2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle – and the Future of Movies.

• Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach
  • I love Laurel and Hardy! My grandpa used to show them all to me.
  • Very inventive with catastrophe.
• Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • Like Swiss Miss, there is a gorilla. 
  • Hollywood being strange and playful.
• Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore
  • Reality became bigger than fiction.
  • One of the most successful documentaries.
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass
  • Made as much as Fahrenheit 9/11.
  • Fiction, but filmed in a more documentary style.
• Être et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert
  • Shows great sadness in the retiring teacher.
• Zidane – A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
  • Takes the viewer in the mind of one of the players.
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik
  • Shallow, sepia footage, with de-focused edges.
• Way Down East (1920) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • Very soft lighting.
• Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • Carefully chosen planes of focus.
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu
  • Follows a man, going from full hospital to full hospital, and slowly dying.
  • Very realist.
• The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel
  • Static camera gives a secretive tone.
  • Framing makes her literally headless.
• Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas
• Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong
  • Very dark story line.
• Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho
  • Flat planes of yellow, made from the grass of the fields.
  • Breakthrough at the end is sadly underwhelming for the detective.
• Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook
  • Very interesting cross-section fight scene. Camera stays on a dolly for the whole fight.
• Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Georges Méliès (Although Mark Cousins and the title on the screen indicate that the scene being shown is from La lune à un mètre, the scene is actually from Le Voyage dans la lune.
  • Dreamlike and surreal content.
• Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch
  • Filmed like a daydream in some sections.
  • Strange audio mixing.
• Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky
  • Gives a strange and realistic portrayal of drug usage.
  • The film feels paranoid.
• Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
  • Drab green color contrasts with sudden and grand score.
  • Themes of guilt.
  • Inspired by Laurel and Hardy.
• Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne
• Indiscreet (1958) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Stanley Donen
• Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary
  • Similar split screen to Indiscreet.
  • Cameras pull back to match, and the frame is made whole.
• Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron
  • All the CGI was tempered with motion captured faces.
• Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas
  • Shows how the CGI was done for Avatar.
• Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Filmed naturally, as a hazy summer day.
  • Switches to the intense life of the soldier very suddenly.
• Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov
  • Filmed very peacefully at the moment of a mother’s death.
  • Beautiful imagery.
• Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov
  • Slowly moving camera shows all who are about to be killed in the uprising.
  • Whole movie was filmed in a single take.
• In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2003) dir. Knut Elstermann
  • Handheld camera shows the relief of the end of the movie being filmed.

Epilogue the Year 2046

• Inception (2010) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Christopher Nolan
  • Music is very atmospheric.
  • Within each dream, the style of the film changes, for color, camera and sound.
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry
  • Very jumpy soundtrack, and filmed like a crime drama.