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1964
Dir: Jean Luc Godard
Story Love triangle develops between co-conspirators in a crime |
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1959
Dir: Francois Truffaut
French New Wave
Story: semi-autobiographical story of Antoine Doinel, a boy trapped in a life of contemptuous authority who turns to outward rebellion.
WWII: 1. French new wave classic that creates a stir, influences American Filmmakers
2. Rebellious anti hero
3. Shows divide between youth and older generation |
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1960
Dir: Jean Luc Godard
Story: Thief on the rrun from the law pursues the love of his life in Paris
WWII: 1. Brilliant tule breaking cinema. Radical interpretation of film nu'es.
2. Introduces the JumpCut
3. Cool anti hero
4. Long meaningless dialog scenes |
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1962
Dir: John Frankenheimer
story: a former Korean POW is brainwashed into becoming a political assassin |
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| The Good the Bad and the Ugly |
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1966
Dir: Sergio Leone (Italian Film)
WWII: 1. Italian "Spaghetti Wester: which mad Clint a star
2. Brilliant score by Ennie Morricone |
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1967
Dir: Arthur Penn
Story: Gun toting couple rob bank's during the depression
WWII: 1. Rebellious young anti heroes catches imagination of youth.
2. Made cheaply ; but made a lot of money - surprising Hollywood
3. Young director Penn used ideas from French New Wave
4. Combo of Humor, violence and music was unique.
5. First film to show shooter and victim in same shot. |
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| Early version of genre where conventions are worked out |
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| Easily identifiable films that define a genre |
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| Conventions are questioned and experimented with |
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| Genre is mocked or made fun of |
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| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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1969
Dir: George Roy Hill
Story: Cowboy thieves on the run from the law
WWII: 1. Rebellious and lovable anti heroes who steal from and unliable rich class
2. Major paining of 2 top stars of the day in a buddy film.
3. Brilliant use of film medium and cinematography
4. Revisionist Western W/ other genres mixed in - musical
5. Soundtrack is mixture of 60's pop not period or western. |
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1968
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Story: Mysterious obelisk visits Earth and leads Mankind to pursue mystery of its origins
WWII: 1. America's first major art film
2. no dialogue in first 20 or last 25 minutes
3. Incredible cinematography that revolutionizes techniques for scifi. Matte painting introduced, super wide panavision, animation, miniatures, real projections.
4. Incredible mise en scene. Kubrick style; symmetry. Balance
5. Connection to Space Race which culminates in Moon landing in 1969 |
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1969
Dir: Dennis Hopper
Story: Two coke dealing friends take a trip from LA to NO to discover America.
WWII: First independent film. financed by hopper and forta for 340,000 made 50 million world wide
2. huge box office success that shocked hollywood establishment
3. shows the use of drugs and in particular introduces cocaine to many
4. Serves as a metaphor for America's reaction to youth's quest for freedom.
5. Chronicled hippie generation from within.
6. Use of all rock/pop soundtrack became 70's trend.
7. Handheld, improvised, low budget style was successful
8. road trip film, buddy film, biker film - makes nicholson a star
9. major successes of r new hollywood - spawns many imitations and inspired diverse groups to make films for their community; blacks, gay, etc.
10. Free to use music; no licenses. |
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1969
Dir: John Schlesinger
Story: Country Joe moves to NYC to find fortune as a gigilo until he falls on hard times and meets his manager Rizzo a street hustler. |
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1973
Dir: Martin Scorsese
Story: 4 street hustlers in NYC play their trade and try to get ahead
WWII: 1. Beginning of Scorsese
2. Low budget success
3. About by and for Italian community |
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1971
Dir: Gordon Parks
Story: Black detective solves crime and makes love in a tough NYC
WWII: 1. first black directed major release
2. for by and about the black community
3. low budget - but very successful |
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1977
Dir: John Badham
Story: NY nightlife star seeks to elevate his station in life through dancing
2. Captures mid 70's disco movement and actually revives it inn the hinterland though it had began to fade in NYC
3. soundtrack becomes a huge hit and promotes use of soundtrack to sell films. |
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| One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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1975
Dir: Milos Forman
Story: Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on Nurse Ratched.
WWII: 1. Brilliant adaptation of book by Ken Tesey of Merry Prankster fame
2. Independently produced by Michael Douglas
3. Actually caused a reexamination of US mental hospitals practices especially shock therapy. Many hospitals closed.
4. Parallels the death of counter culture, and the emergence of free spirit. |
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1975
Dir: Steven Spielberg
Story: When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
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1. Beginning of Blockbuster era.
2. First film to be released nation-wide on the same date. |
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1976
Dir: John G Auildsor
Story: small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in which he strives to go the distance for his self respect.
WWII: 1. Steadicam - steps smooth shots
2. Blockbuster. |
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| Series of images over music that show the passage of time or develop a relationship |
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| Long lens designed to allow focus on a far away subject, small depth of field |
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| technique in which focus shifts from one subject to another in the same shot |
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| Lens which allows adjustment of focal length from wide to long. resulting in a zoom in or out, bring the subject closer or farther. |
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| how a director frames the subject matter, what it shows us or leaves out |
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| placing an object in front of the camera to alter the frame, can give the illusion of binoculars, a telescope or diving mask. |
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| the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things w/ a symbolic meaning or character. ex: the cross represents Christianity. |
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| The director's craft; where cameras go and what they film. |
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1985
Dir: Terry Gilliam
Story: Humble everyman navigates his dreams and the horrific reality of a future dystopian state
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1. monty python alum gilliam's first and best feature |
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1987
Dir: Oliver Stone
Story: Young stock broker gets seduced by his master into betraying his values
WWII: 1. Exposed corruption and greed of wall st. industry
2. Michael Douglas' "greed is Good" speech |
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1967
Dir: Mike Nichols
Story: College graduate returns home to a life he doesn't want. He falls into a dangerous affair which strangely leads to true love.
WWII: 1. Brilliantly portrays growing generation gap
2. Displays so cal upper middle class culture of time
3. Amazing use of camera and mise en scene
4. Breakout role for dennis hoffman
5. often paid homage to. Appears in jokes and other films. cougar term.
6. seminal soundtrack by simon and garfunkal
7. this film is the beginning of the prominent use of pop music in soundtracks |
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1981
Dir: Steven Spielsberg
Story: American archaeologist battles Nazis searching for lost ark of the covenant which has awesome power |
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1979
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola
Story: Captain must find and kill crazy general in Vietnam |
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| New Hollywood era starter movies |
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| Bonny and Clyde and Easy Rider |
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| A movement in late 70's and 80's in art literature and film that saw artists revising old paradigms and mixing new and old. |
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| Ending for blockbusters are.. |
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- No war economic prosperity
- Suburbs grow
- Education increase
- Birth control pills
- Baby boom coming of age - overpopulating schools
- Infidelity
- General gap growing (culture grows liberal) |
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| JFK elected, MLK, Cuban Missile,Johnson replaces kennedy after 63 assassination, great society (welfare, racial equality, vietnam 1959-75 |
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| Bloated Era 59-66, betterment of tech (light equipment, better lens and films), studio system dies (studio execs out of touch), TV widespread, movie attendance dips to low in 66, new writers and directors to hollywood from tv, foreign films influencing young directors. |
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| mid 60's socially/politically |
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| Johnson wins, MLK march on washington 63', Johnson legacy (civil rights, voting rights), college campuses rebel against Vietnam, Drugs and sex, economic prosperity,hippie movement starts 64' peaks in 67', woodstock 69' |
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| production code deteriorating until 68' when replaced by MPA ratings (R PG), films reflect youth culture and interests, bloated era ends 67', Directors from tv and theater bring new ideas (frankenheimer, penn, lumet, nichols), tech increase. |
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59'-66'
Def: Era where studios are old and out of touch;
Why: young audience with new interests, competition from tv, directors making same films over and over
What films were like: Big budget epics, less creative |
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| After 1966 studios make changes |
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| hire young executives, hire young directors from tv and theater, revisionist films appear. |
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mid 60's.
