1939-1952: The Devastation of War…And a New Movie Language

• Rome, Open City (1945) dir. Roberto Rossellini
  • Trama of war
• Stagecoach (1939) dir. John Ford
  • Movie Legend
• Directed by John Ford (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  • View of the west is sadder
• Osaka Elegy (1936) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Staging
• Flesh and the Devil (1926) dir. Clarence Brown
  • Shallow focus
  • Deep focus
• Follow the Boys (1944) dir. A. Edward Sutherland
  • Magician of cinema
• Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
  • Space was big
• Me and Orson Welles (2008) dir. Richard Linklater
• Chimes at Midnight (1965) dir. Orson Welles
  • Force comes from Theatre
  • Looked at the past
• Cabiria (1914) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Giovanni Pastrone
• Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Big Scale
• The General (1926) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
  • Depth
• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) dir. William Wyler
  • Put the phone call far away from the camera
• Code Unknown (2000) dir. Michael Haneke
  • Deep space
• Sátántangó (1994) dir. Béla Tarr
  • Deep space – Foreground to background to foreground.
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco
• Un Homme et une Femme (1966) dir. Claude Lelouch
• Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann
  • Influenced by pop videos
• Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Light
• Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica
  • Harsh light
  • Tracking shots
• Pin Up Girl (1944) dir. H. Bruce Humberstone
  • Holywood
• Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder
• Portrait of a 66% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder (1982) dir. Annie Tresgot
  • Bright sun – Films usually dark
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) dir. Fritz Lang
• The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks
• Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks
• The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Irvin Kershner
  • Climax discovers Darth Vador is Luke’s father
• Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur
• The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino
  • Directed by a woman
• Little Caesar (1931) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
• Le Quai des brumes (1938) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Marcel Carné
• La Chienne (1931) dir. Jean Renoir
• Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang
• American Cinema: Film Noir (1995) dir. Alain Klarer
• Gun Crazy (1950) dir. Joseph H. Lewis
  • Staging looked realistic
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dir. Arthur Penn
• L.A. Confidential (1997) dir. Curtis Hanson
• Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott
  • Walks through shadows
• The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan
  • Filmed at night
• Siva (1989) dir. Ram Gopal Varma
• Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron
  • Romantic cinema continued
• 71st Academy Awards (1999) dir. Louis J. Horvitz
• An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli
• The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
  • Flashing lights
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
  • Joyful that rain is a pleasure
• Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
• Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen
• Two for the Road (1967) dir. Stanley Donen
  • Intercuts time periods
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
• Post Haste (1933) dir. Humphrey Jennings
  • Directing with a poetic style
• Listen to Britain (1942) dir. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister
• The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed
  • Shots of the horizontal axis
• The True Glory (1945) dir. Carol Reed and Garson Kanin
• Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese