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Italian Neorealism definition
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Realistic aesthetic based on principles of documentary film
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Italian Neorealism characteristics
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Location shooting, non-professional actors, intimate stories, natural lighting
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Roberto Rosselini
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"Rome Open City" (1945)
Married Ingrid Bergman |
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"Rome Open City"
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By Robert Rosselini
About resistance fightings martyred by the Nazi's at the film's conclusion |
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"Voyage to Italy" (1953)
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Made with Ingrid Berman
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De Sica and Zavatinni
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Most popular among American audiences
-Set up guidelines to capture and reflect reality -Umberto D. -Two Women |
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"Bicycle Thieves" (1948)
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-By De Sica and Zavatinni
-Simple story about a father and son who look for a stolen bike |
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Frederico Fellini basic
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Co-wrote script for "Rome Open City"
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Frederico Fellini's style
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Started out as a realist aesthetic and become a fantasy and carnivalesque [La Strada (1954)]
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Frederico Style in the 1960s
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Used big actors, expensive sets, production names
-La Dolce Vita (1960) 8 1/2 (1963) |
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Michaelangelo Antonioni biography
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Began career as a neorealist (painter and documentary filmmaker) and moved onto more expressive aesthetic style
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Michaelangelo Antonioni style
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Utilizes landscapes and environments like expressionist filmmakers. Points towards the psychological state of onscreen characters.
-Later made films in England -"L'Aventura" (1960) -"Blowup (1960) "The Passenger" (1975) |
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"The Passenger" (1975)
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Directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni
Used psychedelic imagery fo the late 1960's drug culture |
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French New Wave basic
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Two different divisions: Left Bank and Cahiers du Cinema
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Cineaste
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New generation of young film lovers who became knowledgeable about film history. Because they lacked funds to make their own films, they became film critics
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Critical Journal
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Cahiers Du Cinema [The Cinema Papers] was formed by Andre Bazin
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Cahiers
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Worked or wrote for the Cahiers Du Cinema
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Francois Truffant
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-400 Blows (1959) marked the beginning of the French New Wave
-Shoot the Piano Player" (1960) -Mies and Jim" (1961) -Always willing to break the narrative flow at a moment's notice |
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"400 Blows" (1959) style
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spontaneous, flowing camera work and improvisational acting
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Jean-Luc Goddard
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-First film "Breathless" (1960) was written by Tuffant and commented the new wave as a hip young artistic movement
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Jean-Luc Goddard style
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Intentional jumps and breaks of the 4th wall to cinematic language
-Contempt (1963) - Weekend (1967) |
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"Band of Outsiders" (1968)
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Directed by Jean-Luc Goddard
Comments on French cultural view of feminine form |
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Claude Chabral
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First of the Cahiers to make a film
He greatly admired Hitchcock |
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Left Bank style
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Uses challenging narrative structures that are neither improvising nor sponataneous and instead are lyrical and literate
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Alain Resnais
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"Hiroshim" (1959) and "Marienbad" (1961)
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"Cleo from 5-7" (1961) style
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Demonstrates sensitivity and thoughtfulness as well as a playful side
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Agnes Verda
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Part of Left Bank, worked heavily in documentaries before moving into the new wave
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Chris Marker
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Most experimental of the new wave movement
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"la Jetee" (1964)
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30 Minutes of film made of almost all still photos
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"San Soleil" (1962)
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A mediation of Japanese culture and his love for "Vertigo"
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Louis Malle
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Floated in and out of the French New Wave movement
-"Elevator to the Gallows" "The Lovers and more" |
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The National Film Board of Canada
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-Founded 1939 by John Grieson
-Promoted feature length documentary production throughout the 40s, 50s, and 60s |
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Free Cinema
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Personal films that reflected personal attitudes and experiences
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"Chronicle of a Summer" (1961)
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Directed by Jean Rouche
-Example of Cinema Verite -Presented several Parisians over a summer ending the film with those subjects watching and reacting to the footage |
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"Endless Summer"
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Directed by Bruce Brown, 2 surfers, perfect wave, no sound
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"Night and Fog" (1957)
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Directed by Alain Resnais, was a documentary about memories of the Holocaust that uses images that mix public fact with private recollection
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Cinema Verite
