The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest – Around the World.
- The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Yellow Earth (1985) dir. Chen Kaige
The greatest villages film in china in the 80s
- Raise the Red Lantern (1991) dir. Zhang Yimou
- House of Flying Daggers (2004) dir. Zhang Yimou
- Repentance (1984) dir. Tengiz Abuladze
- Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
Filmed from far away in daylight
- Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov
The boy seems to get smaller due to the wide-angle lens
The acting, sound designed, wide-angle camera work made it the best war film
- Long Goodbyes (1971) dir. Kira Muratova
No sound of the train itself
Filmed in long lens
About psychological bondage
- A Short Film About Killing (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
The killing scene takes about 3 minutes, in real-time
The film changed the death sentence in Poland
- Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Wend Kuuni (1983) dir. Gaston Kaboré
The film was a landmark in Afireca
Put a flashback into another flashback
- Yeelen (1987) dir. Souleymane Cissé
Scifi roar on the soundtrack
- Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) (music video) dir. Russell Mulcahy
Fast editing, stepped cuts
- Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne
The editing is fast, the angles are numerous and sexy
- Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott
Many of the shots last just 2 to 3 seconds
- Blue Velvet (1986) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. David Lynch
- The Elephant Man (1980) dir. David Lynch
- Do the Right Thing (1989) dir. Spike Lee
- The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed (introduced in Episode 5)
Follows one of the characters
- Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) dir. John Sayles
The camera focuses on a group of friends conversation
- Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson
Like a car chase but on rollerskates
- Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax
- An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced in Episode 5)
Modern dance, a splash of color
- Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodóvar
One of the scenes were so provocative
The style is cheap, not classy
- A Hard Day’s Night (1964) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Richard Lester
- The Quince Tree Sun (1992) dir. Víctor Erice
Uses no camera moves, natural light
- My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears
The film was ” A knee to the balls to the right-winged government”
- My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas
“A simple scene, but one of the great moments of reconciliation in cinema
- Gregory’s Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth
Most of the film, the camera is horizontal until the camera tillets, so it’s like a poem
- Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies
There is the sound of people using the staircase, but there is nobody there
- Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)
- Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas
Usees a crane shot, it glades into a nice world even though someone killed themself
- A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway
Likes the frame to be symmetrical
- The Last of England (1988) dir. Derek Jarman
- Videodrome (1983) dir. David Cronenberg
- Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg
- Neighbours (1952) dir. Norman McLaren
- Jesus of Montreal (1989) dir. Denys Arcand
Speaks truth to power