Monthly Archives: March 2022
Filters
methods of montage
OVERTONAL MONTAGE -trainspotting (danny boyle, 1996)
METRIC MONTAGE – requiem for a dream (darren aronofsky, 2000)
INTELLECTUAL -BlacKkKlansman (spike lee, 2018)
La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
In what way did Chris Marker consciously challenge the established conventions of storytelling with La Jetée?
French New Wave
CLASSIC FRENCH NEW WAVE FILMS
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INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
Cahiers Du Cinema
Alexandre Astruc was a French film critic and film director. His contribution to the auteur theory centers on his idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens.
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summarise what Astruc meant by the term “auteur” and give examples of the films cited by the movement as being created by auteur directors
the auteur theory was derived from astrucs concept of camera-stylo that the director oversees all audio and visual elements of the motion picture.
Summarise what Astruc meant by the term “Auteur” and give some examples of the films cited by the movement as being created by Auteur directors. Remember to illustrate your post.
An auteur is an artist with a distinctive approach, usually a film director whose filmmaking control is so unbounded but personal that the director is likened to the “author” of the film, which thus manifests the director’s unique style or thematic focus.
Auteur
Auteur theory theory of filmmaking in which the director is viewed as the major creative force in a motion picture. Essentially it is the idea that the director has complete control and the film is consider as a piece of art.
Examples of Auteurs of the time-
Orson wells– Citizen kane, Touch of evil
Alfred Hitchcock– Psycho, vertigo , Rear window
cahiers du cinema and auteur theory
Alexandre Astruc’s contribution to the auteur theory centres on his notion of the caméra-stylo or “camera-pen” and the idea that directors should wield their cameras like writers use their pens.
Examples Of Auteur Directors:
.Jean Luc Godard
Francois Truffaut
Agnes Varda
french new wave auteurs
Astruc said that the camera is a pen that the director holds to over see the whole production of their film and is considered to be an author of a film rather than a director.
Cahiers Du Cinema Auteurs
François Truffaut – The 400 Blows
About a troubled youth the drama film was released on June 3rd 1959.
Jean-Luc Godard – Breathless (A Bout De Souffle)
About a criminal trying to pursue his love interest this dramatic crime film was release on march 16th 1960.
Jacques Rivette – Paris belongs to us
A mystery film released in 1961 on December the 13th.
Jean Douchet – Celine and Julie Go Boating
Released on September 18th in 1974 a fantasy drama film.