Notes
Episode 13 – New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia & Latin America
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1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid – Before the Coming of Digital.
- The Apple (1998) dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
- a handheld movie moved into the world of a young girl
- about a dad who wouldn’t let his girls live their lives
- characters played themselves in the film
- a reenactment
- A Moment of Innocence (1996) dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- used non professionals
- a policeman who director had stabbed came to auidition
- made film about stabbing
- policeman directed the film
- didn’t make it glamerous
- has a live moment where a character find out that he is being chearted on and walks out
- Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- made a little kid talk to mom while camera is hidden
- a great film about childhood and friednship
- And Life Goes On (1991) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- reality doubles back on itself
- about them going back to the site of the film after an earthquake
- Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
- filmed a young boy through a car
- love of simple reality
- Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar-wai
- focused on real people
- In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai
- time slows down
- suddenly rains like a movie
- hope left so film focused on sound
- Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas
- A City of Sadness (1989) dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
- hold a long shot for tension
- keeps the same shots going back to the same location
- Tokyo Story (1953) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Vive L’Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
- about loneliness of life in modern cities
- camera remains static
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
- combines erotic imagery with technology
- Videodrome (1983) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. David Cronenberg
- someones TV shoots him
- about adduction to technology
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
- uses 43 second of decayimng biology to represent a man dying
- La Roue (1923) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Abel Gance
- tetuseu was inspired by this
- Ringu (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata
- blue imagery
- a girl climbed out of a TV
- uses industrial loud noise
- combined 50 audio tracks
- The Exorcist (1973) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. William Friedkin
- inspired Ringu
- Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
- Ringu based scary long haired girl off of this
- Audition (1999) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Takashi Miike
- seemed to take place in a floating world
- a young girl auditions then the aidience realizes that she is a murderer
- uses stillness for fear
- Breaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier
- broke many of the dogmatic rules
- mostly handheld shots
- actors were free to move anywhere
- broke 180 degree axis rules
- church bells come from the sky
- has a shot from heaven
- ending has christian
- Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) dir. Tom Fontana
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier (introduced in Episode 2)
- used no sets building or props
- villagers enslave a woman and shackle her like a dog
- La Haine (1995) dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
- has a sttic camera
- stared at blank characters
- shows us a day in the life of several passengers on the train
- Do the Right Thing (1989) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Spike Lee
- Humanité (1999) dir. Bruno Dumont
- shows policeman walking along a landscape
- has a cold stare
- character has handcuffs at the end of the film
- Rosetta (1999) dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
- uses shot reverse shots as a character is running
- Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
- about a rebellious man who slaughters oxen
- African film
- Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis
- a woman photographs men
- films fight minimally
- main character kills himself
- has a dance sequence at the end
- Late Spring (1949) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- father is peeling an apple like a lonely man
- Crows (1994) dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
- uses celluloid in a not masculine way
- keeps framing as simple as possible to get a naturalistic performance
- Wednesday (1997) dir. Victor Kossakovsky
- 24 Realities a Second (2004) dir. Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor
- someone has tracked down everyone born in the same day as him in his city
- Code Unknown (2000) (a.k.a. Code inconnu) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Michael Haneke
- has an eleven minute shot
- we don’t connect as human beings in cities
- Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke
- two boys terrorize a family
- a character talks to the camera
- the film rewinds when a person presses rewind
- Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman
- the film seems to melt in this film
- we become the people on screen