The Story of Film – Episode 8 – New Directors, New Form

1965-1969: New Waves – Sweep Around the World.

• Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda
  • Expression about WW2 and the communists
  • Full of symbols
• Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Roman Polanski
  • cuts with the music
• Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier
  • camera tracks through a claustrophobic castle
• Knife in the Water (1962) dir. Roman Polanski
  • claustrophobic
  • deep focus photography
  • Love triangle
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
• The Hand (1965) dir. Jiří Trnka
  • hauntingly symbolic
• The Fireman’s Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
  • filmed without gloss
• Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová
  • trippy scenes
• The Red and the White (1968) dir. Miklós Jancsó
  • 3 minute uncut scene with camera motion
  • form echoing content
  • close up at the end of the movie, as if humanity has finally crashed through
• Une journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker
• Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • crisp black and white photography
  • crane shot with a wide angle lense
• The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • physical and metaphysical combine
• Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov
  • pov shot of a falling tree
  • camera seldom at eyelevel
• Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
• Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima
• In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima
  • frames himself in a window with out of focus edges
• Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii
• The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shōhei Imamura
  • foreground out of focus and background in focus to create a window
• Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
• Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shōhei Imamura
• Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
  • heightened emotions
• The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
• Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
• Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul
  • slow pacing
• Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
• I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
  • levitating camera in a long uncut shot
• The House Is Black (1963) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
  • shot in black and white
• Black Girl (1966) dir. Ousmane Sembène
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz
• Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach
  • naturalistic light and a variety of lenses
• A Hard Day’s Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
  • starts conventionally but then speeds up
• Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew 
  • a documentary where scenes weren’t staged
• Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes
• Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  • shot in black and white in “TV” style
  • 70 camera angles for 45 seconds
• 66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jørgen Leth
• Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols
• Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler
  • rapid cuts
• Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper
• Making “The Shining” (1980) dir. Vivian Kubrick
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Stanley Kubrick
• Der Sieger (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann