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
- Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- More sensual than most of the time.
- Allows the actress to look into the camera.
- The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- A knight questions his religion through his senses.
- Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Portrays god as dead.
- Confesses his mistreatment of his wife.
- Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Makes the film the movie is on part of the visuals with a brief montage.
- Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
- The opening is dull and flattened, the film has no flair to it.
- Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson
- The cinematography is blank and emotionless.
- Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Mimics restraint of pickpocket.
- Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay
- Attached to objects in the way Bresson was.
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Jacques Tati
- Shows how Tati responds to Chaplin.
- Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati
- The old world is given a warm and vivid view.
- The new world is colorless and flat.
- In one scene, the frame never moves, just the eyes.
- Fellini’s Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini
- Vivid lighting and extravagant props.
- Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini
- A great contrast between the feeling of each scene elevates emotions.
- 8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
- The script was always written last minute.
- Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen
- Influenced by 8 ½.
- Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda
- Flips between greyscale and color.
- Movie flows with emotion.
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
- Unreliable narrator, a theme of uncertainty.
- The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut
- Reference to zoetrope.
- About living in the moment.
- À bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Very close camera cuts show no transition.
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- Cuts show man’s internal agitation.
- Une femme mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Scene mimicked by American Gigolo
- American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
- Copies scene from Une femme mariee
- Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Uses grand scores to elevate the story.
- Strong sense of grace.
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Pictured Mary simply.
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Influenced The Gospel
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
- Foreground and background focused through deep staging.
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Sergio Leone
- Time stands still while gunmen wait.
- Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray
- Idea in once upon a time taken from here, expands the awaiting of the future.
- Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti
- The commoners look down upon the aristocracy, despite it being a ritual favoring them.
- Uses crane shots.
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti
- Sympathy for the poor, shows the hardship of a nomadic life looking for work.
- Shoots from a tram as a crane shot.
- L’eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- Unconventional framing of people.
- At the end, the actress walks out of the film, never to return.
- The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- At the ending, the camera leaves Jack’s character, much as the other character left in L’eclisse, Jack is found dead later.
- The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
- The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri
- Strange comedy, mocks the living condition of an old man.
- A combination of realism and irony.
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- Same sort of family as The Wheelchair.
- Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buñuel
- The most banned film Luis ever made.
- Extremely shocking situations.
- I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjöman
- Woman confronts Martin Luther King during internal argument
- La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache
- Man shows his despair straight through the camera through monologue.