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Classic Ingmar Bergman Black and White, 1947

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Seventh Seal- Antonius Block, and Squire Jons

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Japan, black and white 1950 - theme of human witness is unreliable

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Rashomon

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Prague, 1968 -name the characters too

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Unbearable Lightness of Being - Tomas, Tereza, Sabina, Franz, Karenin

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Meeting over dinner, long conversation 1981

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My Dinner with Andre

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Martin Scorsese

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Born 1942-
Meticulous plots, realism
No good or bad characters - all are in the middle

Key Movies
Wolf of Wall Street
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
Departed
Taxi Driver
Gangs of New York
New York Stories

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Mank

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David Fincher
About the guy who wrote Citizen Kane

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David Fincher

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Born 1962, NYC
Known for dark themes, camera angle during action
Key Movies
Fight Club
Mank
Gone Girl
Zodiac
Seven
Social Network
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Stanley Kubrick

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1928-1999
The Shining
Clockwork Orange
2001
Full Metal Jacket
Dr. Strangelove
Eyes Wide Shut

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Francis Ford Coppola

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1939-
Godfather
Apocalypse Now
Lost in Translation
The Conversation
The Outsiders

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Kathryn Bigelow

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1951-
Hurt Locker
Detroit
Zero Dark Thirty
Point Break

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Akira Kurosawa

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1910-1999
Seven Samurai
Rashomon

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David Lynch

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1946-
Known for surreal - how you feel when your life goes &^%$
Blue Velvet
Twin Peaks
Mulholland Drive
Dune (1982)

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Salvador Dali film- short, gross

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Un Chien Andalou
1928
“Handmade” Low Budget
Was never intended to make sense
Was meant to shock the audience

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Early Martin Scorsese Film, about vigilantism

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“Taxi Driver”
Set the tone for the gritty movies that Scorsese would produce for the rest of his life
Robert De Niro
Jodie Foster

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Fincher vs Christopher Nolan

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Fincher - low key lighting, heavy shadows - FIght Club, Seven, Gone Girl, Mank, Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan - Unconventional structures - weird plotlines, (Tenet, Inception, Memento, Dark Knight)

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Woody Allen

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1935
Tons of movies both as actor and director
Hannah and her sisters
Manhattan
Annie Hall
Directing
Blue Jasmine
Midnight in Paris

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What to say when asked for a password

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Fidelio

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Analyze Mulholland Drive

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2/3 of movie is Diane’s dream
She dreams of innocence/ renewal
She actually hates Camilla

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Blond from Mulholland Drive

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Naomi Watts

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Christopher Nolan

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The Prestige
Memento
Tenet
Inception
Interstellar
Dunkirk
The Dark Knight Rises
Following

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Enemy Premise

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Denis Villeneuve - set in Toronto. Mulholland Drive meets Fight Club. One actor -semi successful, fantasizes about being a university professor. Not a great movie, but interesting.

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Shutter Island Explained

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Scorsese - DiCaprio- Guy who believes he’s a US Marshall investigating a disappearance in a criminally insane island penitentiary, finds out that he’s a delusional convict himself

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Jacob’s Ladder Premise

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Jacob believes himself to be a successful military surgeon post Gulf war, where he fought and originally thought he lost his brother. Although we’re led to believe that his brother is a burnt out vet, we learn at the end that he’s the burnt out vet and he’s living his brother’s life.

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Inception Premise

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Christopher Nolan - An agent is able to learn people’s secrets by entering their dreams. Sometimes he brings other agents with him. They can go into a dream within a dream etc. The crux of the movie is him going actually planting an idea (inception) vs learning ideas.
He goes 4 layers deep to do this, but it works. In the end we think he gets out but he stays in a dream with his wife. Fourth layer is Limbo. If you include reality there are five levels

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Predestination Movie Premise

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Ethan Hawke’s character is a time travelling agent much like Timecop. He actually turns out to be all the main characters in the movie since he was originally a baby who grew into a woman who conceives a baby with herself, she becomes an agent herself, gets disfigured to the point that she has reconstructive surgery and turns into Ethan Hawke.

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Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Premise

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Jim Carrey’s character has the option of wiping out the memory of a relationship that ended and caused him pain, but decides not to. The point is that despite, or perhaps because of imperfections in relationships, we need to hold onto them.

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Moon Premise

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Sam is a lone worker on a lunar mining station. He realizes that he’s been lied to by his employer, as he’s being replaced periodically by clones and time on earth has moved on 15 years.

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Arrival Explained

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Everything’s circular- time, language, the plot, Louise’s daughter’s name Hannah.

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Kuleshov Effect

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The meaning of image A is determined by its juxtaposition to image B, C, or D.

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David Lean movies

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Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
Bridge on the river Kwai
Great Expectations
Brief Encounter

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Who directed Lawrence of Arabia?

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David Lean

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Movie about Van Gogh, actor and director

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At Eyernity’s Gate
Willem Dafoe
Julian Schnabel

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Who directed Diving bell and the butterfly?

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Julian Schnabel

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Observations about Diving Bell and Butterfly

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Character who never knew failure is faced witg it. Despite only blinking, he had more social connections than people who are typical. Reminded me of the Sessions.

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Three Woody Allen Films I’ve seen

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Manhattan
Annie Hall
Husbands and Wives

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What I liked about Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)

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People in middle age are either single and wishing for stability, or in a marriage and dying to get out of suburbia.

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Metaphor in Chinatown

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Water and the Truth

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Who directed Chinatown?

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Román Polanski

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Why is Roman Polanski controversial?

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Wife (Sharon Tate) murdered by Manson followers
Accused of having sex with a 13 year old at Jack Nicholson’s house

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Hallmarks of film noir

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Fallen/falling middle class hero
Femme fatale
Has to be a crime
Entrapment
Often Los Angeles
American Dream failed
Nihilistic/ unhappy ending

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Modern film noir movies

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Blade Runner
Mimento
Taxi Driver
Gone girl

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Metrópolis Year and director

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1927 Fritz Lang

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Star of 12 Angry Men

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Henry Fonda

44
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What is special about Nocturnal Animals?

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3 storylines
Metaphor is revenge
Amy Adams

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Amy Adams Movies

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Nocturnal Animals
Arrival
American Hustle
Man of Steel

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Star of To Kill A Mockingbird

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Gregory Peck

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