Week 10 | Date: 3/28/12 | Postwar/1960s | Reading: Short History of Film 6, 7, 8 Film History.

Week 10 | Date: 3/28/12 |

Postwar/1960s | Reading: Short

History of Film 6, 7, 8

Film History

Film History

Nouvelle vague/New Wave

Bresson | Camus| Rohmer | Resnais | Godard | Truffaut | Malle

Nouvelle vague/New Wave

Nouvelle vague/New Wave

<-400 Blows

<-Jules and Jim

Breathless

New WaveThe impact of Alexandre Astruc: cinema as “the art of the age”; “camera-stylo” [camera-pen].André Bazin’s influence [Cahiers du Cinema].The break with literature.Location shooting.New approach to acting.Independence from studios.The centrality of the director (birth of the “auteur theory”).

The French New Wave | Another New Wave Site | Baseline Encyclopedia of Film on The New Wave

Robert Bresson (French, 1901-1999)

Diary of a Country Priest (1950)Trial of Joan of Arc (1962)

Film History

Marcel Camus (1912-1982)

Black Orpheus

FrenchFrench

Éric Rohmer(1920- )La Collectionneuse (The Collector) Ma Nuit chez Maud (My Night with Maud)Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee) L'Amour l'après-midi (Chloe in the Afternoon, Love in the Afternoon) Die Marquise von O... (The Marquise of O)Le Signe du lionLa Femme de l'aviateur (The Aviator's Wife)Le Beau marriage (A Good Marriage)Pauline à la plage (Pauline at the Beach)Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) Conte de printemps (A Tale of Springtime)Conte d'hiver (A Winter's Tale) Conte d'été (A Summer's Tale) Conte d'automne (Autumn Tale)

Film History

Alain Resnais (French, 1922- )

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959)Last Year at Marienbad (1961)Providence (1977)

Film History

Trailer for the Re-Release of

Last Year at Marienbad

Jean-Luc Goddard (French, 1930- )

Breathless (1960)Alphaville (1965)Masculine/Feminine (1966)Weekend (1967)Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967)

Film History

Watch the Finale of Breathless on the Film History Blog

Jean-Luc Godard

“The cinema is not an art which filmslife: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”

“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”

"Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end,’ harrumphed French filmmaker Georges Franju. . . ." "Certainly," replied Jean-Luc Godard. "But not necessarily in that order."

Film History

François Truffaut (French, 1932-1984)

400 Blows (1959)Shoot the Piano Player (1960)Jules and Jim (1961)Fahrenheit 451 (1966)Day for Night (1973)

Film History

On the Film History Blog:Watch the Finale of 400 Blows

Watch a Scene from Jules and Jim

A. O Scott on Jules and Jim

Watch a Scene from Close Encounters on YouTube

Louis Malle (1932-1995)

The Lovers (1958)Murmur of the Heart (1971)Pretty Baby (1978)Atlantic City (1980)My Dinner with Andre (1981)Au revoir les enfants (1987)

Film History

The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003)

Film History

Post-WW II Auteurs

Aldrich | Antonioni | Ford | Hitchcock | Huston | Kazan | Kurosowa | Lean | Minnelli | Ozu | N. Ray | S. Ray | Reed | Sirk | Stevens | Wilder | Wood | Wyler

Film History

Robert Aldrich (American, 1918-1993)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)The Dirty Dozen (1967)The Longest Yard (1974)

Film History

Lindsay Anderson (British, 1923-1994)

This Sporting Life (1963)If . . . (1968)O Lucky Man! (1972)

Film History

Watch the Ending of If . . . On the Film

History Blog

Lindsay Anderson Whack Malcolm

McDowell Upside the Head

Lindsay Anderson with my British Film Class, London, 1992

Film History

Michelangelo Antonioni (Italian, 1912-2007)

L’Avventura (1960)L’Notte (1961)L’Ecclise (1962)Blow-Up (1966)Zabriskie Point (1969)The Passenger (1976)

Film History

Ingmar Bergman (Swedish, 1918-2007)

Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)The Seventh Seal (1957)Wild Strawberries (1957)Through a Glass Darkly (1961)Persona (1966)Cries and Whispers (1972)Autumn Sonata (1978)Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Film History

John Ford (American, 1895-1973)

Stagecoach (1939)The Grapes of Wrath (1940)My Darling Clementine (1946)Fort Apache (1948)She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)The Searchers (1956)The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Film History

Watch the Ending of The Searchers

Alfred Hitchcock (British-American, 1889-1980)

The Man Who Knew too Much

(1934, 1956)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

39 Steps (1935)

Rebecca (1940)

Saboteur (1942)

Spellbound (1945)

Notorious (1946)

Film History

Alfred Hitchcock

Rope (1948)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

Rear Window (1954)

Dial M for Murder (1954)

The Trouble with Harry (1954)

Vertigo (1958)

North by Northwest (1959)

Psycho (1960)

The Birds (1963) Film History

Watch Psycho, High Anxiety Shower Scenes

John Huston (American, 1906-1987)The Maltese Falcon (1941)The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)Key Largo (1948)The Asphalt Jungle (1950)African Queen (1952)Moby-Dick (1956)Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)—as Noah Cross

Film History

End of Chinatown

Eliza Kazan (Turkish-American, 1909-2003)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)On the Waterfront (1954)East of Eden (1955)A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Film History

Akira Kurosowa (Japanese, 1910-1998)

Rashomon (1950)The Seven Samurai (1954)Throne of Blood (1957)Kagemusha (1980)Ran (1985)Dreams (1990)

Film History

David Lean (British, 1908-1991)

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)Lawrence of Arabia (1962)Doctor Zhivago (1965)A Passage to India (1984)

Film History

Vincent Minnelli (American, 1910-1986)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)Madame Bovary (1949)An American in Paris (1951)The Band Wagon (1953)Brigadoon (1954)Lust for Life (1956)

Film History

Yasujiro Ozu (Japanese, 1903-1963)

Tokyo Story (1953)

Film History

Nicholas Ray (American, 1911-1979)

Knock on Any Door (1949)On Dangerous Ground (1951)Johnny Guitar (1953)Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Film History

Satyajit Ray (1902-1992)

Pather Panchali (1955)Aparajito (1956)

Film History

Carol Reed (British, 1906-1976)

The Third Man (1949)Our Man in Havana (1959)The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)Oliver! (1968)

Film History

The Third Man on Film History Blog

Douglas Sirk (German-American, 1910-1987)Magnificent Obsession (1954)All That Heaven Allows (1955)Written on the Wind (1956)Imitation of Life (1959)

Film History

George Stevens (American, 1904-1975)

Gunga Din (1939)A Place in the Sun (1951)Shane (1953)Giant (1956)

Film History

Watch the Trailer for

Shane.

Billy Wilder (Hungarian-American, 1906-2002)

Double Indemnity (1944)The Lost Weekend (1945)Sunset Boulevard (1950)Ace in the Hole (1951)Some Like It Hot (1959)The Apartment (1960)

Film History

Wilder Clips on the Film History Blog:

Trailers for Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard; A.O. Scott on Sunset Boulevard

Ed Wood (American, 1924-1978)

Glen and Glenda (1953)Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)

A Taste of Tim Burton’s Ed Wood

Film History

William Wyler (American, 1902-1981)

Jezebel (1938)Wuthering Heights (1939)The Little Foxes (1941)The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)Roman Holiday (1953)Ben-Hur (1959)

Film History