Scenes from a Film Study

1
Introduction

The First:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLvKZ6nIiA
High Noon (1952)


The Milestone:

The Great Train Robbery (1903)


Keaton:


Kubrick:

Full Metal Jacket (1987)


2
City Symphony/Urban Jungle

The City Symphony:



Man With a Movie Camera (1927)

Lang:

M (1931)

Noir:

Double Indemnity (1944)

Neo-Noir:



Chinatown (1974)

NYC Take 1:

Taxi Driver (1976)

NYC Take 2:

Manhattan (1979)

Death of the Gangster, Take One:

Little Caesar (1931)

Death of the Gangster, Take Two:

The Roaring Twenties (1939)


3
The Land, The Road, The West





Bonnie & Clyde (1967)


The Wild Bunch (1969)


North by Northwest (1959)


El Topo (1970)


4
Documentary/Cinéma vérité



Grey Gardens (1975)


Grey Gardens (2009)


Salesman (1968)


Gimme Shelter (1970)


Fog of War (2003)

Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

Director: Werner Herzog

Dont Look Back (1967)

Director: D.A. Pennebaker

Network (1976)

Director: Sidney Lumet

Grey Gardens (2009)

"Well, mother and I are very entertaining, that's true... "

Director: Michael Sucsy
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)

"I'd rather be damned-if-I-don't."

Director: Errol Morris

"I think the human race needs to think about killing.
How much evil must we do in order to do good."