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Black and white melodrama focused on an upper-class widow falling in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman.
All That Heaven Allow, Douglas Sirk, (1955)
Sirk's films were during his time considered unimportant (because they revolve around female and domestic issues), banal (because of their focus on larger-than-life feelings) and unrealistic (because of their conspicuous style).Many film theorists view the film as a social critique of the conformity obsessed 1950s.
Film set in, German occupied Czechoslovakia concerning a train station.
Closely Watched Trains, Jirí Menzel (1966)

Czechoslovakian film. Menzel a graduate of FAMU along with Milos Forman and Ivan Passer. Loosely structured, often shot in the streets and on provincial back roads, frequently acted by amateurs, their lack of formality, the products of an Iron Curtain country. Czech New Wave released in America in the 60s, warmly embraced. Menzel continued working in Prague but was eventually obliged to denounce the “errors” of the Czech New Wave before being allowed to return to the cinema.
Documentary on Bob Dylan during his prime. Featured no narration.
Don’t Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker, (1967)
Cinéma vérité (cinema of truth). Style extremely influential and can be seen in fictional narrative movies like Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón. Pennebaker later employed his style to capture politics with The War Room (1993).
Robert De Niro is a gangster in New York City, for one of the first times.
Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese, (1973)
Scorcese flick through and through. Focus on crime and life of the streets of Little Italy in New York City. Film what you know. Independently produced. Typical of his early work in its realistic detail and its naturalistic, partially improvised performances—particularly that of Robert De Niro, the actor most associated with Scorsese’s films.
Hollywood Satire staring Tim Robbins and featuring dozens of surprising celebrity cameos.
The Player, Robert Altman, (1992)
Hollywood satire by Altman, his Hollywood comeback film. Highly naturalistic with a stylized perspective. Famous open tracking shot lasting 7 minutes and 47 seconds, references directly Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and Hitchcock's Rope.
Introspective Turkish Melodrama staring the director and his wife.
Climates, Ceylan, (2007)
Director acts opposite his wife as a couple undergoing a painful break-up. Shot on high-definition digital videos and was initially criticized for his choice as it supposedly undermines his poetic, long takes.
Urban High School Drama featuring some rockin' tunes.
Blackboard Jungle, Richard Brooks (1955)
The film has also been credited with sparking the Rock and Roll revolution by featuring Bill Haley & His Comets's '"Rock Around the Clock", initially a B-side, over the film's opening credits, at the start of the movie, in an instrumental version in the middle of the film, and at the close of the movie, establishing that song as an instant classic. It was the placing of that song in these four strategic spots in the movie by director Richard Brooks that arguably led to the explosion of rock and roll as a musical, cultural, and social phenomenon.
It sought to portray the existing decay of youth in middle America, critique parental style, and expose the rift between two generations. Starred James Dean spoke to a generation with sheer sexual charm and magnetism that resonated with female and male audiences alike.
Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray (1955)
Color Italian film staring Monica Vitti and Alain Delon.
L'Eclisse, Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
La notte (1961), starring Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni, and L'eclisse (1962), starring Monica Vitti and Alain Delon, followed L'avventura. These three films are commonly referred to as a trilogy because they are stylistically similar and all concerned with the alienation of man in the modern world.
Yugoslavian hardcore sex spliced with narrative structure.
WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dušan Makavejev (1962)
Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev, explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as exploring the life and work of Wilhelm Reich. Despite different settings, characters and time periods, the different elements produce a single story of human sexuality and revolution through a montage effect. Combination of documentary footage with narrative.
180 coal miners strike and one woman sings Which Side are You On?
Harlan County USA, Barbara Kopple (1976)180 coal miners strike against the Duke Power Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
Rather than using narration to tell the story, Barbara Kopple chose to let the words and actions of these people speak for themselves. For example, when the company goons show up early in the film — the strikers call them "gun thugs" — the goons try to keep their guns hidden from the camera. However as the strike drags on for nearly a year, both sides are more than willing to openly brandish their weapons.
Highly stylistic and unusual Hong Kong Romance Melodrama
In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai (2000)
Romance melodrama, Hong Kong Cinema. In Wong's rendition of the melodrama, we have a romance picture that works mainly as a two-hander chamber play, illustrated by contemplative snippets of popular music that also help to recreate the ambience of Hong Kong in the 1960s. The elements of nostalgia and melodrama that play on our feelings are Wong's way of paying tribute to a period and to a genre. Also directed Fallen Angels, highly stylized MTV editing.
Black and white Italian film concerning a prostitute.
Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini (1967)
Fellini's roots as a filmmaker are in the postwar Italian Neorealist movement, and his early films have a grittiness that is gradually replaced by the dazzling phantasms of the later ones. Nights of Cabiria is transitional; it points toward the visual freedom of La dolce vita while still remaining attentive to the real world of postwar Rome. The musical and film by Bob Fosse was based on Fellini's script.
German sadists mess with family and audience
Funny Games, Michael Haneke (1997)
German language film that openly moralizes and chastises the filmgoer. Explores and depicts violence as a mean to criticize it, and plays with the conventions of film to deny any phycological pleasure to the viewer. Haneke told his during the production that if the film was a success, it would be because audiences had misunderstood the meaning behind it. Later remade shot for shot as an american release to reach a wider audience.
Black and white film that takes place during 2 hours, part of the French Film New Wave.
Cleo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda (1962)
The story depicts the life of Cléo in real time between 5 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon. The film is noted for its handling of several of the themes of existentialism, including discussions of mortality, the idea of despair, and leading a meaningful life. The film has a strong feminine viewpoint and raises questions about how women are perceived. Notable for its use of long extended takes in the cafe, dipping into different conversations. Mix of vivid vérité and melodrama. Relates to Jean-Luc Goddard's Breathless, part of the French New Wave.