1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…
- Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welale
- Creatively worked with light
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
- Made Bagdad decretive
- Shadow lighting
- low focus
- Clever cutting with consistent characters facing
- Spacing that isn’t confusing
- Uses anticipation
- Classical < Romantic
- Reality breaks fantasy
- Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
- Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- Geometric choreography
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- Shadows have light
- Very optimistic movie
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
- Dark
- Sharp shadows
- Sharp outfits
- The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- Sparkling, rye and more feminine
- Glamorous
- The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
- Fascination with cameras
- Thinking like an architect
- One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
- A cut replaces one space with another
- Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
- Daredevilly
- Camera angles to show depth
- Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
- Spontaneous (improves)
- The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
- Setting up jokes in the first half, then repeating them in the second half
- Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
- Inspired by Keaton
- finds grumpiness funny
- Deadpan camera movement to intensify comedy
- Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Fascination of comedy via Body movement
- City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Choreographed dance like movement for comedy
- Shows how his mind works; playing with something until it works.
- The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Unique dynamics between characters
- Humanizes cinema comedy
- Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- spectacular imagery
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
- Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
- Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
- Impersonation of Chaplin
- Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
- Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
- Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
- Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
- influenced by a ballsy dreamer
…And the First of its Rebels
- Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
- The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
- Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
- The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
- The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
- The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
- Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
- Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
- Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
- The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
- The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
- Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
- Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
- Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard