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1967-1979: New American Cinema.

• Duck Soup (1933) dir. Leo McCarey
• Artists and Models (1955) dir. Frank Tashlin
• Catch-22 (1970) dir. Mike Nichols
  • this film is considered one of the great movie satires of its time
• Mash (1970) dir. Robert Altman
  • the use of zooms and long lenses in this film made it so that actors didn’t know if they were in the frame of a shot until they saw the movie
• The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols
• The Fireman’s Ball (1967) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Miloš Forman
• One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) dir. Miloš Forman
• The Last Movie (1971) dir. Dennis Hopper
  • the film was filmed as a documentary but was actually part of the movie
  • this was a hate letter to American film
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) dir. Robert Altman
  • in this film there are no heroes or villains there are just character who a confused with the world
• The Conversation (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • this film was about getting lost in the fragments of other peoples lives that your own life dissolves
• Mean Streets (1973) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • this film held importance to Scorsese because it was about the place where he grew up
• Taxi Driver (1976) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Martin Scorsese
• Chikamatsu Monogatari (1954) (introduced in Episode 3) dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Mizoguchi kept it camera away from the raw emotion of its characters
• Raging Bull (1980) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Martin Scorsese
  • this film was visual influenced by the documentary Scorsese made about his parents
• Italianamerican (1974) dir. Martin Scorsese
• American Gigolo (1980) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Paul Schrader
• Light Sleeper (1992) dir. Paul Schrader
  • the characters in Schrader’s films were emotionally empty and the films were about filling that emptiness
• Pickpocket (1959) (introduced in Episode 7) dir. Robert Bresson
• The Walker (2007) dir. Paul Schrader
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Killer of Sheep (1978) dir. Charles Burnett
  • Burnett got into film to address the stereotypes that were established by Hollywood
• The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch
• Annie Hall (1977) dir. Woody Allen
• City Lights (1931) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Charlie Chaplin
• Manhattan (1979) dir. Woody Allen
  • this film was shot very differently from Allen’s old films and strayed away from free form filming
• The Last Picture Show (1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  • Bogdanovich was known for using a mix of the old and new film-style
• The Wild Bunch (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) dir. Sam Peckinpah
• Badlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
  • Malick was considered one of the most reclusive people in film history
• Days of Heaven (1978) dir. Terrence Malick
  • it was revealed that Haskell Wexler shot much of Days of Heaven
• Mirror (1975) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • In this film, the wind seems to be nature coming alive and part of the story
• Cabaret (1972) dir. Bob Fosse
  • this film could have been a Hollywood musical but uses lots of close-ups which is generally strayed away from in musicals
• The Godfather (1972) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • this film was the most successful upgrading of a 30’s film genera
• Chinatown (1974) dir. Roman Polanski
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. John Huston
• Jules et Jim (1962) dir. François Truffaut