FRENCH FILM

-Claud Lelouch -not new wave -heist

- George Clouzart-thriller

-Jean luc-jump cut, no establishing shots

Alain Resnais

Martin Scorses -realistic boxing

paul verhoeven

Michael Haneke

Jean Pierre Melville

Matnieu Kasoutiz-french projects-realism

Gillo Pontecorvo-french soldier-realistic

Hitchcock-mise en scene

Melville-Heist-film noir

Andy warhol

Denis Claire-colonial france

Eric Zonka-class

billy wilder -film noir -- crime film-content driven

Luc Bessum-cinema de look

Peter davis-documentary -formal

raoul walsh-fallatio- formal

john hutson

1/24 of a second is how short shot can be

short, 2,3,4 seconds

shot of a young guy getting up, walking to kitchen, making coffee -- go through his whole morning

belongs in the world of the film

soundtrack -- not natural sounds in the film

diageticsound that comes either earlier or later than the accompanying image

elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot -- occurs within a scene rather than between scenes

round, moving mask that contracts to close down to end a scene or open a scene

shots, long shots, that set up a scene to let the spectator know where you are

literary term way films are quoting other films-- doesnt interrupt your understanding -- just a way for the director to prove he's a film maker

- genre of film-describes stylish hollywood crime dramas, emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations -1940s and late 1950s-low key black and white visual style that has roots in german expressionist

- walter is an insurance salesman, phyllis as a provacotive housewife who wishes her husband were dead -story is told in a flashback -try to throw the husband off the back of the train-closer to content

ways film makers get around censorship

the way that objects and people are distributed in the frame -- what happens in the space rather than in time

what, realistic, narrative, just interested in telling you the story

how, minsensen, not interested in story but showing you how film is made

shoot the piano player-

-father of the new wave-american crime films-the samurai and bob the gambler

- bob has a lot of bad luck-casino holds a lot of cash-involved with a woman called anne-bob gets caught in the casino and sues the police for taking his money-heist film

- taking you from one place to another

getting information relative to the chracter or set

switch from one scene to another -- left to right, bottom to top

concept taking from theories of new wave -- holds that a directors film reflects the directors personal creative vision

- good guy gone bad-centered around gangster plot-centered around the private eye

- to bring you into the world of gangsters

Jef lives in apartment with bird -Long opening shot shows him on his bed smoking wit a haiku poem on screen -Lover, Jane -Contract with nightclub owner, seen leaving with Valerie the pianist -Their statements are inconsistent and the officer thinks Costello is the man -He loses the police tail and gets to a meeting point on subway where he is shot instead of getting paid -Returns to nightclub and bonds with piano player, meanwhile the police bug his room which agitates the bird -He notices loose feathers knowing someone was in his apartment -Police try to get Jane to tell them the truth and she says no -goes home and finds himself at gunpoint and offers a new target which is not revealed at this point -Metro chase and goodbye to jane he goes to Reys(his boss) home and kills him and then goes to the nightclub -Makes no attempt to cover himself up -walks over to valerie with a gun and she asks why and he said "I was paid to" -Police shoot him -Then they say he would've killed her but it did not have any bullets

japanese cushion that men and women put their knees on

jap poem

not very polished, using real train, small budget, true camera shots

Claude Leluche

-boarding school run by women-his wife and his mistress-mistress and husband try to kill the wife with her heart condition

- has to do with suspense and action-when we dont know who killed the person, we have the body, a police series-in order to go forward we have to go backwards

NIKITA-- flashy, sleek, type of 1980's film -- single and isolated teenagers that are living on their own

-- all deal with history--dream life -- class, france is not changing -- chocolat -- race, camaroon isnt changing, french colonialism-- cache -- france's inability to deal with the past -- the guy is in denial of his past (france), the adopted kid (algeria) -- he is in denial about the war -- the son of the adopted man goes to the the office and says "you denied my father to the right to education"** at the end, the two sons are getting along as opposed to their fathers -- shows that the next generation may show hope ** Cache is a realistic film -- natural lighting - diagetic shots only- camera has long shots

- bob the gambler (content) * plot driven *lineup- la samurai (form ) *slide transition wipes *big american cars

nikita?

slowing down to take you through specific scenes - the keys, the opening of the safe , the questioning, installing the bug -slowed down action focusing on particular events