Episode 15 – Cinema Today and the Future
2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle – and the Future of Movies.
- Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach
A studio set and painted backdrops
- Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg
A frame densly packed
Soft top lighting
- Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumière
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore
Was one of the biggest box office hits in the history of documentary
- The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass
It’s trying to be like a documentary
- Être et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert
Mr.Lopez was just standing yet he was one of the most vivid human beings on screen in 2002
- Zidane – A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno
Was one of the most innovative films of it’s time
Used extra-long lens
Shalow focus
- Way Down East (1920) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
Softly lit
- Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan
One of the most innovative fiction films of the 21st century
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu
The death of Mr.Lazareuc was one of the most moving works of film realism of the new century
- The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel
There is no fast editing in a car crash scene
Static camera, shallow focus
One of the best ever made in South America
- Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas
- Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong
- Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho
A conversation simply shot
- Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook
The camera is on a dolly, not handheld and close up
- Le Voyage dans la lune (1902) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Georges Méliès (Although Mark Cousins and the title on the screen indicate that the scene being shown is from La lune à un mètre, the scene is actually from Le Voyage dans la lune.
One of the first science fiction films
- Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch
Handheld
- Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky
A peranoid dream in a fearful century
- Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson
The color in a scene is green
- Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne
Square on symmetrical
- Indiscreet (1958) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Stanley Donen
Used split-screen to get around censorship by making it look like the lovers are in the same bed together
- Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary
Go from inside the moment to outside the moment and become a observer
- Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron
- Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas
21st century manged to insert the mystery of human feeling into a digital and electronic universe
- Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Natural light and long takes
The backdrop is so still that it looks almost painted
The film seems to be reincarnated
- Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov
Shot some of the scenes as from a painting
The scene was stretched and tilled
Constered one of the best films of its time said by critics
- Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov
The most invented ever made
The greatest gorilla ever made
Sokurov saw this film a single last breath of this civilization
Filmed the eniter movie in one take
- In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2003) dir. Knut Elstermann
The handheld camera shows the relief
Epilogue the Year 2046
- Inception (2010) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Christopher Nolan
Innovative Scifi film
The camera flotes
The camera is handheld
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry
Shot like a Tv crime program