Minelli’s 1956 film Lust for life and Ron Howards 2001 A beautiful mind both depict the harsh realism of mental illness. Lust for life tells the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s struggles during his short life whilst on the other hand A beautiful Mind brings the point of view of John Nash mental illness to light. These films perfectly portray two different ways of viewing mental illness, Minelli’s focuses on an outside view of the life of Vincent Van Gogh whilst Howards focus on putting the audience into the perspective of John Nash showing the experiences and episodes he went through.
French New Wave constitutes a vital movement in film history. While the movement originated in the 1950s, much of modern filmmaking is still firmly rooted in French New Wave thought—from the works of Quentin Tarantino to Martin Scorsese
All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after SA Gerasimov (VGIK) is a federal state educational budgetary institution of higher and postgraduate professional education of the Russian Federation, founded on September 1, 1919 in Moscow. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. Since May 2004, VGIK has also been implementing secondary vocational education programs. The Institute prepares creative specialists in the field of cinematography
The movement rejected decorative stylization in favor of the industrial assemblage of materials. Constructivists were in favour of art for propaganda and social purposes, and were associated with Soviet socialism, the Bolsheviks and the Russian avant-garde.
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.
After the 1917 revolution, fresh film stock was in short supply, so filmmakers learnt by experimenting with found footage (shots from old films), looking at what happened if they put them together in different ways. They found that people would respond to a shot differently depending on what images came before and after it.
The Russian Revolution meant that there was a huge demand for propaganda. Revolutionaries like Lenin thought film was the ideal way to get revolutionary ideas across to people who couldn’t read.
Filmmakers like Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov thought the continuity system was ‘bourgeois’ because it faked reality. They believed in Marxist ‘dialectic’ which was about the conflict between ideas. Eisenstein wanted to use cinema to stir emotions and inspire the audience to get behind the revolution.
Ridley Scott’s blade runner (1982) was heavily influenced by the German expressionist film movement taking imitated sequences from other German Expressionist films. Bladerunner’s emphasis on the degraded, alienating city resembled that of many expressionist “street films” taken together. Some propose that “Bladerunner” was a remake of Lang’s Metropolis.
