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First Motion picture in modern history
It was an Experement for the Lumière brothers
The train is coming towards us from a distance as the train stops the line dissolves |
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| THE GOLD RUSH (CHARLES CHAPLIN) (He played the Lone Prospector) |
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LONE PROSPECTOR ventures into Alaska looking for golf
He gets mixed up some burly characters and falls in love with Georgia
He tries to win her hear with his singular charm |
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| POTEMKIN (Sergei Eisentein’s) best known for editing and for specifically thematic montage |
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Based on historical events the story tell of a riot at Battleship Potemkin
What started as a strike with the crew being given rotten meat for dinner ended up turning into a riot.
The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignit the revolution in their homeport odessa waving the flag as the go around the whole ship |
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| THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI (Robert Wiene’s) Horro Movie - film exemplifies expressionism |
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Dr. Caligari
Francis a young man recalls the memory of the horrible experience between him and his fiancé
Francis and his friend Alan visit the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and exhibit where the mysterious doctor somnambulist Cesare, and awaken him from the moments from his death like sleep.
When Alan asks Cesare of about his future Cesare answers that he will die before dawn
The next morning Alan is found dead
The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane but in her bed but because of how beautiful she is he decides to, instead, abducts her. |
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| THE JAZZ SINGER (Alan Cosland) |
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Cantor Rabinowitz is concerened because hsi son Jackie show such little interest in carrying on the family tradition
Jackie was more interested in Jazz and music
Jackie left home for good because of this horrible argument
Jackie gets his big shot in his career thru Mary Dale
Jackie finds that in order to balance his career he will be forced to make some difficult choices |
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| THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir) |
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Aviator Andre Jurieux has completed a record setting flight all he can say is how misreble he is because the women he loves did not come
Andre seeks help from an old friend Octave to get an invite to a hunting party where Christine was there
Even some of the servents are tangled up in relationships |
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| CITIZEN KANE (Orsen Wells) |
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Newpaper reporter
Rosebud
It was a little sled he used to have as a boy
This movie was a symbol of what money did to him.
This movie had different lighting, deep focus photography, sets with ceilings, low angle shots and sound |
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| HIS Friday GIRL (Howard Hawks’) |
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Hildy has divorced Walter and visits his office to tell him that she is engaged to another man and that she is going to get married the day after
Walter cant let this happen and frames the other man Baldwin getting him into trouble all the time
While Walter tries to steer Hildy back to her old job as his employee |
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| THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston’s) |
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Mr. Spade takes on a case that involves him with 3 eccentric criminals
This is all for a statue called the Maletese Falcon |
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| BICYCLE THEIF (Vittoiro DeSica’s) |
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Poor young man Antonio postwar in Rome finally finds work putting up Hayworth posters around town only to have his bicycle stolen the first day on the job.
Antonio and his son chase after the thief who stole his bike
Antonio tracks the thief into a kitchen of brothel
Stooky and grainy technique help to make the film look older |
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Orpheus is a poet and becomes obsessed with Death (Princess)
The Call in love Orphees’s wife Euydice, is killed by the Princess
Orpheus goes after her in the underworld
Although Orpheus is entangled, The Princess sends Orphee back out of the underworld to carry on his life with Eurydice. |
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| THE SEVENTH SEAL (Ingmar Bergman) |
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A knight and his squire and home from Crusades
Black death is sweeping their country as they approach home
Black death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time
The Knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life
They play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them they try in different ways to upheaval the plague.
John and Mia represent Joseph, Mary, and there son Jesus |
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| RASHOMON (Akira Kurosawa) |
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A priest, woodcutter and another man are taking refuge form the rainstorm.
The priest and woodcutter are discovering of the murder of samurai who’s body the woodcutter discovered in the grove
Takashi, Dead Mans Spirit, The Bandit Tajomaru, Wife |
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| NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Alfred Hitchcock) |
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Roger Thornhill finds himself trust in the world of spies
When he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan
Eve who Kaplan is falling for takes him and uses him
Leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore |
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| CHINATOWN (Roman Polanski) |
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Mr. Gittes is a private investigator who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases
Mrs. Mulray hires Gittes for the job to see who killed her husband
Someone who posed as Mrs. Mulray was a fake and got killed for being to thought to be her
Had alot of action alot of romance sex |
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| TAXI DRIVER (Martin Scorsese) |
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Mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nightime taxi driver in NYC where the decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process
Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War Veteran who suffers insomnia he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night and watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day
He is a loner who has a strong opinion on what is right and wrong with mankind.
After the insident with Iris he believes he has to make it up to the world. |
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