Month: December 2020

1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…

• Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles

–shows light being used in a studio

• The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
• Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
• Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
• The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
• The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
• One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
• Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
• Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
• The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
• Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
• Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin

–one of first feature length films by C.Chaplin

• Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
• The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin

–entertainment and politics

• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
• Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
• Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
• Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
• Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
• Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
• Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
• Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
• • Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
  • I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu

  …And the First of its Rebels

  • Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
  • ^longest non-fiction film
    • The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
    • ^used teacking shots
    • Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
    • The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
    • The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
    • The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
    • Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
    • The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
    • Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
    • Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
    • Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
    • The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
      • The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
      • The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
      • Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
      • Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
      • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
      • Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
      • The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
      • –faded corners of the frame
      • Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
      • Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
      • Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
      • Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Introduction

• Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg

-peacefull beach in Ireland to film, brought bullets and explosives

-have us feel we’re there

• Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
• Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz

-Studio sets arent classical

-too perfectly staged

• The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
• Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese

-zoomed in ideas expanded

• The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin

1895-1918: The World Discovers a New Art Form or Birth of the Cinema

• Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince
• The Kiss (1896 film) (a.k.a. May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise
• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumière

-Workers leaving factory, the first

-Movies shown to a crowd not just inside a box, but projected

• Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumière

-one of the first films, a train coming toward the screen

• Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy Dickson or William Heise
• Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson
• What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901) dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter
• Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Méliès
• Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès
• La lune à un mètre (1898) dir. Georges Méliès
• The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith

-first tracking shot

• Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick
• The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone
• The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector

-one of first filmed sports

1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream

• Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton
• The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Pathé

-cuts between two storylines at once

-parrallel editing

-to build tention and cut between two stories

• The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (a.k.a. The Assassination of the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargyand André Calmettes

-one of first reverse angle shots

-when looking away, a look back at the person from a new perspective

• Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad
• Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan

-when started to show peoples faces more clearly

• The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen
• Häxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen

-used light to his advantage

• Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjöström
• The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjöström

-Made a greatd multi film

• Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg

-first test of youth and glamor

-atracted people to see

• The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait
• The great Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille

-looking at people in different shots

-one looks at one side, one the other

• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin Kershner

-Vader looks at a person off the shot, then switched to an officer looking back at him in another shot

• Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blaché

-One of the first movie directors

-first dramatic art film

• Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber

-shows movie

• The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjöström

-one of first films showng fear

• Rescued from an Eagle’s Nest (1908) dir. J. Searle Dawley
• The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith

-a civil war film, one of the first

• Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky
• Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone

-one of first dolly shots

• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Souls on the Road (a.k.a. Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata

-storylines intertwining