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Story of Film: An Odyssey

Episode 1 - Birth of the Cinema


Introduction

Saving Private Ryan (1998) dir. Steven Spielberg

Three Colors: Blue (1993) dir. Krzysztof Kielowski

Casablanca (1942) dir. Michael Curtiz

The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) dir. Yasujir Ozu

Odd Man Out (1947) dir. Carol Reed

Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese

The French Connection (1971) dir. William Friedkin

1895-1918: The World Discovers A New Art form or Birth of the


Cinema

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) dir. Louis Le Prince

The Kiss (1896 film) (aka May Irwin Kiss) (1896) dir. William Heise

Workers Leaving the Lumire Factory (1895) dir. Louis Lumire

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) dir. Louis Lumire

Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894-1896 ?) dir. William Kennedy


Dickson or William Heise

Sandow (1894) dir. William Kennedy Dickson

What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901)


dir. George S. Fleming and Edwin S. Porter

Cendrillon (1899) dir. Georges Mlis

Le voyage dans la lune (1902) dir. Georges Mlis

La lune un mtre (1898) dir. Georges Mlis

The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899) dir. George Albert Smith

Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick

The Sick Kitten (1903) dir. George Albert Smith

October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei
Eisenstein

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone

The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch J. Rector

1903-1918: The Thrill Becomes Story or The Hollywood Dream

Life of an American Fireman (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter

Sherlock, Jr. (1924) dir. Buster Keaton

The Horse that Bolted (1907) dir. Charles Path

The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (aka The Assassination of


the Duc de Guise) (1908) dir. Charles le Bargy and Andr
Calmettes

Vivre sa vie (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Those Awful Hats (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith

The Mended Lute (1909) dir. D. W. Griffith

The Abyss (1910) dir. Urban Gad

Stage Struck (1925) dir. Allan Dwan

The Mysterious X (1914) dir. Benjamin Christensen

Hxan (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen

Ingeborg Holm (1913) dir. Victor Sjstrm

The Phantom Carriage (1921) dir. Victor Sjstrm

Shanghai Express (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg

The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) dir. Charles Tait

The Squaw Man (1914) dir. Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) dir. Irvin
Kershner

Falling Leaves (1912) dir. Alice Guy-Blach

Suspense (1913) dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber

The Wind (1928) dir. Victor Sjstrm

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908) dir. D. W. Griffith

The House with Closed Shutters (1910) dir. D. W. Griffith

Way Down East (1920) dir. D. W. Griffith

Orphans of the Storm (1921) dir. D. W. Griffith

The Birth of a Nation (1915) dir. D. W. Griffith

Rebirth of a Nation (2007) dir. DJ Spooky

Cabiria (1914) dir. Giovanni Pastrone

Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith

Souls on the Road (aka Rojo No Reikan) (1921) dir. Minoru Murata

Episode 2 - The Hollywood Dream


1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film...

Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles

The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh

Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage

Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy

Singin' in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston

The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg

The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton

One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton

Sherlock, Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton

Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline

Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton

The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton

Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman

Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin

City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin

The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin

Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg

The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati

Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno

Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor

Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder

Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

Luke's Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach

Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach

Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

I Flunked, But... (1930) dir. Yasujir Ozu

...And the First of its Rebels

Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty

The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad

Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker

Punk's Not Dead (2007) dir. Susan Dynner

The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five


Obstructions) dir. Jrgen Leth

The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jrgen Leth

Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim

The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane

Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim

Stroheim in Vienna (1948)

Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich


von Stroheim

The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor

The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder

The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles

Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov

Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer

Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier

Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Episode 3 - The Golden Age of World Cinema


