Story of Film Episode 15 – Cinema Today and the Future

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Notes

The following material is from Wikipedia

2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle – and the Future of Movies.

• Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach
  • putting piano in swiss alps
  • always know something will go wrong
  • silly but funny
• Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
  • soft top lighting
• Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
• Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass
• Être et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert
• Zidane – A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
  • documentary
  •  one of the most innovative films of its time
  • became almost mythic
  • subtitles for thoughts
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik
• Way Down East (1920) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
  • softly lit
  • full circle
• Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • one of the most innovative fiction films of its time
  • face half obscured
  • plane of focus carefully chosen
• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu
• The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel
  • out of focus headless
  • mysterious
• Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas
• Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong
• Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho
  • landscapes
  • depth view
  • switching between pov and other shots
  • tunnel seems haunted
  • simply shot conversation
  • stare into camera
• Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook
• 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.
• Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch
• Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky
  • people on drugs
  • how drugs distort the world
  • paranoid dream
• Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
  • symbols of religion are being dumped
• Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne
  • simplicity and funny
• Indiscreet (1958) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Stanley Donen
  • combining worlds
  • used splitscreen to get rid of censorship
• Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary
  • split screen
  • in the middle of flirtatious scene
  • cameras pull out and the two worlds combine
  • images were stitched together digitally
• Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron
  • computers helped create a new reality
  • lets camera flow around character
  • facial expressions were filmed separately
• Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas
• Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov
  • a mother is dying and her son tends her
• Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov
  • most inventive ever made
• 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
  • metaphor for what film going could become
  • wake up in a plane and his friends have all been dreaming together
  • they dream within a dream and gravity is in a blink
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry
  • people start disappear
  • being put into a brainwashing
  • girl no longer has a face
  • eyes are upside down on another face