FILM STUDIES

 BRITISH FILM SINCE 1995 - TWO FILM STUDY Overview: - New mood in British film in mid 1990's - Lack of funding for British film during Thatcher's time in office (1971-91) - 1990's new initiatives on financial front contribute to output from different directors - Work varied reflecting social and cultural contexts of Britain - Work of Gurindha Chadha - marks contribution of Asian-British film production - ethnic diversity from gender perspective)  1990's onwards - continuing to offer what British films and cinema does best in terms of social realism but also new directions across genres: sci-fi, comedy, horror, urban - Danny Boyle, 28 Days later, Shaun of The Dead, Attack the Block, Under the Skin.  Social Realism continues to respond to new social issues.  NEW WAVE CINEMA 1960'S - Rebelled against social hierarchies - making working class people (ordinary people) and their issues being visible and important.  - British film post 1960's reflects push to visualise...

 FILM STYLES AND MOVEMENTS  - Film movements often emerge from an earlier cinematic trend - to rebel. to disrupts, recreate or replace. - Precipitated by: artistic factors - wanting to do something new with cinema as medium. - Wider contextual factors - social, political, upheaval, wider political movements influencing art and cinema, material factors - funding often impacted by social or political transformations.  FRENCH NEW WAVE 1959-64 Key architect, Francois Truffaut. Rebels against older generation of filmmakers: their ideas and methods. "Cinema du papa" - grandad's cinema.  New directions; new techniques, new ideas / themes and talent. Outside locations, mobile lighter equipment, younger actors.  Auteurs of the French New Wave: Alan Resnais, Jean Luc-Godard, Jacues Rivette, Agnès Varda.  ITALIAN NEO-REALISM 1942-51 Emerges before the end of the Second World War Internal influences - new reality in Italy; poverty, bombings - post war desolation, physi...

What if missing socks were really just hiding in your house having a rave behind the washing machine.  What if the tomatoes in your fridge were actually really rude to the cucumber  What if your duvet had issues with touching people so you just assault it every night  What if the the missing socks weren't missing at all. But dancing in the middle of the wall. Your missing sock, where could it be? Behind the washing machine it may be. You creep your head through the door. And hear the rumbling of the bass straight through your core. Right in front of, before your eyes. Your missing socks what a surprise. Flapping about, doing a Mexican wave. Your missing socks where having a rave.  MISSING SOCKS The real question is... what happens to those missing socks, you remember putting every singe one with their pair into the washing machine. 2 hours and 49 minutes has passed, its time to remove them and put it in the dryer. 3 SOCKS ARE MISSING. How is this possible? What abomi...

 CAPTAIN FANTASTIC: COMPONENT 1 SECTION B US FILMS SINCE 2005 A critic of American society, a questioning of values. The screenplay explicitly engages with those economical, political, cultural ideas.  An independent film.  KEY CHARACTERS: Ben - deceased wife, Leslie. Six children: Vespyr, Kielyr, Zaja, Bo-devan, Nai, Rellian. Dave and Harper. Jack  BEN CASH Liberalism / progressiveness  Anti-establishment / authority  Liberal education  Power and freedom (NOAM CHOMSKY) Questioning and rebelling against status quo  Being outside of the established system.  JACK BERTAND Tradition and convention Status quo / authority  Traditional education Order and conservatism  Conserving and preserving status quo Working within the system OPENING SEQUENCE:  Landscaping wide shots and pull focus of the surroundings and deer. Shallow depth of field. Handheld tracking shots of the deer. Zoom in. Value of freedom, a free animal.  Sudden...

 "The director is always the most important influence on a film" Compare how far your TWO films support this statement.  Some mass audiences would rather turn to the belief that the actors and actresses are always the most important influence on a film due to themselves actually being the main focus; however, compared to more niche, indie films or films directed by true auteurs can transpose this opinion. In fact, the influence a director withholds is the driving force of the film; if the actual movie is either extremely self-conscious of the director, reflecting personal aspects, or if the film is a biopic dramatising the life of a historical individual, the director will always have a recognisable influence as their own personal style and ideologies may always be revealed through film form. In this essay I will be comparing "Sunset Boulevard" directed by Billy Wilder and "Bonnie and Clyde" directed by Arthur Penn. Both films are incredible cinema classic...

 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) Component 1 Section B spectatorship and ideology Coen brothers  Distinctive filmmakers within wider context of US contemporary production. Auteurs. This is based on a book of the same name by Cormac Mcarthy released in 2005.  Overview US values and ideologies.  (further down the like) - our spectatorship and spectatorship issues Differences between Gen Z and Millennials  Values Speech Views on certain topics - political views Internet Technology Opening scene for No Country for Old Men  Accent and language used seems very Country/Western Voiceover Talks about older generation? Younger generation? Willing to die for the job - says younger generation wouldn’t Cant compare yourself to the old timers Thinks older generation is somewhat better? More respectful to the older generation than the younger Younger generation doesn’t carry a gun Likes to hear the story for the old timers - respectful of them His gra...

 DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) Billy Wilder  - Wrote the screenplay  - Directed - Film Noir, Crime, Drama, moral ambiguity  FILM NOIR: Defined by stylistic and cinematic features or themes.  Low budget due to war and lack of funding in Hollywood amongst studios. Use of lighting to create shadows and suggest crowd when few actors were paid to be on set.  The "noir" alludes to the darkness.  Use of lighting to create atmosphere.  Film noir is about the symbolic use of lighting to create a mood.  Noir - moral ambiguity and uncertainty. Defining a genre through themes.  Transitions in the moral landscape due to changing gender roles (both wars).  Plots around duplicity, deceit, individual desire and gain. Double-crossing people.  FEMME FATALE.  FEMME FATALE - WILDER Aligned with Sunset Boulevard - Norma Desmond.