Episode 15 – Cinema Today and the Future
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2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle – and the Future of Movies.
- Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach
- about clash with reality
- film makers always ask what happens next
- had drunk man to come up with crazy ideas
- Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- a woman takes off a monkey costume and turn into a pretty woman
- Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore
- about the story of two families
- very influential
- The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass
- was like a documentary
- has fiction with rough documentary shots
- Être et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert
- character based
- a teacher is retiring
- captures sadness
- Zidane – A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
- used long lense
- documentary
- thoughts were subtitles even though he didn’t speak
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik
- uses sepia colors
- very raw footage
- Way Down East (1920) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
- delicate photo realism
- Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- has very intimate and sad scene
- sad film about marriage
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu
- about a dying man in a hospitle
- The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel
- has a car accident with slow editing
- a woman hits someone and drives away
- Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas
- another movie with a car
- uses rain
- Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong
- a man is released from prison and is talking nonsense
- is antisocial
- friends with another tragic person
- Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho
- about a serial killer who murders multiple women
- pov shot that goes to darkness
- Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook
- a man was locked up for 15 years and not told why
- want to take revenge
- attacks like 14 people at once
- 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.
- first science fiction film
- Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch
- about a girl who wants to see what movie stars lives are like
- a man sees her commit a though crime
- hires a man to kill him
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky
- interesting look about people on drugs
- about how drugs distort the world
- someone is scared of their own arm
- Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
- a man has burned down his business, everyone starts singing like a musical fantasy
- many people stand up from the land out of nowhere
- Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne
- shot square on and symetrical
- Indiscreet (1958) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Stanley Donen
- uses split screen to make it look like people are in the same bed
- Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary
- uses split screen to show two peoples days before they meet
- Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron
- transforms into an alien creature
- everything is cgi except faces
- Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas
- Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- background is simple
- has natural light in the background, film cuts out halfway through and starts a new story
- from friendship to hunter and hunted
- Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov
- about a mother who dies in her sons arms
- has beautiful imagery
- plain color pallet
- Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov
- one of the most inventive films ever
- the last of the great balls
- whole movie was in one take, shot
- In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2003) dir. Knut Elstermann
Epilogue the Year 2046
- Inception (2010) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Christopher Nolan
- a metephor about what filmgoing could become
- gravity breaks
- uses orange color
- has dreams in dreams in dreams
- uses handhelled camera during action
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry
- people start to disapear in someones memories because they are being erased erased
- becomes nightmare
- hopefully memories of the history of film are not erased