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1967-1979: New American Cinema.

• Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey
  • Comes in from the bottom
• Artists and Models (1955) dir. Frank Tashlin
  • Looked like a cartoon
  • The color made it look fake.
• Catch-22 (1970) dir. Mike Nichols
  • World upside down
• Mash (1970) dir. Robert Altman
  • The use of zoom lenses made characters not know if they are on camera
• The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols
• The Fireman’s Ball (1967) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Miloš Forman
• One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) dir. Miloš Forman
  • Mental institution
• The Last Movie (1971) dir. Dennis Hopper
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) dir. Robert Altman
  • Zoom lenses
  • low contrast
• The Conversation (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • About sound equipment
• Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Church
  • Holds finger in a flame
• Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Tracking away from the character
• Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Kept camera away from emotion
• Raging Bull (1980) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • Reaches rock bottom before changing
  • Fast cutting
• Italianamerican (1974) dir. Martin Scorsese
• American Gigolo (1980) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Paul Schrader
  • The 80s red lighting
  • Finds grace through a woman
• Light Sleeper (1992) dir. Paul Schrader
• Pickpocket (1959) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Robert Bresson
• The Walker (2007) dir. Paul Schrader
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Black senators were portrayed as drunks
• Killer of Sheep (1978) dir. Charles Burnett
  • Filmed in black and white
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  • Jewish
• Annie Hall (1977) dir. Woody Allen
• City Lights (1931) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Charlie Chaplin
  • Makes a blind person see
• Manhattan (1979) dir. Woody Allen
• The Last Picture Show (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  • Black and white
• The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) dir. Sam Peckinpah
  • Widescreen film
  • Set at the end of the 1800s
• Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
• Days of Heaven (1978) dir. Terrence Malick
  • Camera flows
  • The camera attached to the body
• Mirror (1975) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Wind comes alive
• Cabaret (1972) dir. Bob Fosse
• The Godfather (1972) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
• Chinatown (1974) dir. Roman Polanski
  • Based on a true story
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
  • Black and white
• Jules et Jim (1962) dir. François Truffaut