The Story of Film : Episode 8

The Story of Film – New Directors, New Form

1965-1969: New Waves – Sweep Around the World. (11:58)

• Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda
  • • Disguises meaning
• Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Roman Polanski
• Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier
  • • Camera tracks through the castle
• Knife in the Water (1962) dir. Roman Polanski
  • • Did not deal with the topic of war compared to most films
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
• The Hand (1965) dir. Jiří Trnka
  • • Animated movie
    • Symbolic film
• The Fireman’s Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
  • • Filmed with a gloss
• Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová
  • • Pop art style film
    • Modern
• The Red and the White (1968) dir. Miklós Jancsó
  • • The actor finally looks into the camera
• Une journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker
• Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • • Wide-angle
• The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • • Astonishing endings
• Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • • The camera creeps backward and the colors begin to become mute
    • Using physical and metaphysical
• Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • • Reflections into the water
    • Background noise
    • It begins to snow, new in cinema
• Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • • Poetic cinema
    • Looking up from below the flowers
    • Use of foreground
    • Dream sequence
• Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
• Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • • Full widescreen
    • Demonstrating modern japan
• In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima
• Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii
  • • Window scene
• The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shōhei Imamura
  • • Metaphors
• Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
  • • Framed characters in the far distance
• Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shōhei Imamura
  • • Demonstrating social structure
• Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • • Heightened emotions
• The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
• Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • • Makes film as though sci-fi
• Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul
• Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
• I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
  • • Slow-motion as the camera zooms out
• The House Is Black (1963) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
  • • Shot in black and white
    • Fast jump cuts
    • A shot going to another, like a rhythm
• Black Girl (1966) dir. Ousmane Sembène
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz
• Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
  • • Had the camera shake
• Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew
  • • “Fly on the wall”
    • A new type of documentary
    • The cameraman just followed Kennedy
• Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes
  • • “New American cinema”
• Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jørgen Leth
• Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols
  • • Harsh lighting
• Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler
• Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper
  • • long lens
    • cuts back and forth
• Making “The Shining” (1980) dir. Vivian Kubrick
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Stanley Kubrick
• Der Sieger (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann