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1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…
- Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
- Revolutionary film, set stage for many to come after
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
- Huge, beautiful set
- Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
- Lighting used to make eyelash cast a shadow on actress’s face
- Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
- Dolly shots used to make the image “glide”
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Dancing fantasy musical scene
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- Dance scene with beautiful lighting
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
- Harder lighting and sharper shadows to match the theme of the movies
- The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Sparkling and elegant showmanship
- The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
- Scene of man fascinated by a camera
- One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
- Architectural short comedy
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
- Silent cinema of cuts
- Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
- Camera angle made actor stunts look more dangerous
- Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
- Spontaneous scene of Keaton pretending to stop and start train
- The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
- Labor, extras, and actors were cheap
- Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
- Deadpan comedy scene of old men sitting on roof
- Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Exaggerated body movements and facial expressions to make up for lack of sound
- City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Comic scene where man nearly falls into hole in ground
- The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Recreated rooms and relationships of Chaplin’s childhood
- Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- Closeups to show anxious energy in hands
- The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Hitler kicking baloon is a metaphor for dictator making the world his toy
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
- Actor had similar but almost opposite mannerisms of Chaplin
- Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
- Actor had similar jabby and confident mannerisms to Chaplin
- Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
- Actor went through street causing a scene and stealing, like Chaplin
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
- Impersonation of Chaplin
- Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
- Scene similar to “The Great Dictator”
- Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
- Movie was seen as too similar to Chaplin’s style
- Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
- “Nerdy look” of actor with big black rimmed glasses
- Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Another high stress scene of a man practically dangling off a building
- Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Actor climbs building and is attacked by a pigeon
- I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- Scene of a student standoff with some police
…And the First of its Rebels
- Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
- Longest non-fiction film in history at the time
- The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
- Documentary of people with leprosy in home
- Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
- Film of real places and people in Japan with fictional commentary
- The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
- Montage of man’s war memories as poems with scenes of him filmed on street
- The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
- Short documentary about a couple
- The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
- Remake of “The Perfect Human” with new challenges and themes
- Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- Scene of man filmed straight on and zoomed in
- The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
- Realist detailed scenes, like director showing actress how to comb her hair
- Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- Very successful film of dentist’s wife who wins lottery and becomes greedy
- Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
- Ultra-realism became stigmatized, and Stroheim could no longer make his creative movies
- Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- Scene of a fictional movie star watching one of her old movies, that was a real one, movie never was aired
- The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
- Greatest pre-wallstreet crash picture of it’s time
- The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
- Dissolved scenes of huge office
- The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
- Force perspective scene of huge crowds/places
- Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
- Played with ideas of realism, utilized angles and modernized costumes to make the setting of Mars more realistic
- Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
- Film focused on Scholar, with experimental lighting
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- 15th century Catholic girl accused of witchcraft, who denies God to save her own life, extremely emotional
- Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Radical simplification of story, asked actress to set up kitchen as if it was her own so she would feel comfortable
- The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Simplifies and purifies images in “protestant way”
- Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Scene with shadows against a white wall that have a life of their own
- Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- A woman believes in the power of love, and reads poems to her husband
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
- Completely setless, opposite of extravagant cinema
- Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- Actress went to cinema in the movie, and saw Joan of Arch