Location shooting becomes standard, actors directors want out of contracts that restrict art choices. |
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| Hollywood notes late 60's |
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| attendance slowly rises, young directors (new hollywood), try to capture hippie movement with corny films. |
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| Economic prosperity, youth and their interests, Robert Kennedy and MLK assassinated, Nixon elected in 68', increase vietnam involvement, woodstock 69', sex and drugs, anti war, black panthers, summer riots, draft dodgers go to canada, vietnam footage on tv, altamont music violence 69', 70' kent state, |
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| production code ends 68' replaced by rating system, easy rider sparks new hollywood, films more violent and sexual, films use rock/pop soundtrack no licensing fees, tech increase, youth directors |
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67'-74' started with Bonny and clyde and Easy Rider
Older execs hand over control to youngins, young directs from tv and film school, sex and violence, rebellious, low budgets, dark and cynical stories and endings, hand held and experimental use of camera, popular rock/pop music, revisionist genre, character driven and less plot driven, rejection of hollywood conventions (lower budget, unhappy ending, experimental camera and sound, character driven) |
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| Death of stars Hendrix drug and alc consumption, Civil Rights militant (black panthers), House, car, and income all rise, Nixon wins 72' election, youth vs nixon, Oil Crisis, 73' abortion legalized, watergate, college population increase to escape draft, Hippie movement dies out, 70' kent shooting, Patty Hearst bank robber, TV response Happy Days set in 50's (recreated time idealized by older generations), growth in women's rights, slow withdraw from vietnam in 73'-75', drugs usage surges as vets return (heroin) |
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| Directors from film schools (Coppola UCLA, George Lucas USC, Scorsese NYU), Cable tv and pay tv emerges (new market for hollywood films, more sex and violence, HBO premiers 72', Multi plex theaters. |
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| Directors that went to film school: Traits |
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| Exposed to foreign films like French New waves, Learned film history and paid homage to it in their films, learned classic techniques and brought fresh ideas and youthful spirit, were children of the 60's sought to revolutionize film industry |
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| Major trends in film early 70's |
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| cop films, gritty city films, unhappy endings, heroes change (lonely outsiders and anti heroes become uncommon), sex and violence, film directed to certain demographic (italian, blacks), influence from European film is felt. |
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| When sound from a scene is bled ito the previous or next scene |
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| music composed for a movie |
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| brownish tin to film making it look older |
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| getting rights to songs for a film; not until mid 70's that they begin charging large fees for using the songs |
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| visionary for look of film, designs or selects sets props, costumes |
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| designs costumes used in a film |
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| all the scenery, props, costumes and general look of the physical film |
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| frames of words indicating sections of the film or giving info about character or film |
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| collection of music used in the film and released for sale to public |
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| established in 68'. G, M, R, X |
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| Mid 70's-Late 70's Historical |
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| county as a whole absorbs counter culture, nixon resigns in 74', vietnam ends in 75', 77' oil embargo wait in line for gas, nuke power, 3 mile island incident 79', cocaine and marijuana, sexuality and promiscuity, feminism, disco on the coasts, Iran Hostage ushers in Reagan. |
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| mid 70's-late 70's film making |
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| movie audience young educated, pornographic theaters on rise, no bankable female stars except stiesand, no female directors, macho era with male stars, filmmakers forced to cut scenes or edit language to earn a pg rating (production code kind of reasserted), Music licensing fees become common. |
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76'-Present Began with Jaws (released everywhere on one date)
Characteristics: Big budget and marketing campaign, escapism, hero for the masses (usually slightly flawed good guy), clear goal conflict and ending (return to hollywood style), marketing tie ins to fast food and toys, summer releases, target teens, easily exported to world market, film school generation directors, postmodern, happy endings |
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| Effects of the Blockbuster |
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| Higher budget for special effects, appeal to mass world market (dialogue and characters simplified), socially/politically neutral, mass marketing, big name stars, WOW at beginning |
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| NYU Mean streets, Gritty crime stories |
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| revised and made fresh many old genres |
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| borrowed from childhood or foreign directors |
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| political when young but when older.. |
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| mass marketing, less adventurous, nationalism, escapism, good virtuous heroes, vcr, widescreen down, made lots of $, Underground/cult films do well, sequels, action film, teen sex romp, horror |
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| American self assurance down, recession, stock crash 87', crack epidemic, war on drugs, prison increases, |
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| Video stores, movie attendance drops |
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| Getting rich is goal of youth in 80's |
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| High School films of the era |
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| Fast time at ridgemont high 82', back to the future 85', risky business 83', breakfast club 85', |
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| back to the future, peggy sue get married, the outsiders, raiders of the lost ark |
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| first blood, rambo, top gun |
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