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Week 11 French New Wave Breathless 90 mins, 1960, French Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard Written By: Jean-Luc Godard Synopsis: Paying homage to the numerous crime thrillers of Hollywood’s Golden era, this film charts the relationship between Michel, a stylish but unpredictable criminal, and his estranged American girlfriend. Again, the notion of escapism through the cinema is key to this most famous of the new wave pictures. Essential Readings: Hart Cohen, Juan Francisco Salazar and Iqbal Barkat.…

Despite the protagonist wanting nothing more than to be a rugged, hard-boiled film noir hero, Jean-Luc Godard depicts Michel as a foolish man who lives to emulate Humphrey Bogart. As Michel travels through his life of crime, jumping from one bad decision to the next, Godard captures the intricacies of Michel’s character and dedicates each layer of the film to conveying them. Like Michel, Godard is not afraid to take risks, and he uses compositional elements in unconventional ways to deepen the…

The phrase “New Wave” was a blanket term given to a materializing film movement in Europe in the late1950’s and 1960’s, mainly in France, Italy, and England where an abrupt manifestation of brilliant films emerged. This movement consisted of two groups of directors, the Cahiers , majorly consisting of critics turned filmmakers and the Left Bank who consisted of individuals who went straight into filmmaking. Jean-Luc Godard was within the Cahier division. In collaboration with Francois Truffaut,…

Being famous used to be something that came along with having a set of unique skills and getting noticed. Actors like Humphrey Bogart and Jack Nicholson didn’t rise to fame because they had catchy phrases like ‘It’s T-Shirt Time’ and ‘Gym. Tan. Laundry’. In the zeitgeist of today’s television you don’t need to possess even a sliver of acting talent, as long as you can appeal to the audience, documentary reality shows like The Jersey Shore, wife swap, and Made will gladly take you. Ever since…

As tension rose in Europe in the fall of 1939, across the Atlantic Ocean, America had its own surmounting problems. Author Lynne Olson chronicles the flight between isolationism and joining the burgeoning war to help Britain, France, and the rest of the Allied powers against Hitler and Nazi Germany. The book pins the trials of the likes of President Franklin Roosevelt and interventionists alike as well as isolationists including, America’s once thought of hero, Charles Lindbergh. “Those Angry…

I Think This is The Beginning of A Beautiful Paper The movie Casablanca is directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman play Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund respectively, two main characters of the film. They are supported by Claude Rains, who was cast as Captain Jean Renault, and Paul Henreid, who played the French revolutionary Victor Laszlo. Casablanca appears to fit the film noir genre at the beginning because…

The French New Wave, also known as La Nouvelle Vague in its home country, France, came to be during the 1950s and 1960s. It was created by a group of French filmmakers who proved that they don’t need mainstream cinema to create and produce successful films. Even if the New Wave wasn’t really a conscious movement it left a legacy with films like À bout de soufflé/Breathless (written and directed by Jean-Luc Goddard). French New Wave rejected the idea of a traditional story in films – they didn’t…

Films are products of their time and evolve as American culture evolves. As such, directorial use of existing technology, and the cultural desire for improved movie-making have led to the development of the motion picture industry. “To most people, a movie is popular entertainment, a product to be produced and marketed by a large commercial studio. Regardless of the subject matter, this movie is pretty to look at – every image is well polished by an army of skilled artists and technicians”…

down and admit to his guilt, instead the man goes on the offensive, pressing Moseby about his personal life. The man even goes as far as to taunt Moseby when grabbed saying “Come on Harry, take a swing at me like Sam Spade would.” The methods of Humphrey Bogart’s classic character are shown to be ineffective against a man half the detective’s size and walking with a limp. This disrespect for the role of the detective can be seen by many of the characters in the film. Paula especially, seems to…

Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film, “Casablanca” is a classical love story depicting our world during the time it was filmed. Through the film, the director is expressing an idea that as our world evolves sociologically, nothing stays the same. “Casablanca’s” context shows a corrupted society where a second world war is going on and the event itself caused people from places such as Europe to find ways of escape. The setting of “Casablanca” is representing various aspects of the society such as the…