Story of Film Episode 12 – Fight the Power: Protest in Fil

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Notes

The following material is from Wikipedia

The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest – Around the World.

• The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
• Yellow Earth (1985) dir. Chen Kaige
• Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou
• House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
• Repentance (1984) dir. Tengiz Abuladze
• Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
• Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov
• Long Goodbyes (1971) dir. Kira Muratova
  • zooming out to show two different subjects and establish conflict
  • Music signals when action starts
• A Short Film About Killing (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • about fear
  • 35 shots to show action
• Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • lets people cross the road yet doesn’t know she will die
• Wend Kuuni (1983) dir. Gaston Kaboré
  • landmark in African cinema
  • camera follows main subject
  • flashback within a flashback
• Yeelen (1987) dir. Souleymane Cissé
• Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) (music video) dir. Russell Mulcahy
• Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne
• Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott
  • rich color and closeups of pilots with wide shots of ships
• Blue Velvet (1986) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. David Lynch
• The Elephant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch
• Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
  • protest
  • saturated color
  • camera tracks main events
• The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed (introduced in Episode 5)
• Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) dir. John Sayles
• Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson
  • filmed as a car chase but on skates
  • his pov
  • wide angles and depth
• Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax
  • fireworks and lots of action in both foreground and background
• An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced in Episode 5)
• Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Richard Lester
• The Quince Tree Sun (1992) dir. Víctor Erice
  • man painting tree for weeks
  • natural light and no camera moves
• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
• My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas
  • boy is brought up in poverty
  • always behind grandma
  • pov
• Gregory’s Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth
• Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies
  • family home terrorized by brutal father
  • hallway view
  • memory images
• Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)
• Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
  • crane shots
  • painful moment yet smooth camera into beautiful world
• A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway
• The Last of England (1988) dir. Derek Jarman
  • fast cuts
  • like Italian rubble movie after ww2
  • repetitive images
• Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
• Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
  • boundry between hard and soft
  • no music or outside noise
• Neighbours (1952) dir. Norman McLaren
  • nwighbors fight over flower
  • electronic composition

• Jesus of Montreal (1989) dir. Denys Arcand
  • audience walks to follow action