1918-1932: The Great Rebel Filmmakers Around the World

The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Raoul


Walsh

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl


Theodor Dreyer

Robert and Bertram (1915) dir. Max Mack

The Oyster Princess (1919) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

The Mountain Cat (1921) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

The Marriage Circle (1924) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

La Roue (1923) dir. Abel Gance

Napolon (1927) dir. Abel Gance

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene

The Tell-Tale Heart (1928) dir. Charles Klein

The Lodger (1927) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

A Page of Madness (1926) dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa

Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang

The Crowd (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. King Vidor

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) dir. F. W. Murnau

Opus 1 (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann

Entr'acte (1924) dir. Ren Clair

Rien que les heures (1926) dir. Alberto Cavalcanti

Spellbound (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Un Chien Andalou (1929) dir. Luis Buuel

Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch

L'Age d'Or (1930) dir. Luis Buuel

Kino-Pravda n. 19 (1924) dir. Dziga Vertov

Glumov's Diary (1923) dir. Sergei Eisenstein

Battleship Potemkin (1925) dir. Sergei Eisenstein

The Untouchables (1987) dir. Brian De Palma

Arsenal (1928) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko

Earth (1930) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko

I Was Born, But... (1932) dir. Yasujir Ozu

Tokyo Story (1953) dir. Yasujir Ozu

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)


dir. Chantal Akerman

The Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) (introduced


in Episode 1) dir. Yasujir Ozu

Osaka Elegy (1936) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi

Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles

Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi

Mildred Pierce (1945) dir. Michael Curtiz

Romance of the West Chamber (1927) dir. Hou Yao and Minwei Li

Scenes of City Life (1935) dir. Yuan Muzhi

The Goddess (1934) dir. Wu Yonggang

Centre Stage (1992) dir. Stanley Kwan

New Women (1935) dir. Cai Chusheng

Episode 4 - The Arrival of Sound[edit]


The 1930s: The Great American Movie Genres...

Her Dilemma (aka Confessions of a Co-Ed) (1931) dir. Dudley


Murphy

Love Me Tonight (1930) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) dir. Carl
Boese and Paul Wegener

Frankenstein (1931) dir. James Whale

Eyes Without a Face (1960) dir. Georges Franju

Audition (1999) dir. Takashi Miike

The Public Enemy (1931) dir. William A. Wellman

Scarface (1932) dir. Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson

Scarface (1983) dir. Brian De Palma

Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) dir. Sergio Leone

The Iron Horse (1924) dir. John Ford

My Darling Clementine (1946) dir. John Ford

Twentieth Century (1934) dir. Howard Hawks

Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973) dir. Richard
Schickel

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Mervyn


LeRoy

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) dir. Winsor McCay

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) dir. Lotte Reiniger

Plane Crazy (1928) dir. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, William
Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, and Ben
Sharpsteen

One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) dir. Clyde


Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wolfgang Reitherman

...And the Brilliance of European Film

The Blood of a Poet (1931) dir. Jean Cocteau

Inception (2010) dir. Christopher Nolan

Zro de conduite (1933) dir. Jean Vigo

If.... (1968) dir. Lindsay Anderson

L'Atalante (1934) dir. Jean Vigo

Le Quai des brumes (1938) dir. Marcel Carn

Les Enfants du Paradis (1945) dir. Marcel Carn

La Rgle du jeu (1939) (aka The Rules of the Game) dir. Jean
Renoir

La Grande Illusion (1937) dir. Jean Renoir

Limite (1931) dir. Mrio Peixoto

The Adventures of a Good Citizen (1937) dir. Stefan Themerson

Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) dir. Roman Polanski

Das Blaue Licht (1932) dir. Leni Riefenstahl

Triumph of the Will (1935) dir. Leni Riefenstahl

Behind the Scenes of the Filming of the Olympic Games (1937)


dir. Leni Riefenstahl

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty (1938) dir. Leni Riefenstahl

Tiefland (1954) dir. Leni Riefenstahl

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993) dir. Ray


Mller

Vertigo (1958) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Saboteur (1942) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Sabotage (1936) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

The 39 Steps (1935) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Marnie (1964) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Ninotchka (1939) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

The Wizard of Oz (1939) dir. Victor Fleming

Gone with the Wind (1939) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Victor


Fleming

Episode 5 - Post-War Cinema[edit]


1939-1952: The Devastation of War...And a New Movie Language

Rome, Open City (1945) dir. Roberto Rossellini

Stagecoach (1939) dir. John Ford

Directed by John Ford (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich

Osaka Elegy (1936) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi

Flesh and the Devil (1926) dir. Clarence Brown

Follow the Boys (1944) dir. A. Edward Sutherland

Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles

Me and Orson Welles (2008) dir. Richard Linklater

Chimes at Midnight (1965) dir. Orson Welles

Cabiria (1914) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Giovanni Pastrone

Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith

The General (1926) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Clyde


Bruckman and Buster Keaton

The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John


Huston

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) dir. William Wyler

Code Unknown (2000) dir. Michael Haneke

Stntang (1994) dir. Bla Tarr

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) dir. Jean Negulesco

Un Homme et une Femme (1966) dir. Claude Lelouch

Heat (1995) dir. Michael Mann

Raging Bull (1980) dir. Martin Scorsese

Bicycle Thieves (1948) dir. Vittorio De Sica

Pin Up Girl (1944) dir. H. Bruce Humberstone

Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder

Portrait of a 66% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder (1982) dir. Annie Tresgot

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) dir. Fritz Lang

The Big Sleep (1946) dir. Howard Hawks

Rio Bravo (1959) dir. Howard Hawks

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (introduced


in Episode 1) dir. Irvin Kershner

Out of the Past (1947) dir. Jacques Tourneur

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino

Little Caesar (1931) dir. Mervyn LeRoy

Le Quai des brumes (1938) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Marcel


Carn

La Chienne (1931) dir. Jean Renoir

Scarlet Street (1945) dir. Fritz Lang

American Cinema: Film Noir (1995) dir. Alain Klarer

Gun Crazy (1950) dir. Joseph H. Lewis

Bonnie and Clyde (1967) dir. Arthur Penn

L.A. Confidential (1997) dir. Curtis Hanson

Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott

The Dark Knight (2008) dir. Christopher Nolan

Siva (1989) dir. Ram Gopal Varma

Titanic (1997) dir. James Cameron

71st Academy Awards (1999) dir. Louis J. Horvitz

An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli

The Red Shoes (1948) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Singin' in the Rain (1952) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Gene


Kelly and Stanley Donen

Flying Down to Rio (1933) dir. Thornton Freeland

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Mervyn


LeRoy

Indiscreet (1958) dir. Stanley Donen

Two for the Road (1967) dir. Stanley Donen

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) dir. Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger

Post Haste (1933) dir. Humphrey Jennings

Listen to Britain (1942) dir. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart


McAllister

The Third Man (1949) dir. Carol Reed

The True Glory (1945) dir. Carol Reed and Garson Kanin

Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese

Episode 6 - Sex & Melodrama[edit]


1953-1957: The Swollen Story: World Cinema Bursting at the
Seams

Rebel Without a Cause (1955) dir. Nicholas Ray

Cairo Station (1958) dir. Youssef Chahine

Paper Flowers (1959) dir. Guru Dutt

Raja Harishchandra (1913) dir. Dadasaheb Phalke

Sant Tukaram (1936) dir. Vishnupant Govind Damle and Sheikh


Fattelal

Pather Panchali (1955) dir. Satyajit Ray

Devi (1960) dir. Satyajit Ray

Mother India (1957) dir. Mehboob Khan

Two Stage Sisters (1964) dir. Xie Jin

Ikiru (1952) dir. Akira Kurosawa

Stray Dog (1949) dir. Akira Kurosawa

Seven Samurai (1954) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Akira


Kurosawa

Throne of Blood (1957) dir. Akira Kurosawa

The Godfather (1972) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

The Magnificent Seven (1960) dir. John Sturges

Limite (1931) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Mrio Peixoto

Rio 40 Graus (aka Rio 100 Degrees F.) (1955) dir. Nelson Pereira
dos Santos

Doa Brbara (1943) dir. Fernando de Fuentes and Miguel M.


