(He is the G.W. Griffith of France)

-1919 J'accuse

-1922 La Rose

-1934 Kean, the madness of Genius

-1950 Rashomon

-1954 Seven Samuri

-1960 The Magnificent Seven

-1977 Star Wars

(He was influenced by Hidden Fortress to create Star Wars)

-Grand Illusion

-The Rules of the Game

John Sturges

-Saw film as a way to move people and manipulate them

-Used film as propoganda

-filmless film workshop (took films apart)

-Experiments (Ivan Mozhukhin)

-Creative Geography

-Artifical Landscape

"creative anatomy"

-worked closely with bff Sal. Dali

-16-minute short film Un chien andalou with Dalí. It featured a series of startling and horrifying images of Freudian nature (such as what appears to be the slow slicing of a woman's eyeball with a razor blade) was enthusiastically received by French surrealists of the time

-He and Dali had a falling out

Man Ray

- American Artist who moved to France

-significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements

-Frenchman

-The Crazy Ray

-Entr'acte

Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire includes film, sculpture, and photography in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of mediums.

-extremely imaginative

-created work with Bunuel about nothing

-Began career as engineer for Red Army

-Set designer for Vsevolod Meyerhold

-First film Dnevnik Glumova

-1924 Stachka (strike)

-1925 Bronenosets Potemkin

-Odessa Steps (Terry Gilliam and Brian DePalma)

-was sent to US to learn about sound

-Accused of 'formalism' and was sentenced to teach

-1938 Alekxander Nvesky

-Ivan Grozny I,II,III

died of heartattack in Moscow

- spagehtti western A fistfull of dollars

-based in yojimbo

-strong visual style

-consistent narrative devices and themes

-"Auteur film theory"

-American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney.

-Disney's closest friend until they had a falling out and he started his own company

-created Mickey Mouse

-student of Lev Kuleshov

-1925 Chess Fever

-comedy experiment to illustrate his conviction: "The foundation of film art is editing"

-1926 Mechanics of the brain (documentary on Pavlov)

-1926 Mother (Eisenstein focused on the pwr of the masses as Pudovkin focused on the courage of the individual)

-1927 End of St. Petersburg

-1928 Storm over Asia (Heir to Genghis Khan)

-Steamboat Willie

-American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

"The most japanese of japanese film directors"

-Mainstream director "Tofu Salesman"

-Japanese genre films

(college comedies, wistful office workers-ganster films)

-1932 Umarete wa Mita Keredo (I was born but...)

-1936 Specializes in the shomen-geki (home-drama) genre

-Made propaganda films in singapore during the war

-Fantasia "These guys look like toruble"...

 -1953 Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story)

-1959 Ohayo (Good Morning)

-unreasonable choice; he broke camera rules (ppl would jump around the screen)

A fist full of Dollars

-Directed by Sergio Leone

-Based on yojimbo

Akira

-greatest animated film ever!

-co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. The film is set in a neon-lit futuristic Tokyo in 2019

- collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa

scene: wheat farm, ('Crows': an art student encounters 'Vincent Van Gogh' and enters the world of his paintings)

Director: Sergei M. Esenstein

-Director: Sergei Eisenstein

dramatised version of the Battleship Potemkin uprising that occurred in 1905 when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers of the Tsarist regime.

Entr'acte

Director: Rene Clair

-Dada movie

-Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

-First Film

(Dnevnik Glumova)

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

(Ohayo)

-looks at a very Westernized subarban Japan in the late 50's.

-filmed at a dogs level

Director: Akira Kurosawa

-inspired the 1977 Star Wars (George Lucas)

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

(Ivan the terrible)

scene: a king and dancing movie

Director: Abel Gance

-He used it to accuse everyone who had a part in the war

Director: Abel Gance

-Father and son fall in love with the beautiful Norma (rescued from a train crash as a baby and raised as his daughter), with tragic results.

 -Originally ran 9 hours, this epic tragedy known for its foreshadows Gance's later 'Napoleon' in its use of innovative cinematic devices, particularly rapid cutting.

Director:  Walter Hill (1996)

-With Bruce Willis

- Based on Yojimbo

scene: dead horse in the town