An Introduction to Film

company of actors (Nashville, 1975; Short Cuts, 1993; Gosford Park, 2001); Mike Leigh and various actors (Life Is Sweet, 1991; N ...

The Bicycle Thievesis such a powerful film because of the director’s spare style, humanist treatment of the story, and his willi ...

gave direction “with his entire personality—his facial expressions, bending his eye. He didn’t ver- balize. He wasn’t articulate ...

The origins of the New Wave were influenced by several movements. The first was the French cinema itself, including the 1930s ci ...

moment; they must often direct their gaze and position their body and/or face in unnatural-feeling poses to allow for lighting, ...

tor or the entire collaborative team, including the director—that makes a movie? Truffaut idolized directors who made highly per ...

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he uses them. Breathless, a movie that asserts Godard’s personality and ideology, virtually defines what is meant by an auteur f ...

and then letting this preparation pay off in moments of great theatrical vitality. Look closely, for example, at the performance ...

sequence—made up of an establishing shot, long shot, medium shot, and close-up, generally in that order—to set the time and plac ...

together continuously in a single shot. Depending on the story and plot situation, this technique can intensify the emotional im ...

England and the Free Cinema Movement The British Free Cinema movement, which devel- oped between 1956 and 1959, like the work of ...

fabric.”^45 Although we do not yet know who Amy is, what she does, or why she’s going to Morocco, we certainly understand La Bes ...

based on the Dogme 95 manifesto of ten rules (known as “The Vow of Chastity”), with which par- ticipating directors were require ...

some recognized criteria, let’s discuss how we can bring our own experiences to the task. An actor’s performance on the screen i ...

the 1980s. Its founders, a group of young writers and filmmakers, recognized that any attempt to revive the German cinema must d ...

warlord (based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth) in Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood(1957); Marlon Brando as a Mafia don in Francis Ford ...

Hollywood filmmaking, especially the work of John Ford. However, aside from familiar cinematic tech- nique, his films are thorou ...

movie’s narrative. Such appropriateness in acting is also called transparency, meaning that the character is so clearly recogniz ...

men, male-female relations, and the idea that a man can be saved by a woman’s love. These themes characterize his greatest postw ...