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Film Noirish

The Rules of Film Noir - youtube


Film Noir basics youtube 10 minutes
Detailed documentary from Annenberg
http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=211
Martin Scorsese - A Personal Journey - smugglers - noir cinema
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnzB_vx9PgU

Noir Nation on Youtube


http://movieclips.com/rRKU2-film-noir-secondary-genre-videos/#p=1
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DDC01FDA93C7F27

http://filmsnoir.net/
visual style
http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/crime/pictures/double-indemnity/double-indem-noir.html
What is Film Noir?
http://filmsnoir.net/what-is-film-noir
MIT course on Noir
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies/cms-s61-special-subject-the-rise-of-film-noir-
january-iap-2012/readings/

femme fatale in noir


http://www.filmnoirstudies.com/essays/no_place5.asp
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/film_noir/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=H6vMfC3_p64&playnext=1&list=PL5DDC01FDA93C7F27&feature=results_main
men in noir
http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/crime/pictures/double-indemnity/double-indem-noir.html
Still Photos of NYC - Life magazine archive
http://life.time.com/culture/new-york-city-classic-photos-of-the-big-apple-from-life-magazine/#29

Chinatown
The Maltese Falcon
The Third Man
http://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/imce/jdriver/DRIVER_Third_Man.pdf
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2013/03/07/resurrecting-the-third-man/
http://www.filmsite.org/thir.html

The Third Man - film clips


http://movieclips.com/kcCd-carol-reed-director-videos/#p=1

Double Indemnity

one of the best movie scripts - wilder and chandler


http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Double-Indemnity.html
http://sfy.ru/?script=double_indemnity_1944
and film noir visual: stills
http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/crime/pictures/double-indemnity/double-indem-noir.html
roger ebert: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/19981220/REVIEWS08/401010313/1023
women's studies:
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/theatrefilm/current/projector/vol1issue2folder/vol1issue2art3.htm
notes and overview
http://blog.cinemaautopsy.com/2008/10/09/notes-on-film-double-indemnity/

dialogue = sex clip


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdcYnlkhx8

Gangsters and Samurai


GANGSTER-ish/ crime-ish (hop, skip and jump thru the vast territory and border crossings)

Gangster films - Martin Scorsese A Personal Journey Through American Cinema


http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8KvhEQmGmxQ&list=PLVVPZXdMr_akgT2VjjomTHCVf0MY7Yr04

Tarantino talks about Gangster films


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZmxSZ_0gac
and crime dialogue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8C1bUPg-Qk
Classic Gangster movies 1930 to 1934
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/gangsters/intro.html

The Big Lebowski - Coens (ref. noir, westerns, musicals, cinema of most kinds)
some references:
References - academic article
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/movieconnections
http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/crime/pictures/lebowski/lebowski-genre.html
genre mash-up: http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/crime/pictures/lebowski/lebowski-genre.html
politics satire: http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/crime/pictures/lebowski/lebowski-politics.html

coens: http://dudespaper.com/dude-university/the-coens-effort-the-big-lebowski/
academic article: homeric stuff in coen brothers films
http://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=jrf

Breathless - France (ref. The Maltese Falcon, Bogart - watching movies)


A Decade Under the Influence - The Banner of Godard
http://www.criterion.com/films/268-breathless
http://www.film.com/movies/whats-the-big-deal-breathless-1960
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/movies/23scott.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-breathless-1960
http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/cteq/breathless/
http://tags.library.upenn.edu/project/26985
clips from Bogart's last movie The Harder They Fall (said to be Poiccard's model of Bogart based on
still and poster he sees)
http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/193/The-Harder-They-Fall/videos.html
CLIPS from Bogart's early gangster movies - more likely the Bogart model for Belmando"s character)
http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/domain/7724/film arts/Angels With Dirty Faces
1938 TRAILER.wmv
http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/domain/7724/film arts/Bullets or Ballots 1936
Humphrey Bogart The Racketeers Wars.wmv
http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/domain/7724/film arts/King of the Underworld
1939 Humphrey Bogart.wmv
http://www.sandi.net/cms/lib/CA01001235/Centricity/domain/7724/film arts/The Roaring Twenties
1939.wmv
Pulp Fiction (ref. quoting and riffing on everything gangsterish plus)
references and quotes
http://wiki.tarantino.info/index.php/Pulp_Fiction_Movie_References_Guide
Tarantino talks about inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlC1nVUFuck
moral choices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DyDMS-Ag28
characters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5SFLINFYrM
essential elements
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZmxSZ_0gac
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/movieconnections

Goodfellas

Tracking shots other films


http://www.popmatters.com/pm/tools/print/164409/
the Copacabana long take
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBMKyNJvNV8
Siskel and Ebert review
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt_L8gDfM98
goodfellas - tommy makes spider dance and shoots him in the foot: mention oklahoma kid and shane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8wJt59Q6So
great train robbery- bad guys make innocent guy (bronco billy anderson, actor) dance @ 11:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oTdPklBE0Y
final shot and great train robbery quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUWKrzsFh2c&list=PL218E5E3DBE9075B0
great train robbery end
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hknJkYN5dqQ
Wood Allen Talks About Goodfellas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW2bWAcsPCk
Scarface 1932 - Hawks

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/gangsters/scarface.html

TCM - Scarface background and intro


http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=410277|90484&name=Scarface
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhXsgQR4hr4

Trailers for both the 1932 original and the 1983 remake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0AmMpnEvM

1983 Ending: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-tYrLvdCY


1932 Ending: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvbu2UMHeY

Rashomon
Robert Altman talks about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWQa0GExt8
commentary on final scene cinematography
http://vimeo.com/9107217

http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=338725|136021&name=Rashomon
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/195-the-rashomon-effect
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/920-rashomon
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/196-akira-kurosawa-on-rashomon
KUROSAWA
First part of six of documentary about Kurosawa The Last Emperor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Fj138Asb4

Ghost Dog - way of the samurai


http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/7/ghost-3/
http://www.filmmonthly.com/video_and_dvd/ghost_dog_way_of_the_samurai.html
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/apr2000/ghst-a01.shtml
http://facultyfiles.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/GhostDog.htm
http://www.jim-jarmusch.net/films/ghost_dog/read_about_it/interview_with_forest_whita.html
http://sweetbottom.tripod.com/images/Articles/March232000.htm
http://louderthanwar.com/jim-jarmusch-talks-about-his-great-ghost-dog-film/

youtube clips:
http://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=ghost+dog+way+of+the+samurai&oq=ghost+dog&gs_l=youtube.1.4.0l10.32081.32081.
0.35762.1.1.0.0.0.0.101.101.0j1.1.0...0.0...1ac.1.ZcFbAU09vIw
reviews:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/externalreviews

interview with the director: http://louderthanwar.com/jim-jarmusch-talks-about-his-great-ghost-dog-


film/
http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/cteq/ghost_dog/
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/jim-jarmusch/
and hip hop - soundtrack
http://volume.revues.org/1973
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubWxbCImLiA

Le Samourai
youtube clips: http://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=le+samourai&oq=le+sam&gs_l=youtube.1.0.0l10.229708.231490.0.235833.6.6.0.0.0.0.
108.478.5j1.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.v_YvIag6IvM
http://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19970608/REVIEWS08/401010337/1023
http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/cteq/samourai/
http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Le_samourai_rev.html
http://www.subtitledonline.com/reviews/le-samourai
cinematography: http://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar04/dvd/page2.html
and other melville- bob le flambeur: http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/40/jean-pierre-melville/
http://cinemaroll.com/cinemarolling/le-samourai-a-super-cool-thriller-of-the-french-new-wave/
Ghost Dog and Le Samourai
http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai-%E2%80%93-
comparisons-to-le-samourai/
http://www.kamera.co.uk/features/ghostdog.html
http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Le_samourai_rev.html

http://www.criterion.com/lists/85535-the-existential-hitman
Yojimbo
youtube clips -
http://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=cinematography+yojimbo+fistful+full+of+dollars&oq=cinematography+yojimbo+fistful
+full+of+dollars&gs_l=youtube.12...1104552.1134255.0.1138234.48.39.0.6.6.0.232.2068.26j3j1.30.0..
.0.0...1ac.1.7SPO30zRnVw
http://www.imdb.com/reviews/205/20510.html

http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/yojimbo-a-fistful-of-dollars-and-last-man-standing
http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1132291
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/projects/kurosawa/films/Yojimbo.html
http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/yojimbo-all-things-dashiell-hammett
http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/cteq/gun/ this gun for hire
seven samurai http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/jfilm/sevensamurai.html
KUROSAWA INFLUENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1STFM39vJ4&list=PL68A192929439FD31
http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/yojimbo-a-fistful-of-dollars-and-last-man-standing

ANIMATION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnsBLF5cYpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkryMvkeNK8
Miyazaki on animation
http://anime-magna-1-films.blogspot.com/2012/07/creation-process-and-animation-style.html
General
http://www.filmeducation.org/resources/primary/teaching_with_film/primary_animation/introduction/
Daffy Duck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVspg-K-rTw
The Iron Giant
http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2008/12/hayao-miyazaki-and-giant-robot.html
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/148012|0/The-Iron-Giant.html

Princess Mononoke
http://www.princess-mononoke.com/
http://www.eclipse.net/~tyrell/c_i_n_e_m_a/99_Films/Princess_Mononoke/princess_mononoke.html
http://prezi.com/rft_4eg4tzyb/the-heros-journey/
http://anime-magna-1-films.blogspot.com/2012/07/creation-process-and-animation-style.html

Persepolis
http://www.filmeducation.org/persepolis/production-process.html
http://www.parstimes.com/film/persepolis_pr.html

Waltz with Bashir


http://www.studiodaily.com/2008/12/how-they-did-it-waltz-with-bashir/
Interview - Cannes
http://waltzwithbashir.com/film.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/chi-0123-waltzwithbashir-
reviewjan23,0,6171072.story
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/115783|0/Who-Framed-Roger-Rabbit-.html
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit

Spirited Away
Lesson Sequence for Spirited Away
http://www.sparknotes.com/film/spiritedaway/themes.html
Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film "Spirited Away"
https://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/Vol8No2/boydShinto.htm
http://culturevisuelle.org/introtovc/archives/727
http://www.angelfire.com/yt3/pigsbreath/analysis.html
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/SpiritedAway/2.html
hero's journey:
http://voices.yahoo.com/a-heros-journey-spirited-away-1962758.html
http://sarapangadp.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/et-20-spirited-away-as-heros-journey-comparison/
Movies
History of Animation (USA)
Animation clip The Story of Film part 3
Clips and Shorts

The Iron Giant


Princess Mononoke
Persepolis
Waltz with Bashir
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Spirited Away

WESTERNS (westerns about westerns also ref. Fist Full of Dollars, Yojimbo)

Westerns segment - Martin Scorsese A Personal Journey through American Cinema


http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=pUcgI9jwhlA&list=PLVVPZXdMr_akgT2VjjomTHCVf0MY7Yr04

Norton Film Textbook Supplemental Video on Genre - Westerns


http://wwnorton.com/common/flvplayer/?
flvid=/college/movies3/genre_western_lam3.m4v&flvimg=/college/movies3/genre_western_lam3.jpg
&flvw=600&flvh=400&flvauto=false&flvskin=dark

American Cinema - Westerns


http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=208

College Class lectures: the Western - Prof. Slotkin @ Wesleyan


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5brbEYpru0&list=PL7EF9D4C091B04311

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film - 09 Out West http://www.youtube.com/watch?


v=8CDU148enA0
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Django
http://www.vulture.com/2012/12/a-guide-to-all-the-movie-and-tv-references-in-django-unchained.html

Blazing Saddles

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BlazingSaddles
http://mechanicalbrain.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/django-unchained-and-blazing-saddles/
http://www89.homepage.villanova.edu/elana.starr/pages/auteurist_comedy_of_mel_brooks.htm
Unforgiven

Fistful of Dollars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars

Yojimbo
youtube clips -
http://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=cinematography+yojimbo+fistful+full+of+dollars&oq=cinematography+yojimbo+fistful
+full+of+dollars&gs_l=youtube.12...1104552.1134255.0.1138234.48.39.0.6.6.0.232.2068.26j3j1.30.0..
.0.0...1ac.1.7SPO30zRnVw
http://www.imdb.com/reviews/205/20510.html
http://www.nwscc.edu/english/Film%20Class%20Files/Scars%20Western%20Essay,%20Film
%20Class.htm
http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/yojimbo-a-fistful-of-dollars-and-last-man-standing
http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1132291
http://akirakurosawa.info/2013/07/01/film-club-yojimbo-1961/
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/asian-studies/projects/kurosawa/films/Yojimbo.html
http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/yojimbo-all-things-dashiell-hammett
http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/cteq/gun/ this gun for hire
seven samurai http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/jfilm/sevensamurai.html
KUROSAWA INFLUENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1STFM39vJ4&list=PL68A192929439FD31
http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/yojimbo-a-fistful-of-dollars-and-last-man-standing
Compare and Contrast Fist Full of Dollars and Last Man Standing in terms of their main characters,
their narratives, and their cinematography. http://news.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-
lancashire/plain/A1161271
http://melodyayresgriffiths.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/a-fistful-of-dollars-for-the-last-man-standing-
yojimbo-and-the-postmodern-western/
Fist Full of Dollars
http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/yojimbo-a-fistful-of-dollars-and-last-man-standing
Reviews: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058461/externalreviews
fuzzy youtube - whole movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJICs-dONr4&feature=related
Other films and: http://www.jimloy.com/movie/fistfull.htm
Yojimbo and Fist Full of Dollars cinematography - youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=AE5R_W-PNSg

Sukiyaki Western Django


fistful of dollars, yojimbo etc http://michaelrunderwood.com/2009/03/02/review-sukiyaki-western-
django/
http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/esearch/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003843448
http://www.fistfulofpasta.com/index.php?go=reviews/sukiyakibj
http://antifilmschoolsite.wordpress.com/tag/yojimbo/

Stagecoach
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-stagecoach-1939
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1472-stagecoach-taking-the-stage
http://films.estefanfilms.com/stagecoach.htm
http://fullyreconditioned.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/notes-on-john-ford-1939-1941-stagecoach/
clint eastwood talks about Stagecoach
http://www.dga.org/Events/2011/06-june-2011/Clint-Eastwood-on-John-Fords-Stagecoach.aspx

Rango
http://www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/rango.asp
http://moviemorlocks.com/2011/03/28/rango-an-animated-feature-for-adults/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Rango?from=Main.Rango
http://www.examiner.com/review/rango-revels-classic-movie-references
http://books.google.com/books?id=JmUEFBxH26kC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&dq=rango+monument+valley&source=bl&ots=zMhZ-
3EPti&sig=ZTP7RgZ5yCcNFkD4yVju5aclEAM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dDrQUtl_zaGiBMTfgJAE&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=rango
%20monument%20valley&f=false

The Searchers
http://www.afi.com/10top10/moviedetail.aspx?id=53577&thumb=1
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/17/172235275/in-the-searchers-a-hunt-for-the-western-film

Early Film - origin of film language

Birth of Cinema 10 minutes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0jm6j3s_uE

A Concise History of the Origins of Cinema - 25 minutes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Sq_FNoMnY

Hand-Colored- tinted early films: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3g6LYs6V8M

History of pre-cinema projected visual images: Charles Dickens and the Magic Lantern - bfi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omuDMHj0TZY

History of silent cinema: Charles Dickens and Silent Cinema - bfi


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbhTmHq8Dw

Movies History - History channel Modern Marvels


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLYkOnYCd7E

GA Smith
The Sick Kitten (early (iest?) close-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T33lNsnVFbI
A Kiss in the Tunnel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU3P9iId5lI
As seen through a telescope (early(iest?) telescoped close-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8RvcJXohk

Early cinema Women writers and filmmakers:

Alice Guy-Blache
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqlD7RLoNAI - about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=G7cpV9L5d84&playnext=1&list=PLDC12BE2B81457DEA&feature=results_main - films

Lois Weber
Basics - Lois Weber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfgiUvBaosg - Suspense

Anita Loos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2jjTmRclFM
Deep Focus - cinematography- includes Yojimbo and Fist Full of Dollars and Singing in the Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=4Tt840nlog0&playnext=1&list=PL8E0E46E98E3A27C1&feature=results_main

Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Film episode 1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91G9aDyS_s&list=PL92390927D5D09648
http://flavorwire.com/257204/the-most-influential-sci-fi-films/view-all/
the city in cinema
film noir the city in cinema
Graduate course syllabus: Neon-Noir: Future-Noir Film & Constructs of the City

http://www.uta.edu/english/syllabi/files_spr10/Guertin5380.pdfmore
http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i9334.pdf
The City in Cinema
http://books.google.com/books?
id=pQB3MembWe8C&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=portrayal+of+the+city+in+cinema&source=bl&ots=Ag_u1iccKe&sig=PIInPFii7BZqe-dYPi-
ZvPeaVWI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=WSdkUvryHurAyAH8nIDgCQ&ved=0CG4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=portrayal%20of%20the%20city%20in
%20cinema&f=false
documentaries about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muFNT069Igw&list=PL33582DFF7568F4AC
http://www.slideshare.net/mickgoogan/04-baudrillard-the-matrix-and-blade-runner-simulation-and-
hyperreality

The Moon at One Meter and A Trip to the Moon


Watch them on Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XgYHjAoZMQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JDaOOw0MEE
https://archive.org/details/LeVoyageDansLaLune_218

2001 Space Odyssey


A lot on Youtube about Kubrick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hjbMRXg018
Documentary on 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpoPhQNrpjE
Documentary on the Legacy of 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW7-VnIqKhM
Ridley Scott on 2001
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/ridley-scott-science-fiction-is-dead.html
General
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/819-2001-a-space-odyssey
http://www.2001aspaceodyssey.org/articles/The%20Film%20Begins.asp
http://www.chrissheridan.com/kubrick/2001.html
http://www.collativelearning.com/2001%20chapter%208.html
http://www.kubrick2001.com/ cinematography
http://evanerichards.com/2010/851
http://robwheelerfilmblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwzAo9Xu4TI

The Matrix
3 - smiths and 3 "smiths" from history - triple portraits of charles 1 and cardinal richelieu (better smith
frame somewhere)
Charles 1
richelieu
3 smiths
South Park
http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70224258&trkid=3325854
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e08-ass-burgers
Sparknotes
http://www.sparknotes.com/film/matrix/section3.rhtml
http://www.sparknotes.com/film/matrix/themes.html
analysis video - also see part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuiUGGOuGQ0
Technical innovations
http://www.ricestandard.org/movies-that-changed-the-world-the-matrix/
Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix: The Dialectic of Myth-Making in Contemporary Cinema
http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/thematrix.htm
Hero's Journey - monomyth -campbell
http://www.uky.edu/~aubel2/eng104/myth/matrix.html
hero myth open framework
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AG4rlGkCRU
http://home.rmi.net/~seifert/id22.html
http://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/1507
Interpretation: myth narrative
https://webspace.utexas.edu/srs2396/images/WJC%20Stroud%20Matrix.pdf
Religious connections - google search
http://www.google.com/search?q=matrix+religious+connections&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-
8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&surl=1&safe=active
Hero's journey
Links to a lot:
http://www.mythologyteacher.com/The-Hero%27s-Journey.phpPsalm 137
http://www.bartleby.com/108/19/137.html
By the Rivers of Babylon - the melodiansPsalm 137 via Jamacian reggae
EXCEL spreadsheet - minutes noted - analysisTable
Essay
http://www.oaklandcc.edu/essay/Docs/essays_10/Justin%20McBride%20-%20Unedited%20Essay.pdf
Graduate course syllabus: Neon-Noir: Future-Noir Film & Constructs of the City
http://www.uta.edu/english/syllabi/files_spr10/Guertin5380.pdf
Yale Law School: Law in Science Fiction
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/sela/SELA11_Bullard_CV_Eng_20110325.pdf
Science Fiction film study guides
http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/350/guide.php

http://www.criterion.com/films/329-la-jetee
http://www.cosmoetica.com/B781-DES637.htmhttp://www.chrismarker.org/jean-louis-schefer-on-la-
jete/http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/marker/ Influence:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/0
9/30/magazine/la-jetee.html?_r=0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jet
%C3%A9e#Influence_and_legacyhttp://articles.latimes.com/2012/aug/11/entertainment/la-et-mn-ca-
chris-marker-20120812WATCH LA JETEEVimeohttp://vimeo.com/42460300 Hulu Plus (free trial -
make sure you cancel if you don't want to continue)http://www.hulu.com/watch/215917
Blade Runner
http://www.nebo-lit.com/film/Blade%20Runner/Blade%20Runner/Blade-Runner.html
http://www.scifimoviepage.com/julypick.html
http://bladerunner.wikia.com/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner

http://www.putlearningfirst.com/br/commentary.html
Blade Runner clips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5dA3DePirsE&playnext=1&list=PL9B2BC77AE5B223EF&feature=results_main
Cinematography

Cinematography
http://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar99/blade/pg1.htm
http://www.eoshd.com/content/6467/the-secrets-of-anamorphic-blade-runner
http://www.thefilmframes.com/bladerunner/
http://georgebeattiecine.blogspot.com/2013/02/jordan-scott-cronenweth-blade-runner.html
https://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar99/blade/index.htm

Production design
Sketch book - director, production designer...sketches 100 pages
http://issuu.com/futurenoir/docs/bladerunner_sketchbook
http://www.academia.edu/519631/Film_Architecture_Set_Designs_fromMetropolis_toBlade_Runner
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/nov/05/architecture-film-riba
Night Hawks - Hopper
http://asad123.com/2010/02/01/nighthawks/
http://www.empireonline.com/features/paintings-that-inspired-the-movies/p5
http://books.google.com/books?id=kSVFAAAAQBAJ&pg=RA2-PA1744&lpg=RA2-
PA1744&dq=edward+hopper+nighthawks+blade+runner&source=bl&ots=NfHwT9G3kz&sig=rHx0NI
nVVNlxOMRSfggOQnfcJpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=e6tdUr6xD4zyigK79YGIBQ&ved=0CGkQ6AEwCQ
#v=onepage&q=edward%20hopper%20nighthawks%20blade%20runner&f=false
Step pyramids
http://www.touropia.com/step-pyramids-of-the-world/
Ennis House - Frank Lloyd Wright
http://ennishouse.com/
Blade Runner - Philip Dick
http://www.phildick.com/Blade_Runner
http://www.concatenation.org/frev/bladerunner_do_androids_dream_of_electric.html
http://www.philipkdick.com/films_bladerunner.html
academic paper:
http://www.academia.edu/1193352/_Violat_ing_Your_Own_Identity_Animals_Humanity_and_the_hyp
er-
reality_of_Empathy_in_Philip_K._Dicks_Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep_and_Scotts_Blade
_Runner
academic essay 2
Cornell University exhibit
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/androids/exhibition/introduction/index.html
Yale
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/nationalcurriculum/units/2007/1/07.01.07.x.html

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:2WMWrx-
fRyYJ:www.joanfuste.com/mybladerunner/files/androids_and_bladerunner.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=b
l&srcid=ADGEESgkRXq69nsJiyCzI6metxnKURFedlJhyqXm4qIS_nM140pcMxgjmTVbPWBQF1R2
IA2xoe-CPYXy8xRKxowREsTZV6Tp5bCQ7uYd9tvBR6v6X7L-f1TPtB9SC-ri0Hyq0PpXV-
ut&sig=AHIEtbSHISxIFnXTrYXv1EtKYTvqQ4v_wg
Blake misquote: Fiery the angels fell...
http://www.anzasa.arts.usyd.edu.au/a.j.a.s/Articles/1_02/Gerblinger.pdf

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Phillip K. Dick


http://www.google.com/#q=compare+and+contrast+blade+runner+and+do+androids+dream+of+electri
c+sheep

Blade runner and Frankenstein


http://www.matrix.edu.au/frankenstein-bladerunner-comparative-analysis/
Metropolis
Links to a lot
http://metropolis1927.com/
http://www.uow.edu.au/~morgan/Metroc.htm
http://paws.wcu.edu/mulligan/www/metropolis.html
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2003/20030106/metropolis.shtml
http://www.moviediva.com/MD_root/reviewpages/MDMetropolis.htm
http://metropolisvixfx.blogspot.com/2007/10/cinematography.html
http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2010/04/05/metropolis-unbound/
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/25817|0/Metropolis.html

La Jetee

SCIENCE FICTION -NOIR DYSTOPIA


Links to a lot:
http://www.mythologyteacher.com/The-Hero%27s-Journey.php
Psalm 137
http://www.bartleby.com/108/19/137.html
By the Rivers of Babylon - the melodians
Psalm 137 via Jamacian reggae
Essay
http://www.oaklandcc.edu/essay/Docs/essays_10/Justin%20McBride%20-%20Unedited%20Essay.pdf
Graduate course syllabus: Neon-Noir: Future-Noir Film & Constructs of the City
http://www.uta.edu/english/syllabi/files_spr10/Guertin5380.pdf
Metropolis Influence on the Matrix
http://germanexpressionism12.blogspot.com/2012/03/synopsis-of-matrix-reloaded.html
Yale Law School: Law in Science Fiction
http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/sela/SELA11_Bullard_CV_Eng_20110325.pdf
Science Fiction film study guides
http://www.users.muohio.edu/erlichrd/350/guide.php
Cinematography
http://www.theasc.com/magazine/mar99/blade/pg1.htm
http://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/February2011/DVDPlayback/page2.php
http://cinemaarts.blogspot.com/2009/10/metropolis-cinematography.html
http://ufilmanalysisrobinson.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/cinematography-and-editing-in-metropolis/
http://pofpa.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/metropolis_further_study3.pdf
Plot
http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/sf/metropolis.html
German Expressionism -
http://mubi.com/lists/german-expressionism-the-world-of-light-and-shadow
Metropolis, Blade Runner...
http://www.screened.com/german-expressionism/27-99/
Analysis and influence
http://www.filmsite.org/metr.html
http://paws.wcu.edu/mulligan/www/metropolis.html
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=6204

H.G. Wells reviews the movie 1927 - he blasts it


http://erkelzaar.tsudao.com/reviews/H.G.Wells_on_Metropolis%201927.htm

Metropolis - Blade Runner - Google seach


https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&hs=Gf1&rls=org.mozilla
%3Aen-US
%3Aofficial&q=metropolis+blade+runner+influence&oq=metropolis+blade+&gs_l=serp.1.3.0l2j0i30l
3j0i5i30j0i8i30l4.271546.274015.0.281890.6.6.0.0.0.0.132.543.3j3.6.0.les
%3B..0.0...1c.1.4.serp.mVvSIA_CAPw

Metropolis - Blade Runner - Brazil


http://moviesnerdinessandmore.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/stylistic-and-thematic-elements-of-tech-
noir/
mario savio
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/saviotranscript.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcx9BJRadfw
Blade Runner - Brazil: dystopia
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/WarnerTeach/E192/bladerunner/Dystopia.Blade.Runner.Hoffpauir.htm

Les quatre cents coups

(french slang: "raise hell," "to be up to all sorts of mischief," or "to live without abiding by laws and
rules.")beach endinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbcyPBW0hWkcarnival - zoetrope
ridehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0RFWOfZtq4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3yarT_h2ws
@ the puppet show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP2eWHdZLDE
reviews:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/externalreviews
http://www.kleph.com/blog.php?b=1&e=1146&pg=The+400+Blows
http://www.contactmusic.com/movie-review/the400blows
http://www2.metrotimes.com/screens/review.asp?rid=25035
http://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/400-blows.shtml
Partial Analysis:
http://books.google.com/books?
id=DhxIQrP_ifcC&pg=PT151&lpg=PT151&dq=400+blows+narrative+structure&source=bl&ots=J9lP
k7LZtz&sig=75ADhpp8tYcL52Kjlpbi0HRtFpQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=pXFfUMXEKYfxiwLb_oDABQ&
ved=0CCAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=400%20blows%20narrative%20structure&f=false
criterion essay
http://www.criterionconfessions.com/2012/07/the-400-blows-adventures-of-antoine.html
Analysis:
http://browland.hubpages.com/hub/The-400-Blows-Antoine-Doinels-Place-in-the-French-New-Wave
http://www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/400blows.asp
with reference to
The Bicycle Thiefhttp://screeninsight.blogspot.com/2012/03/400-blows-francois-truffaut-1959.html
Cinematic Techniques in the Film The 400 Blows
http://www.echeat.com/free-essay/Cinematic-Techniques-in-the-Film-The-400-Blows-26605.aspx

The 400 Blows


discussion of the final shot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY9dD5n1hrA

The Fall - Tarsem (India)


trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO0LYcCoeJY
interview with director, tarsem singh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO0LYcCoeJY
tarsem singh talks about The Fall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWh5YZPYGGE
youtube search
http://www.youtube.com/results?
search_query=The+Fall+tarsem&oq=The+Fall+tarsem&gs_l=youtube.3..0l5.146827.154709.0.155380
.15.10.0.5.5.0.71.593.10.10.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.7Hjn6LvzjU8
reviews
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/PEOPLE/868926055
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/movies/11kehr.html?_r=0

http://www.austinchronicle.com/calendar/film/2008-05-30/628978/
http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/interview.asp?IID=837
http://rmrphoto.blogspot.com/2009/12/film-review-fall-by-tarsem-singh.html
blog post
http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/the-many-colors-of-tarsem-singhs-the-fall/
http://collider.com/entertainment/interviews/article.asp/aid/7830/tcid/1

http://www.indiewire.com/article/review_imagine_that_tarsem_singhs_the_fall

The Spirit of the Beehive - Spain


Reviews and articles:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040/externalreviews
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/447-the-spirit-of-the-beehive-spanish-lessons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/1999/sep/16/derekmalcolmscenturyoffilm/print
http://www.cosmoetica.com/B1248-DES876.htm
http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/RLA-Archive/1997/Spanish-html/Willem,LindaM.htm
http://filmexperience.blogspot.com/2010/12/distant-relatives-spirit-of-beehive-and.html [with Pan's
Labyrinth]
pan's labyrinth and the spirit of the beehive: http://www.filmquarterly.org/2007/06/pans-labyrinth/
Detail and interpretation
Frankenstein - little girl and the monster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5FtI472Q6I
Interviews and discussions - from dvd supplements
http://thomas-hersey.wiki.uml.edu/The+Spirit+of+the+Beehive+Materials
paintings
zurbaran
http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=539&q=dead+christ+mantegna&oq=christ
+mant&gs_l=img.1.1.0i5l2j0i24l2.2219.6794.0.10384.11.9.0.2.2.0.70.568.9.9.0....0...1ac.1.27.img..0.1
1.593.5AZINkDfr34&surl=1&safe=active#hl=en&q=zurbaran+paintings&safe=active&tbm=isch
vermeer
http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=539&q=dead+christ+mantegna&oq=christ+mant&gs_l=img.1.1.0i5l2j0i24l2.2219.6794.0.103
84.11.9.0.2.2.0.70.568.9.9.0....0...1ac.1.27.img..0.11.593.5AZINkDfr34&surl=1&safe=active#hl=en&q=vermeer+paintings&safe=active&tbm=isch
velazquez paintings
http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=539&q=dead+christ+mantegna&oq=christ
+mant&gs_l=img.1.1.0i5l2j0i24l2.2219.6794.0.10384.11.9.0.2.2.0.70.568.9.9.0....0...1ac.1.27.img..0.1
1.593.5AZINkDfr34&surl=1&safe=active#hl=en&q=velazquez+paintings&safe=active&surl=1&tbm=
isch
goya (re: pan's labyrinth)
http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=539&q=dead+christ+mantegna&oq=christ+mant&gs_l=img.1.1.0i5l2j0i24l2.2219.6794.0.103
84.11.9.0.2.2.0.70.568.9.9.0....0...1ac.1.27.img..0.11.593.5AZINkDfr34&surl=1&safe=active#hl=en&q=goya+paintings&safe=active&tbm=isch

