The Story of Film : Episode 7

The Story of Film – European New Wave

1957-1964: The Shock of the New – Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe.

• Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
  • • Take into account life during the time
    • Movies were not based around the “innocent” look
• Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman
• The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • • Actor looks intensely into the camera
• Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • • Demonstrates how Bergman films has evolved
    • Topic of questioning God
    • Use film to portray his own thoughts as well
• Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
  • • Flashing scenes
• Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
  • • Film about imprisonment and crimes
    • Not a melodrama compared to other films
    • Flat angle
    • “The invisible hand”, finally finding grace
    • same character in every scene, “if the character doesn’t see it, you don’t see it”
• Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson
• Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
• Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Jacques Tati
• Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati
  • • Old fashioned characters
    • New world filmed in flat light
    • Frame doesn’t move but the audience’s eyes do
• Fellini’s Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini
  • • Wanted show whole society
• Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini
  • • Modern
    • Innovated storyline
• 8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
  • • Noise gives inspiration
    • Everything decided last minute, no script
• Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen
• Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda
• Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
  • • Film questions what’s real and truth
    • The statues move from one point to another, leaving the audience question
• The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut
• À bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • • Close ups filled with short roll
    • jump cuts are used
    • A shot is a thought
• Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Edwin S. Porter
• Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
• Une femme mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
  • • Camera angles
• Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
• The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Sergio Leone
  • • squeaking sound
    • time has stood still
    • believe that time should be like life, going
    • Modern life in the west
    • Shot rise up to show life
    • Shot like through someone’s eyes
• Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray
  • • Brought modern life into the west
• Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti
  • • Color is bright makes the audience believe that the scene is about pride, however it was a protest
• Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti
  • • Sympathy for the poor
    • Close shot, then far away
    • Bird eyes view
• L’eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • • Abstract scenes
    • Walks out of scene and never appears again
• The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • • First time character has dissolved into space
• The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
  • • Camera slowly withdraws
• The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri
  • • Mocking
• What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
• Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buñue
  • • ???
• I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjöman
  • • Ethically disturbing
• La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache