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what was the french new wave
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young filmmakers reacting against established commercial studio system
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what was the first student filmmaking generation
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french new wave
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what was the french new wave critique on the system
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- cinematically too conservative
- politically too conservative |
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where did the new wave style come from
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- oppositional policies (quesitoning rules)
- limited resources (had to use what they could get, became part of the aesthetics) |
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how did fnw break cinematicrules
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- hand held camera (from documentary)
- improvised plot and script - unconventional continuity editing |
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why did fnw use hand held camera
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- documentary = cinema verite, saying that they are capturing cinema truth
- brings documentary immediacy |
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how were fnw films improvised
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film becomes a community project, everyone pitches into to the final film idea
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continuity editing?
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shot progression ls ms cu
2 shot establishing shot shot reverse shot match action cut glance object cut //fades, dissolves |
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400 blows fnw examples?
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- improvised dialogue quesiton
- breaks with conventional continuity d. Francois Truffant |
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breathless fnw examples?
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- matchless cut (bg changing)
d. jean luc godard |
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last year at marienbad fnw examples?
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- flash cuts of recovered memories
d. Alian Renais |
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french new wave AESTHETICS?
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1. broke cinematic rules
2. redidication to realism 3. movie references 4. goal: return joy/experimentation to filmmaking 5. cinema as ideological provocation |
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cleo from 5 to 7
how fnw/unconventional |
- what we make films about? (film about waiting
- non-actors |
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movie references
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- tributes cinematic masters
- les mistons (sprinkler gets sprinkled)& day for night (citizen kane dream)d. Francois Truffaut |
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eg of redidcation to realism
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cleo 5 to 7: non-actors she passes on the street
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small change
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- children centered
- multiple protagonists - less linear structure - personal expression |
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who wrote the book on hitchcock
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truffaut
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godard's project/goal?
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connect cinema to life
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godard's method
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revolutionary attack on conventional filmmaking
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godard's logic/reasoning for attacking conventional filmmaking
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attack the studio system because it is capitalist
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band of outsiders influence
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- minute of silence: stops the sound
- dancing: stops the music, narration of what the people are thinking |
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what was the movie that is all stills
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la jetee
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who did band of outsiders
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jean luc godard
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who did la jetee, what was it
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chris marker
- whole movie is stills |
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f new wave legacy
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1. changes in continuity
2. worldwide cinematic experimentation 3. new american cinema |
