In my next practical film project I would like to incorporate elements from British New Wave, Parallel Cinema and Dogme. The elements I’d incorporate are filming on location, from BNW, realism, which is from both Parallel and BNW, and handheld cam, from Dogme.
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Filters
cinema du look
film movement in the 1980s and 1990s
Inspired by new Hollywood films, such as Francis Ford Coppola
focus on style over substance
Young, alienated protagonists, represent french youth of the 1980s
doomed love affairs
cynical view of police
high culture/pop culture references
key directors:
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Luc Besson
Leos Carax
model of genre development
Genre : Western
Experimental Western : The Great Train Robbery (Dir. Edwin S. Porter, 1903)
Experimental : Early films that help to form conventions
Classic Western : Stagecoach (Dir. John Ford, 1939)
Classic : The phase of films that establish narrative conventions of genre. This is part of this genre’s most successful and defining period
Parody Western : Rango (Dir. Gore Verbinski, 2011)
Parody : These are films that mimicked the genre in some comical way
Deconstruction Western : Django Unchained (Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
Deconstruction : This is the phase where films which have taken generic elements of a genre and amalgamated/merged them into sub genres
Auteur – Wesley Wales Anderson
Wes’ Style
Wes usually makes comedies and uses comedic camera movements like whip pans and regular pans. He uses male protagonists such as Ralph Fiennes’ M. Gustave H. He uses pastel colour palettes, which gives his movies a distinct look and utilises symmetry to make every frame memorable. Most of his movies feature a score composed by Alexandre Desplat, a French composer. Many of his films are set in Europe (eg; Grand Budapest Hotel, French Dispatch and Fantastic Mr. Fox).
Film Biography
Rushmore – 1998
The Royal Tenenbaums – 2001
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – 2004
The Darjeeling Limited – 2007
Fantastic Mr. Fox – 2009
Moonrise Kingdom – 2012
The Grand Budapest Hotel – 2014
Isle of Dogs – 2018
The French Dispatch – 2021
Recurring Actors
Jason Schwartzman:
Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
Bill Murray:
Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch
Owen Wilson:
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
Willem Dafoe:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
Jeff Goldblum:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs
Michael Gambon:
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Adrian Brody:
The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
Edward Norton:
Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch
Fisher Stevens:
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch
Tilda Swinton:
Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch
Frances McDormand:
Moonrise Kingdom, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch
Bob Balaban:
Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch
Lucas Hedges:
Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Harvey Keitel:
Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs
Saoirse Ronan:
The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
F. Murray Abraham:
The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs
Mathieu Amalric:
The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
Léa Seydoux:
The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch
Liev Schreiber:
Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch
Anjelica Huston:
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited
HE DID NOT DRAW THIS
Soviet constructivism
Movie poster for Ninich, by Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, 1927
Expressionist Art Movement
bold colours and shapes
abstract
focus on emotion rather than realism
heavy brush strokes
political
spiritual rather than realistic
Film : 1903-1918
Hollywood was made the hub of all film production in USA as it was the furthest away from the east coast. The east coast was where all the film patents were.
Denmark’s film industry was described as ‘the best in the world’ in the 1910s because of how good the lighting in the movies were.
Häxan – Benjamin Christensen
The Phantom Carriage – Victor Sjöström
Film : 1895-1918
The first film was ‘Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory’, by the Lumière brothers. It was made in 1895.
The phantom ride is when you attach the camera to a train, or another vehicle. It gives the camera a ghostly, floating effect.
The first ever close up was in the film ‘The Sick Kitten’
The first ever cut was in ‘The Life of an American Fireman’
The first movie star was Florence Lawrence
PORTFOLIO OUTLINE
| | Production Role 1 | Production Role 2 | Production Role 3 – Complete Film | ||
| ROLE | Cinematographer | Editor | Director | ||
| GENRE (SUBGENRE) | A | B | A | B | |
| MOVEMENT INFLUENCE(S) | A | B | A | B | |
| PRACTITIONER INFLUENCE (S) | A | B | A | B | |
| TARGET AUDIENCE | A | B | A | B | |
| PRODUCTION SCALE | A | B | A | B | |
| KEY THEMES/ISSUES | A | B | A | B | |
Dunkirk first response
| Film | Preference | Memorable Scene | Film Element Focus |
| Dunkirk(2017) | 8/10 | first scene | Sound |