Delgado

The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah

La perla (1947) dir. Emilio Fernndez

Los Olvidados (1950) dir. Luis Buuel

All That Heaven Allows (1955) dir. Douglas Sirk

I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975) dir. David Helpern

Johnny Guitar (1954) dir. Nicholas Ray

Fireworks (1947) dir. Kenneth Anger

Scorpio Rising (1964) dir. Kenneth Anger

Marty (television show) (1953) dir. Delbert Mann

Marty (1955) dir. Delbert Mann

On the Waterfront (1954) dir. Elia Kazan

Red River (1948) dir. Howard Hawks and Arthur Rosson

Touch of Evil (1958) dir. Orson Welles

The Searchers (1956) dir. John Ford

Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Rio Bravo (1959) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Howard Hawks

Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) dir. David Lean

O Dreamland (1953) dir. Lindsay Anderson

Battleship Potemkin (1925) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Sergei


Eisenstein

...And God Created Woman (1956) dir. Roger Vadim

Episode 7 - European New Wave[edit]


1957-1964: The Shock of the New - Modern Filmmaking in
Western Europe.

Workers Leaving the Lumire Factory (1895) (introduced


in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumire

Summer with Monika (1953) dir. Ingmar Bergman

The Seventh Seal (1957) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Winter Light (1963) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Pickpocket (1959) dir. Robert Bresson

Au hasard Balthazar (1966) dir. Robert Bresson

Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese

Ratcatcher (1999) dir. Lynne Ramsay

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) (introduced in Episode 2)


dir. Jacques Tati

Mon Oncle (1956) dir. Jacques Tati

Fellini's Casanova (1976) dir. Federico Fellini

Nights of Cabiria (1957) dir. Federico Fellini

8 (1963) dir. Federico Fellini

Stardust Memories (1980) dir. Woody Allen

Clo from 5 to 7 (1962) dir. Agns Varda

Last Year at Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais

The 400 Blows (1959) dir. Franois Truffaut

bout de souffle (1959) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Life of an American Fireman (1903) (introduced in Episode 1)


dir. Edwin S. Porter

Arsenal (1929) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Alexander Dovzhenko

Une femme marie (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

American Gigolo (1980) dir. Paul Schrader

Accattone (1961) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Carl


Theodor Dreyer

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) dir. Sergio Leone

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (introduced in Episode 1)


dir. Sergio Leone

Johnny Guitar (1954) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Nicholas Ray

Senso (1954) dir. Luchino Visconti

Rocco and His Brothers (1960) dir. Luchino Visconti

L'eclisse (1962) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theodoros Angelopoulos

The Wheelchair (1960) dir. Marco Ferreri

What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) dir. Pedro Almodvar

Viridiana (1961) dir. Luis Buuel

I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) dir. Vilgot Sjman

La Maman et la Putain (1973) dir. Jean Eustache

Episode 8 - New Directors, New Form[edit]


1965-1969: New Waves - Sweep Around the World.

Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda

Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958) (introduced in Episode 4)


dir. Roman Polanski

Hamlet (1948) dir. Laurence Olivier

Knife in the Water (1962) dir. Roman Polanski

The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski

The Hand (1965) dir. Ji Trnka

The Fireman's Ball (1967) dir. Milo Forman

Daisies (1966) dir. Vra Chytilov

The Red and the White (1968) dir. Mikls Jancs

Une journe d'Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker

Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov

Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov Islands (1988) dir. Levon


Grigoryan

Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima

In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima

Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii

The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shhei Imamura

Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles

Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shhei


Imamura

Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak

The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak

Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak

Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul

Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha

I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

The House Is Black (1963) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Forugh


Farrokhzad

Black Girl (1966) dir. Ousmane Sembne

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz

Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach

A Hard Day's Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester

Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew

Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes

Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jrgen Leth

Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols

Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler

Easy Rider (1969) dir. Dennis Hopper

Making "The Shining" (1980) dir. Vivian Kubrick

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (introduced in Episode 1)


dir. Stanley Kubrick

Der Sieger (1922) dir. Walter Ruttmann

Episode 9 - American Cinema of the 70s[edit]


1967-1979: New American Cinema.

Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey

Artists and Models (1955) dir. Frank Tashlin

Catch 22 (1970) dir. Mike Nichols

Mash (1970) dir. Robert Altman

The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols

The Fireman's Ball (1967) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Milo


Forman

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) dir. Milo Forman

The Last Movie (1971) dir. Dennis Hopper

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) dir. Robert Altman

The Conversation (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese

Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese

Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji


Mizoguchi

Raging Bull (1980) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Martin Scorsese

Italianamerican (1974) dir. Martin Scorsese

American Gigolo (1980) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Paul


Schrader

Light Sleeper (1992) dir. Paul Schrader

Pickpocket (1959) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Robert Bresson

The Walker (2007) dir. Paul Schrader

The Birth of a Nation (1915) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W.


Griffith

Killer of Sheep (1978) dir. Charles Burnett

The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

Annie Hall (1977) dir. Woody Allen

City Lights (1931) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Charlie Chaplin

Manhattan (1979) dir. Woody Allen

The Last Picture Show (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich

The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) dir. Sam Peckinpah

Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick

Days of Heaven (1978) dir. Terrence Malick

The Mirror (1975) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Cabaret (1972) dir. Bob Fosse

The Godfather (1972) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Francis Ford


Coppola

Chinatown (1974) dir. Roman Polanski

The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John


Huston

Jules et Jim (1962) dir. Franois Truffaut

Episode 10 - Movies to Change the World[edit]


1969-1979: Radical Directors in the 70s - Make State of the
Nation Movies.

Fox and His Friends (1975) (aka Faustrecht der Freiheit) dir. Rainer
Werner Fassbinder

All That Heaven Allows (1955) (introduced in Episode 6)


dir. Douglas Sirk

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) (aka Angst essen Seele auf)
dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) (aka Die Bitteren Trnen
der Petra von Kant) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder

All About Eve (1950) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Alice in the Cities (1974) (aka Alice in den Stdten) dir. Wim
Wenders

An Affair to Remember (1957) dir. Leo McCarey

Gods of the Plague (1970) (aka Gtter der Pest) dir. Rainer Werner
Fassbinder

The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) (aka Das zweite


Erwachen der Christa Klages) dir. Margarethe von Trotta

Burden of Dreams (1982) dir. Les Blank

Arabian Nights (1974) (aka Il fiore delle mille e una notte) dir. Pier
Paolo Pasolini

The Spider's Stratagem (1970) (aka Strategia del ragno)


dir. Bernardo Bertolucci

The Conformist (1970) (aka Il conformista) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci

Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese

Women in Love (1969) dir. Ken Russell

Performance (1970) dir. Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg

Mean Streets (1973) (introduced in Episode 9) dir. Martin Scorsese

Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Walkabout (1971) dir. Nicolas Roeg

