Episode 7 – European New Wave
Notes
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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
- movies had changed a lot since this film
- Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- one of the most sententious films of its time
- The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- in it, a night, agonizes about mortality
- Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- an autobiographical film
- in the film, the director confesses his guilt about his marriage
- Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson
- a film about imprisonment
- uses flat lighting
- uses 50 mm lense
- Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson
- about a donkey that is treated cruelly
- blank like the pick pocket film
- Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
- Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay
- attached to objects and the physical world
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Jacques Tati
- Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati
- shows hulots feelings about modern life
- disliked strong story telling
- films world in sunlight
- has a frame that doesn’t move where a man goes around a house and looks through the windows. The audiences eyes move
- Fellini’s Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini
- Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini
- was a very modern film for the time
- changed styles a few times during the film
- 8½ (1963) dir. Federico Fellini
- actors play directors
- has a lot of improv
- Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen
- a main character steps out of his own life and looks back at it
- Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agnès Varda
- captures the spirit of the new wave
- a woman gets cancer
- she is gradually less weighed down by the diagnosis
- Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
- this film questions what is real
- The 400 Blows (1959) dir. François Truffaut
- about the feeling of being alive
- À bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- godards first film
- had cuts in the same shot but with a slightly different background
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- jump cuts are used in this film to show a mans mental agitiation
- Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- Une femme mariée (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader
- was inspired by godard
- Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- captured the directors life experiences
- The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
- challenged the way religion portrays Mary
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone
- leone was inspired by samurai films
- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Sergio Leone
- uses the idea that time in cinema should be real like life
- Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray
- someone prowl like a cat while waiting for a train to bring change
- Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti
- had bright colors and lights, lower class vs upper class
- Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti
- about sympathies for the poor
- L’eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- the film becomes a random persons walk
- The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
- The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos
- camera slowly withdraws to show street
- The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri
- was a comedy
- people wore toilets on there heads
- What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
- spain mocks the new wave
- Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buñuel
- was banned in many theaters
- I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjöman
- about someone who confronts life head on
- La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache
- deals with the defeat of the new wave