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Episode 2 – The Hollywood Dream[edit]

1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…

• Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
• Shows Hollywood’s ability to use light in a film
• The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
• Film background was meant to look like Bagdad
• Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
• Used lights to cast shadows on eyelashes
• Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
• Camera on dolly to make the image glide
• Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
• Patterns made with moves
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
• Shadows have light in them
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
• Night time settings
• The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
• Feminine costume
• The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
• Shows fascination with camera
• One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
• Architectural aspects included in film
• Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
• Clever / unique editing
• Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
• Overhead shot to make building high
• Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
• Improvised to make it look like man stops train
• The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
• Jokes are amplified through out the movie
• Stunning visual of bridge collapsing
• Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
• Influence from Buster Keaton
• Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• Into body movement
• City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• Was a huge hit
• Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
• Hands filmed up close for energy
• The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• Metaphor of Adolf Hitler
• Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
• Influenced from Chaplin
• Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
• Chaplin’s hat
• Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
• Model inspired off of Chaplin
• Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
• Saw Chaplin as a master
• Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
• Similar to Chaplin scene
• Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
• Too much like Chaplin
• Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
• Nerd look
• Changed up look (from Chaplin’s)
• Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
• Shows courage
• Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
• One of the most famous scenes in cinema
• I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
• Influenced by Sam Taylor

…And the First of its Rebels

• Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
• Longest non fiction film
• The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
• Used beautiful tracking shots
• Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
• Fiction words on non fiction visuals
• The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
• Interview about war experience
• The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
• Remade 5 times with differences
• The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
• Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
• The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
• Shows actress how to comb hair
• Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
• Money has flooded the world (figuratively)
• Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
• Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
• Shows actress watching movie she was in
• The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
• Attempt at creating realism in film
• The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
• The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
• Exaggerating to force effect / perspective
• Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
• Played with the rebellious idea of realism
• Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
• Realism of grief
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Simplified image
• Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Shadows against white wall
• Shadows have a life of their own
• Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
• Filmed as if it’s in heaven (white screen)
• Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
• Opposite of romantic cinema
• Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
• Film shown is The Passion of Joan of Arc