Story of Film Episode 13 – New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia and Latin America

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Notes

The following material is from Wikipedia

1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid – Before the Coming of Digital.

• The Apple (1998) dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
  • shy
  • aren’t actors
• A Moment of Innocence (1996) dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
  • triumphant result of filming like a football coach
  • kept camera on sidelines
• And Life Goes On (1991) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
• Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
  • feelings
  • static camera shots
  • objective frontal shots
• Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar-wai
• In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai
  • nighttime celluloid vision
  • slowmotion
  • slow music and it starts to rain
• Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas
• A City of Sadness (1989) dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
  • long static shots of 40 seconds each
  • long shots hold tension
• Tokyo Story (1953) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
• Vive L’Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang
  • about modern cities
  • camera remains static with woman’s emotions
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
• Videodrome (1983) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. David Cronenberg
  • strange
• Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto
  • man transforms into gun
  • shots of biology
• La Roue (1923) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Abel Gance
• Ringu (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata
• The Exorcist (1973) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. William Friedkin
• Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
• Audition (1999) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Takashi Miike
• Breaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier
  • his best film in the 90s
  • mostly handheld shots
  • ultimate movie roughness
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) dir. Tom Fontana
• Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier (introduced in Episode 2)
  • sometimes operating camera himslef
  • camera movements are all rough
• La Haine (1995) dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
  • pan shot of characters face in slowmo
  • pans back of head then moves up to show wide view of setting
• Do the Right Thing (1989) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Spike Lee
• Humanité (1999) dir. Bruno Dumont
  • different style
  • camera hardly moves
• Rosetta (1999) dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
• Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
  • teenage hopes
• Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis
  • wide shot of two characters
  • walking around each other
  • slow motion single punch
• Late Spring (1949) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
  • peeling apple as lonely man
• Crows (1994) dir. Dorota Kędzierzawska
• Wednesday (1997) dir. Victor Kossakovsky
• 24 Realities a Second (2004) dir. Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor
• Code Unknown (2000) (a.k.a. Code inconnu) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Michael Haneke
  • one of the first shots that last over 11 minutes
• Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke
  • sums up last days of celluloid
• Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman