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1965-1969: New Waves – Sweep Around the World.
- Ashes and Diamonds (1958) dir. Andrzej Wajda
- this movie is full of symbols that are supposed to communicate the deeper meaning of the scenes
- 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 film uses very deep focus in order to represent distance in space but also between people in their relationships
- The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) dir. Roman Polanski
- most of the films by Polanski are set in worlds isolated from the rest of society
- The Hand (1965) dir. Jiří Trnka
- The Hand is one of the most haunting and symbolic films in the story of film
- The Fireman’s Ball (1967) dir. Miloš Forman
- Forman saw life as comedic and absurd
- the film is made without gloss
- Daisies (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová
- The Red and the White (1968) dir. Miklós Jancsó
- a close up is not used in this film until the near end
- Une journée d’Andrei Arsenevitch (2000) dir. Chris Marker
- Andrei Rublev (1966) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- The Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- this film had themes of the human spirit soaring on
- Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Tarkovsky called his films endings directors of the absolute
- Nostalghia (1983) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
- Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors (1965) dir. Sergei Parajanov
- Parajanov appreciated poetic cinema and often used it in his film
- Andrei Tarkovsky & Sergei Parajanov – Islands (1988) dir. Levon Grigoryan
- Boy (1969) dir. Nagisa Oshima
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976) dir. Nagisa Oshima
- this film is based on a true story and starts off very gently
- Love and Crime (1969) dir. Teruo Ishii
- The Insect Woman (1963) dir. Shōhei Imamura
- the insect in this film is meant as a no-nonsense metaphor of the uphill battles of human beings
- Citizen Kane (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Orson Welles
- Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970) dir. Shōhei Imamura
- Ajantrik (1958) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
- The Cloud-Capped Star (1960) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
- Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975) dir. Ritwik Ghatak
- Ghatak’s films are usually heightened and emotional
- these films were about more than personal emotion but histories emotion
- Uski Roti (1970) dir. Mani Kaul
- Black God, White Devil (1964) dir. Glauber Rocha
- I Am Cuba (1964) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
- this film was actually rejected by many filmmakers
- The House Is Black (1963) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Forugh Farrokhzad
- the director of this film is the only film founding father to be a women
- Black Girl (1966) dir. Ousmane Sembène
- this film was Africas first innovative feature film
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) dir. Karel Reisz
- this film was more aware of people in the middle class
- Kes (1969) dir. Ken Loach
- Loach turns his sense of collective experience into a film style
- A Hard Day’s Night (1964) dir. Richard Lester
- Lester wanted to show how joyful the youth rebellion could be
- Primary (1960) dir. Robert Drew
- this film started the fly on the wall filming style
- Shadows (1959) dir. John Cassavetes
- this was the first film in a new movement called new American cinema
- Psycho (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- this film was a response to the new American cinema movement
- 66 Scenes from America (1982) dir. Jørgen Leth
- this film was meant to show the blankness of the hear and now
- Blow Job (1963) dir. Andy Warhol
- Warhol striped his film of all expressiveness
- Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) dir. Mike Nichols
- Medium Cool (1969) dir. Haskell Wexler
- this film pushed the relationship between documentary TV and movies as far as it could go.
- 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 (1921) dir. Walter Ruttmann