Notes
1918-1932: The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Raoul Walsh
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Robert and Bertram (1915) dir. Max Mack
- Overacting in movies to make fun of romanticism of love
- The Oyster Princess (1919) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Very comedic portrayal of romanticised concepts
- The Mountain Cat (1921) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Overt and daring imagery of heart thrown to another
- Very surreal production
- The Marriage Circle (1924) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
- Uses objects to convey things forbidden in America
- La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance
- Impressionist work, tells story of love triangle
- Shows the inner thoughts of characters
- Napoléon (1927) dir. Abel Gance
- Romanticised so far it put regular romanticism to shame
- Used air compressed camera to show magnitude
- It was filmed with three cameras showing the same scene.
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene
- Expressionist film, full of fear and vivid images.
- Used flat light and painted shadows
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1928) dir. Charles Klein
- Influenced by Caligari
- The Lodger (1927) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Influenced by Caligari
- A Page of Madness (1926) dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Influenced by Caligari
- Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang
- Political, shows class warfare between upper and lower classes.
- The Crowd (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. King Vidor
- Influenced by Metropolis
- Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) dir. F. W. Murnau
- Very symbolic imagery
- Voted the best film of all time by French critics
- Opus 1 (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann
- Abstract animated film
- Entr’acte (1924) dir. René Clair
- Comedy-based with strange shots
- Rien que les heures (1926) dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
- Strange and haunting
- Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Salvador Dali inspired by previous film
- Un Chien Andalou (1929) dir. Luis Buñuel
- Made from the conversations between Bunuel and Dali
- Extremely surreal imagery
- Innovative editing
- Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
- Inspired shots of ants and ears
- L’Age d’Or (1930) dir. Luis Buñuel
- Rejected in theatres for years
- Kino-Pravda n. 19 (1924) dir. Dziga Vertov
- Glumov’s Diary (1923) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Used shots of the dead rolling down the steps to communicate horrors of war from many angles
- Carriage rolling down steps
- Montage
- The Untouchables (1987) dir. Brian De Palma
- Inspired by Potemkin
- Arsenal (1929) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- Relates to complex political state of nation
- Striking use of dead yet laughing soldiers.
- Earth (1930) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- I Was Born, But… (1932) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Comedy about brothers, does not match mature reputation of director
- Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Most acclaimed film of director
- Filmed at a lower height
- Filmed between actors to show talking
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
- Also used the lower height
- The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Pauses in the film
- Osaka Elegy (1936) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Focuses on the misery of women in Japan, bold staging
- Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
- Similar framing as Mizoguchi
- Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Shows character’s moral indignation through framing
- Mizoguchi was known as a woman’s director
- Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz
- Inspired scene as in Osaka Elegy, but with a Hollywood gloss.
- Romance of the West Chamber (1927) dir. Hou Yao and Minwei Li
- Uses regular romanticism
- Scenes of City Life (1935) dir. Yuan Muzhi
- Uses inventive camera angles to portray seduction
- The Goddess (1934) dir. Wu Yonggang
- Tracking shot to show transfering whispers
- Many remember these movies as accurate reflections of society
- Center Stage (1991) dir. Stanley Kwan
- Repeat a scene from The Goddess, recreated beautifully.
- New Women (1935) dir. Cai Chusheng
- Famous actress died of an overdose after being bashed by press in similar circumstances to the character she played.