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir

My Brilliant Career (1979) dir. Gillian Armstrong

Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) dir. Noriaki


Tsuchimoto

The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) dir. Kazuo Hara

Black Girl (1966) (aka La noire de...) (introduced in Episode 8)


dir. Ousmane Sembne

Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) dir. Richard Thorpe

La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1971) dir. Assia Djebar

Xala (1975) dir. Ousmane Sembne

Sinemaabi: A Dialogue with Djibril Diop Mambty (1997) dir. Beti


Ellerson Poulenc

Badou Boy (1970) dir. Djibril Diop Mambty

Hynes (1992) (aka Hyenas/Ramatou) dir. Djibril Diop Mambty

Kaddu Beykat (1975) (aka Lettre paysanne) dir. Safi Faye

Harvest: 3,000 Years (1976) (aka Mirt sost shi amit) dir. Haile
Gerima

Umut (1970) (aka Hope) dir. Yilmaz Gney & Serif Gren

Yol (1982) dir. Yilmaz Gney & Serif Gren

The Battle of Chile (1975/1977/1979) (aka La batalla de Chile)


dir. Patricio Guzmn

The Holy Mountain (1973) (aka La montaa sagrada) dir. Alejandro


Jodorowsky

Episode 11 - The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian


Mainstream[edit]
1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture - Around the
World.

The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang

A Touch of Zen (1971) dir. King Hu

Enter the Dragon (1973) dir. Robert Clouse

A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo

Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping

The Matrix (1999) dir. Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski

Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark

New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee

Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif

Devi (1960) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Satyajit Ray

Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar

Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra

Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy

The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (aka Mohammad,


Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha Akkad

The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir.


Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold

The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine

The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin

A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming

Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

The Making of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent


Bouzereau

Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg

Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (introduced in Episode 1)


dir. George Lucas

The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa

Triumph of the Will (1935) (aka Triumph des Willens) (introduced


in Episode 4) dir. Leni Riefenstahl

Episode 12 - Fight the Power: Protest in Film[edit]


The 1980s: Moviemaking and Protest - Around the World.

The Horse Thief (1988) dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang

Yellow Earth (1985) dir. Chen Kaige

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

Come and See (1985) dir. Elem Klimov

Long Goodbyes (1971) dir. Kira Muratova

A Short Film About Killing (1988) dir. Krzysztof Kielowski

Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Wend Kuuni (1983) dir. Gaston Kabor

Yeelen (1987) dir. Souleymane Ciss

Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) (music video) dir. Russell
Mulcahy

Flashdance (1983) dir. Adrian Lyne

Top Gun (1986) dir. Tony Scott

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)

Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980) dir. John Sayles

Subway (1985) dir. Luc Besson

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) dir. Leos Carax

An American in Paris (1951) dir. Vincente Minnelli (introduced


in Episode 5)

Labyrinth of Passion (1982) dir. Pedro Almodvar

A Hard Day's Night (1964) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Richard


Lester

The Quince Tree Sun (1992) dir. Vctor Erice

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) dir. Stephen Frears

My Childhood (1972) dir. Bill Douglas

Gregory's Girl (1981) dir. Bill Forsyth

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) dir. Terence Davies

Intolerance (1916) dir. D. W. Griffith (introduced in Episode 1)

Young at Heart (1954) dir. Gordon Douglas

A Zed & Two Noughts (1986) dir. Peter Greenaway

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

Episode 13 - New Boundaries: World Cinema in Africa, Asia &


Latin America[edit]
1990-1998: The Last Days of Celluloid - Before the Coming of
Digital.

The Apple (1998) dir. Samira Makhmalbaf

A Moment of Innocence (1996) dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

And Life Goes On (1991) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Through the Olive Trees (1994) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

Days of Being Wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar-wai

In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai

Irma Vep (1996) dir. Olivier Assayas

A City of Sadness (1989) dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Tokyo Story (1953) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Yasujir Ozu

Vive L'Amour (1994) dir. Tsai Ming-liang

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto

Videodrome (1983) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. David


Cronenberg

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto

La Roue (1923) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Abel Gance

Ringu (1998) dir. Hideo Nakata

The Exorcist (1973) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. William Friedkin

Ugetsu Monogatari (1953) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi

Audition (1999) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Takashi Miike

Breaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier

Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) dir. Tom Fontana

Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier (introduced in Episode 2)

