Blow-Up
•Zabriskie Point
•The Passenger
Italian
Akira Kurosowa
(1910-1998)
•The Seven Samurai
•Kagemusha
•Rashomon
•Ran
•Dreams
Japanese