1965-1969: New Waves – Sweep Around the World.

• Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda
  • A movie full of symbolism about the state of the world.
• Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Roman Polanski
  • Director shown very young here.
• Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier
  • Inspired Roman.
• Knife in the Water (1962) dir. Roman Polanski
  • One of the most claustrophobic films.
  • Did not deal with war.
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
  • A comedy, Polanski died by the Mansons after entering Hollywood.
• The Hand (1965) dir. Jiří Trnka
  • A symbolic animated film, stop motion and live action.
• The Fireman’s Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
  • A comedy about incompetent firemen.
  • Filmed like a documentary.
• Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová
  • Sound effects make the women sound wooden.
  • Very experimental and colorful.
• The Red and the White (1968) dir. Miklós Jancsó
  • 3 minute shot of a soldier watching his friend be captured.
  • Used to raise suspense.
  • Keeps away from actor’s faces till the very end.
• Une journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker
  • Shows Andrei lining up a shot.
• Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • A tracking shot is shown from a balloon.
  • Banned for six years.
• The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Themes of ascension and christianity.
• Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Ending scene not directly related to the events of the film, but very related to the film overall.
• Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Reflections in the pool of water show a ruined cathedral that was previously not shown by the camera, which contained the film.
• Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • Camera angles track to the environment, with heavy use of the foreground.
• Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
  • Shows Parajanov directing his actors like he is directing an orchestra.
• Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • Shows Japan as greedy through a pessimistic lense.
• In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • Framed by a window in the foreground.
• Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii
• The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shōhei Imamura
  • Insect symbolizes humans struggling with life.
  • Difference between child and person shown by camera focus.
• Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
  • Deep space.
• Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shōhei Imamura
  • Interview with a very blunt woman.
• Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • Very emotional films, classical melodrama.
• The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • About India’s original sin.
  • Striking opening shot.
• Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • Manipulated audio from conversation.
• Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul
  • Very precise pacing to the films, made to be slower.
• Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
  • Opposite to standard films of Brazil.
• I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
  • Very impressive camera movements.
• The House Is Black (1963) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
  • Founding Iranian film.
  • Shots rhyme together
• Black Girl (1966) dir. Ousmane Sembène
  • Deals with the virtue and monotony of work.
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz
  • Shot naturally in the streets of middle Britain.
• Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach
  • Emulates Czeck lighting.
  • Shot reverse shot.
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
  • Sped up film shows the excitement of the youth.
• Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew
  • Camera freely follows Kennedy regardless of gloss.
• Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes
  • Style of Primary used for three stories here.
• Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • Very fast cutting between a multitude of camera angles.
• 66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jørgen Leth
  • Very blank in appearance.
• Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols
  • Harsh lighting.
• Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler
  • Pulled together documentary, film and television
• Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper
  • Defines the era, captures carefree feeling of the day.
• Making “The Shining” (1980) dir. Vivian Kubrick
  • Shows Kubrick’s love of camera positioning.
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Stanley Kubrick
  • Cuts more time than any other edit in cinema history.
  • Camera shows that in space there is no center.
• Der Sieger (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann
  • Gave inspiration to scenes of A Space Odyssey