An Introduction to Film

Movies Described or Illustrated in This Chapter

American Beauty(1999). Sam Mendes, director.
Atonement(2007). Joe Wright, director.

Black Hawk Down(2001). Ridley Scott, director.

Bonnie and Clyde(1967). Arthur Penn, director.

Citizen Kane(1941). Orson Welles, director.

City of God(2002). Fernando Meirelles and Kátia

Lund, directors.

Cloverfield(2008). Matt Reeves, director.

Donnie Darko(2001). Richard Kelly, director.

Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory(1895). Louis

Lumière.

L’Enfant(2005). Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc

Dardenne, directors.

Gladiator(2000). Ridley Scott, director.

The Godfather(1972). Francis Ford Coppola, director.

The Gold Rush(1925). Charles Chaplin, director.

Gone with the Wind(1939). Victor Fleming, director.

The Grapes of Wrath(1940). John Ford, director.

Heist(2001). David Mamet, director.

Henry V(1989). Kenneth Branagh, director.

Irréversible(2002). Gaspar Noé, director.

Jane Eyre(2011). Cary Fukunaga, director.

Juno(2007). Jason Reitman, director.

Kick-Ass(2010). Matthew Vaughn, director.

The Killer(1989). John Woo, director.

Let The Right One In (2008). Tomas Alfredson,

director.

The Matrix (1999). Andy Wachowski and Lana

Wachowski, directors.

Memento(2000). Christopher Nolan, director.

The New World(2005). Terrence Malick, director.

Psycho(1960). Alfred Hitchcock, director.

The Searchers(1956). John Ford, director.

The Silence of the Lambs(1991). Jonathan Demme,

director.

The Third Man(1949). Carol Reed, director.

A Trip to the Moon(1902). Georges Méliès, director.

True Grit (2010). Joel Coen and Ethan Coen,

directors.

Way down East(1920). D. W. Griffith, director.

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DVDThe tutorial for this chapter reviews the

importance of form and content and features

additional examples and illustrations.

StudyspaceGo to wwnorton.com/movies

to test and expand your knowledge of the key con-

cepts in this chapter.