An Introduction to Film

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The Insider(1999). Michael Mann, director.
Lawrence of Arabia(1962). David Lean, director.
Memento(2000). Christopher Nolan, director.
My Darling Clementine(1946). John Ford, director.
Napoléon(1927). Abel Gance, director.
The Night of the Hunter(1955). Charles Laughton,
director.
Now, Voyager(1942). Irving Rapper, director.
Once upon a Time in the West(1968; director’s-cut
DVD version released 2003). Sergio Leone,
director.
Out of Sight(1998). Steven Soderbergh, director.
The Play House(1921). Buster Keaton, director.
Psycho(1960). Alfred Hitchcock, director.
Rear Window(1954). Alfred Hitchcock, director.
Requiem for a Dream (2000). Darren Aronofsky,
director.
The Rules of Attraction (2002). Roger Avary,
director.
Run Lola Run(1998). Tom Tykwer, director.
Rushmore(1998). Wes Anderson, director.
The Searchers(1956). John Ford, director.
Shine a Light(2008). Martin Scorsese, director.
Stagecoach (1941). John Ford, director.
Taxi Driver(1976). Martin Scorsese, director.
Team America: World Police(2004). Trey Parker,
director.
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?(1969). Sydney Pol-
lack, director.
The Thin Red Line(1998). Terence Malick, director.
The Thomas Crown Affair(1968). Norman Jewison,
director.
Timecode(2000). Mike Figgis, director.
The Tin Drum(1979). Volker Schlöndorff, director.
To Die For(1995). Gus Van Sant, director.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Stanley Kubrick,
director.
Y tu mamá también(2001). Alfonso Cuarón, director.


  1. How does the match cut differ from and com-
    pare to parallel editing?

  2. What is a jump cut? What is the typical effect
    of a jump cut on a viewer?

  3. Given the magnitude of the editor’s overall
    responsibility during the postproduction stage
    of filmmaking, why is it considered desirable,
    if not essential, that the editor also collaborate
    during the preproduction phase?


Movies Described or Illustrated in This Chapter


Adaptation(2002). Spike Jonze, director.
Apocalypse Now (1979). Francis Ford Coppola,
director.
Battleship Potemkin(1925). Sergei Eisenstein, director.
The Birth of a Nation(1915). D. W. Griffith, director.
Breathless(1960). Jean-Luc Godard, director.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(1920). Robert Wiene,
director.
A Canterbury Tale (1944). Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger, directors.
Casablanca(1942). Michael Curtiz, director.
City of God(2002). Fernando Meirelles and Kátia
Lund, directors.
Conversations with Other Women (2005). Hans
Canosa, director.
Cries and Whispers(1972). Ingmar Bergman, director.
Don’t Look Now(1973). Nicolas Roeg, director.
Drugstore Cowboy(1989). Gus Van Sant, director.
Erin Brockovich(2000). Steven Soderbergh, director.
The Five Obstructions(2003). Jørgen Leth and Lars
von Trier, directors.
The 400 Blows(1959). François Truffaut, director.
The General(1998). John Boorman, director.
Goodfellas(1990). Martin Scorsese, director.
Heaven(2002). Tom Tykwer, director.


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