Hi there. Remember me, your old pal the cinetrix? Well, I'm still clambering through a single browser window at a time, which makes it difficult to gather up and then strew helpful bits of information, hoping the little seedlings will take root. You know, like the guy in that Millet painting?
Anyway, I'd like to direct you to the beautifully designed, if inexpertly edited [my rates are reasonable], Yale Film Studies site. So much to see and do! So many terms defined, with little film clips to accompany them. Really, almost unimpeachable. Except...well, except they couldn't shift themselves to find even one film directed by a woman to illustrate some of the concepts? Not one?
Besieged (L'Assedio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Italy, 1998)
Central Station (Central do Brasil, Walter Salles, Brazil, 1998)
Cries and Whispers (Viskingar Och Rop, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1972)
Dancer in the Dark (Denmark, Lars Von Trier, 2000)
Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, USA, 1997)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, USA, 1999)
Fists of Fury (Tang Shan Da Xiong, Wei Lo, Hong Kong, 1971)
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, USA, 1973)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo, Sergio Leone, Italy, 1966)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee, USA, 1997)
Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, China, 1990)
Life on Earth (La Vie sur Terre, Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania, 1998)
The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, USA, 1942)
Man with the Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom, Dziga Vertov, USSR, 1929)
Mission: Impossible 2 (John Woo, USA, 2000)
Nashville (Robert Altman, USA, 1975)
Neighbors (Buster Keaton, USA, 1920)
No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kui nashi, Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1946)
October (Oktyabr, Sergei Eisenstein, USSR, 1927)
Peking Opera Blues (Do Ma Daan, Tsui Hark, Hong Kong, 1986)
The Player (Robert Altman, USA, 1992)
Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954)
The Stendhal Syndrome (La Sindrome di Stendhal, Dario Argento, Italy, 1996)Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e Guilass, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran, 1997)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, USA, 1958)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, USA, 2000)
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios, Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 1988)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, USA, 1956)
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, Taiwan, 2000)
Guess not. C'mon, Elis. Try a little harder. Who do you think was working the Steenbeck?
