Film Criticism Semester 1 Final Study Guide

Red Balloon

• Director

• Theory

• Director: Lamorisse

• Theory: Structuralism

2001: The Space Odyssey

• Director

• Theory

• Director: Kubrick

• Theory: Structuralism

No Country for Old Men

• Director

• Theory

• Directors: Coen (The Coen Brothers)

• Theory: Structuralism

Dark Passage

• Director

• Theory

Director: Daves

Theory: Structuralism

Rashomon

• Director

• Theory

Director: Kurosawa

Theory: Structuralism

UP (“Married Life” Montage)

• Director

• Theory

Director: Docter

Theory: Structuralism

Battleship Potemkin (‘Odessa Steps” montage)

• Director

• Theory

Director: Eisenstein

Theory: Structuralism

The Last Emperor

• Director

• Theory

Director: Bertolucci

Theory: Formalism

The Fall

• Director

• Theory

Director: Singh

Theory: Formalism

Il Posto

• Director

• Theory

Director: Olmi

Theory: Realism in Cinema

La Strada

• Director

• Theory

Director: Fellini

Theory: Realism in Cinema

The Conversation

• Director

• Theory

Director: Coppola

Theory: Realism in Cinema

Dog Day Afternoon

• Director

• Theory

Director: Lumet

Theory: Realism in Cinema

Dr. Zhivago

• Director

• Theories (2)

Director: Lean

Theory: Studio Design / Auteur Theory

Strangers on a Train

• Director

• Theory

Director: Hitchcock

Theory: Auteur Theory

Badlands

• Director

• Theory

Director: Malick

Theory: Auteur Theory

Battle of Algiers

• Director

• Theory

Director: Pontecorvo

Theory: Ideology

The Man Who Wasn’t There

• Director

• Theory

Directors: Coen (Coen Brothers)

Theory: Ideology

The Best Years of Our Lives

• Director

• Theory

Director: Wyler

Theory: Ideology

Au Revoir Les Enfants

• Director

• Theory

Director: Malle

Theory: Ideology

The Great Dictator

• Director

• Theory

Director: Chaplin

Theory: Ideology

There will be Blood

• Director

• Theory

Director: Anderson

Theory: Ideology

BlacKkKlansman

• Director

• Theory

Director: Lee

Theory: Ideology

The Coen Brothers directed ______&_______

• No Country for Old Men

• The Man Who Wasn’t There

These 7 films are all Structuralism theories

1. Red Balloon

2. 2001 Space Odyssey

3. No Country For Old Men

4. Dark Passage

5. Rashomon

6. UP (Married life montage)

7. Battleship Potemkin

These 2 films are Formalism theories

1. The Last Emperor

2. The Fall

These 4 films are Realism in Cinema

1. Il Posto

2. La Strada

3. The Conversation

4. Dog Day Afternoon

These 3 Films are on Auteur Theory

1. Dr. Zhivago

2. Strangers on a Train

3. Badlands

These 7 films are Ideology

1. Battle of Algiers

2. The Man Who Wasn’t There

3. The Best Years of Our Lives

4. Au Revior Les Enfantes

5. The Great Dictator

6. There will be Blood

7. BlacKkKlansman

Structuralism:

Ideology:

• How meaning is built through film structure

• What societal meaning the film supports/challenges

If a film:

Shows institutions as broken →______

Shows institutions as fixable→_______

Defends institutions→______

• Left leaning

• Center

• Right