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Free cinema that grew into a new form of documentary that attempted to find truth in random events
-Directly interacts with subjects |
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"The Mad Masters" (1957)
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Ethnographic film by Jean Rouche that examined life in colonized regions of Africa
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Direct Cinema
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-In United States
-Less obtrusive version of Cinema Verite -Did not interact with subjects but did not deny the impact of their observation |
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Robert Drew
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Photojournalist that hired a group of film makers to produce TV Documentaries
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Drew Associates
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Produced "Primary" (1960) and "The Chair" 1962
-Headed by Robert Drew, included Pennebaker -David and Albert Maysles broke off to search for intimate narratives within ordinary extrordinary circumstances |
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Pennebaker
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Worked for Drew Associates before splintering to focus on pop culture figures and eventes
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Pennebaker films
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"Salesman" (1968)
"Gimme Shelter" (1970) "Grey Gardens" (1975) - All demonstrates role of camera itself in creating an event |
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Pennebaker rock and roll films
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"Don't Look Back" (1966) with Bob Dylan
"Monterey Pop" (1968) |
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Hollywood Renaissance definition
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Young, emerging directors with films that were successful despite low costs causing America to move towards smaller independent projects rather than lavish spectacles
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"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)
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Directed by Auther Penn, marked the start of Hollywood Renaissance films
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"Bonnie and Clyde" style
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Filled with anti-heroes, dirty aesthetics, and unique editing
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Similar to "Bonnie and Clyde"
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"The Wild Bunch" 1968)
"Easy Rider" (1969) "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) |
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New American Auteurs
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Americans embracing the caheirs du cinema's notions of "auteur" directors
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John Cassavetes
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Most prominent independent filmmaker of the 1970s who embraced the restraints of low-budget filmmaking
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John Cassavetes style
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intense, freestyle aesthetics to look towards the problems facing Vietnam-era Americans
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Woody Allen basic
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comic "Auteur" of the 1970s, American cinema. Followed in the footsteps of keaton and chaplin.
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"Manhattan" (1979)
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Allen created a fumbling Jewish shclepp character that served as his filmic alter ego
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Robert Altman basic
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Specialized in two types of films: small character dramas [The Long Goodbye (1973)] and large ensemble films such as MASH [1970], and Nashville [1975]
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Robert Altman style
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Emphasized improvisation and sponataneous action, utilizing advancements in audio technology to allow characters to talk over and around one another
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Directed epic pictures including Godfather triology (1972, 1974, 1990)
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Francis Ford Coppola style
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"The Conversation" (1973)
"Apocalypse Now" (1970) Mise-enscene loaded with meaning and details as well as narratives feauring morally ambiguous characters |
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Martin Scorsese basic
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specialized in dark narratives with troubled characters unsure of their place in society
-Mean streets (1973) -Taxi Driver (1975) -Raging Bull (1980) |
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Martin Scorsese style
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Uses gritty aesthetics to emphasize the harsh reality of modern urban life
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Bollywood
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Formulaic and structurally different often over three hours in length and incorporating song and dance between dramatic sequences
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Satyajit Ray
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Satyajit Ray most studied Indian filmmaker
-Apu Trilogy [Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959)] |
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Japanese cinema
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Two directions:
Hollywood style films with Japanese characters and themes & Traditions of Japanese aesthetics and narrative practices |
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Akira Kurosawa
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Rashoman (1950) + Seven Samurai (1954)
[greatest of the samuri films makers] |
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Yasujiro Ozu
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Quiet character study focusing on the culture of 1950s japanese society
Tokyo Story (1953) |
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David Lean
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striking use of cinemascope seen in widescreen compositions
-Lawrence of Arabia (1962) -Doctor Zhivago (1965) |
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Stanley Kubrick
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Worked within the confines of the system
-2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) -A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
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Stanley Kubrick style
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Used the aesthetics of Hollywood to exploit the fears of modern society
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Ingmar Bergman
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-The Seventh Seal (1957)
-Personal (1965) |
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Ingmar Bergman style
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Common themes dealing with death remorse and religious struggles
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Ousmane Sembene
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First indigenous black African filmmaker
Used his cinema to fight against French colonial system -Black Girl (1966) -Xala (1975) - emphasized struggles in colonized Africa -Regional languages and cultures rarely depicted in the cinema |