Focus: Compare and contrast the heroine-journeys and the myth/dream worlds and their relation to the
real-worlds in Pan's Labyrinth and The Wizard of Oz.

The Wizard of OZ
cinematography
http://evanerichards.com/2011/1243
http://tufilmanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/09/salman-rushdies-wizard-of-oz.html

Hero(ine) Journey - Campbellesque interpretation


http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/mcunningham/archetypes.pdf
http://www.slideserve.com/jaden/the-monomyth
http://www.gradesaver.com/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/study-guide/major-themes/
http://adulted.about.com/od/howtos/a/archetypes.htm
www.mythologyteacher.com/documents/TheHeroJourney.pdf
http://hlugg.edublogs.org/2011/11/08/heros-journey-the-wizard-of-oz/
Hero Journey pdf
Female vs Male Hero Journey - The Wizard of Oz and Star Wars
http://virtual.clemson.edu/groups/dial/oz/femoztax.html

Pan's Labyrinth
Overview from Film Education: http://www.filmeducation.org/pdf/film/PansLabyrinth.pdf
Reviews: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/externalreviews
Cinematography: http://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/January2007/PansLabyrinth/page1.php

http://www.moviemaker.com/cinematography/article/guillermo_navarros_filmmaking_fairytale_2872/

Articles/essays:
Masters Thesis: Masters thesis - intertextual interpretation
http://widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/11/6
http://brianair.wordpress.com/film-analysis/pans-labyrinth/
http://www.wired.com/table_of_malcontents/2007/02/pans_labyrinth_/
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/martinezpaper.pdf
Pan's Labyrinth related Youtube
Special Effects
High School Student Video Essay: Symbolism [you, yes you, you can do one of these on a movie we're
watching or one of your choice (and approved).
Acclaimed Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro - Talks about Directing and Alfred Hitchcock
Guillermo Navarro and David Crone - Vancouver Film School (VFS) discussion
Fear in Pan's Labyrinth...

More
http://www.slideshare.net/leannacatherina/pans-labyrinth-study-pack
http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewHartman/looking-at-mise-enscne-in-pans-labyrinth2-composition
http://www.slideshare.net/watsont/pans-labyrinth-film

Cinema Paradiso
reviews: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095765/externalreviews
scene analysis: http://www.coloradofilmschool.net/Analyses/Cinema_Paradiso.pdf
article (comparison with other films - note usage error in title): CINEMA ON CINEMA : The Kinship
between Cinema Paradiso and Zıkkımın Kökü, Karpuz Kabuğundan Gemiler Yapmak, Sinema Bir
Mucize
analysis: http://studiesincinema.blogspot.com/2010/07/cinema-paradiso.html
analysis/review: http://hechoayer.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/the-paradise-of-cinema-experiencing-
cinema-paradiso/
screenplay in translation: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Cinema-Paradiso.html
Narrative Structure - Cinema Paradiso - extended college essay
Link to Extended Essay (college - uk) Narrative Structure - Cinema Paradiso
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/CinePara.html
Narrative Structure
http://studiesincinema.blogspot.com/2010/07/cinema-paradiso.html
Detailed Recounting of the film
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~ryahnke/filmteach/My-Archive-of-Film-Notes/Cinema-Paradiso-VIEW.htm

Hero's Journey - Compare Star Wars


http://cla.calpoly.edu/legacies/rsimon/rsimonsite/Hum410/CinemaParaStarwars.htm

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