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1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…

• Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
  • Light
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
  • Built sets
  • Makeup
  • Costumes
• Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
• Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
  • The camera follows the wind
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
  • Shadows
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
  • “Angels with dirty faces”
• The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
• The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
  • Fscination with camera
• One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
  • Felt like an architect
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
• Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
  • Overhead shot to look very tall
• Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
• The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
  • Visual jokes in the story
  • Climax: Train falls into the water
  • Was not cheap
• Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
  • Filmed in deadpan
• Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • Movement
  • Shows how his mind worked
• The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • Recreated Chaplin’s childhood
  • Empathy
• Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
  • Close-ups
• The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • Metaphor
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
• Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
  • Wearing Hat
• Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
  • Also the iconic hat
• Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
• Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
  • Ideas happen again in other films
• Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
  • Influenced by Chaplin
• 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
  • Most influential film
• I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • Influenced

…And the First of its Rebels

• Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
  • Longest non-fiction film
  • Documentaries were formed
• The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
  • Tracing shots
• Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
  • Real places in Japan
• The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
  • War experiences to poems
• 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
  • Short documentary
  • Made 5 times
• Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
• The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
  • Simple details
• Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
  • Special effects
  • Used color throughout the film
  • Nine months worth of filming
• Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
• Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
• The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
  • Realism
  • Hidden Cameras
• The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
  • Used the idea from the Crowd
• The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
• Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
  • Angles
  • Wants earth
• Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
  • Light
  • Natural
  • Color
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Close up
  • Nothing in background
• Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • White clothing
• The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Shots became lighter
• Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Shadows
• Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
  • The sketched idea in the screenplay
• Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • Passion