La Haine (1995) dir. Mathieu Kassovitz

Do the Right Thing (1989) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Spike Lee

Humanit (1999) dir. Bruno Dumont

Rosetta (1999) dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

Touki Bouki (1973) dir. Djibril Diop Mambty

Beau travail (1999) dir. Claire Denis

Late Spring (1949) dir. Yasujir Ozu

Crows (1994) dir. Dorota Kdzierzawska

Wednesday (1997) dir. Victor Kossakovsky

24 Realities a Second (2004) dir. Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor

Code Unknown (2000) (aka Code inconnu) (introduced in Episode


5) dir. Michael Haneke

Funny Games (1997) dir. Michael Haneke

Persona (1966) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Ingmar Bergman

Episode 14 - New American Independents & The Digital


Revolution[edit]

The 1990s: The First Days of Digital - Reality Losing Its Realness
in America and Australia.

Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott

Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) dir. James Cameron

Anchors Aweigh (1945) dir. George Sidney

Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Winsor


McCay

Jurassic Park (1993) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. Steven


Spielberg

Titanic (1997) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. James Cameron

Toy Story (1995) dir. John Lasseter

The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo
Snchez

House of Flying Daggers (2004) (introduced in Episode 12)


dir. Zhang Yimou

Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese

The Great Train Robbery (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter

The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak

Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino

Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino

City on Fire (1987) dir. Ringo Lam

Bande Part (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone

Miller's Crossing (1990) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick

Elephant (2003) dir. Gus Van Sant

Elephant (1989) dir. Alan Clarke

Gerry (2002) dir. Gus Van Sant

Stntang (1994) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Bla Tarr

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)


dir. Chantal Akerman

Last Days (2005) dir. Gus Van Sant

Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Psycho (1998) dir. Gus Van Sant

Cremaster 3 (2002) dir. Matthew Barney

Safety Last! (1923) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Fred C.


Newmeyer and Sam Taylor

RoboCop (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven

Starship Troopers (1997) dir. Paul Verhoeven

An Angel at My Table (1990) dir. Jane Campion

The Piano (1993) dir. Jane Campion

Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann

Episode 15 - Cinema Today and the Future[edit]


2000 Onwards: Film Moves Full Circle - and the Future of Movies.

Swiss Miss (1938) dir. John G. Blystone and Hal Roach

Blonde Venus (1932) dir. Josef von Sternberg

Employees Leaving the Lumiere Factory (1895) (introduced


in Episode 1) dir. Louis Lumire

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) dir. Michael Moore

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) dir. Paul Greengrass

tre et avoir (2002) dir. Nicolas Philibert

Zidane - A Portrait in the 21st Century (2006) dir. Douglas


Gordon and Philippe Parreno

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert


Ford (2007) dir. Andrew Dominik

Way Down East (1920) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith

Climates (2006) dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) dir. Cristi Puiu

The Headless Woman (2008) dir. Lucrecia Martel

Battle in Heaven (2005) dir. Carlos Reygadas

Oasis (2002) dir. Lee Chang-Dong

Memories of Murder (2003) dir. Bong Joon-ho

Oldboy (2003) dir. Park Chan-wook

La Lune un Mtre (1898) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Georges


Mlis

Mulholland Dr. (2001) dir. David Lynch

Requiem for a Dream (2000) dir. Darren Aronofsky

Songs from the Second Floor (2000) dir. Roy Andersson

Way Out West (1937) dir. James W. Horne

Indiscreet (1958) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Stanley Donen

Rules of Attraction (2002) dir. Roger Avary

Avatar (2009) dir. James Cameron

Motion Capture Mirrors Emotion (2009) dir. Jorge Ribas

Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Mother and Son (1997) dir. Alexander Sokurov

Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov

In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (2003) dir. Knut


Elstermann

Epilogue the Year 2046

Inception (2010) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Christopher Nolan

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) dir. Michel Gondry

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