Composition In Storytelling

Overview of Notable Films

Recent Cinematic Works

  • The Master (2012)

  • American Beauty (1999)

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

  • The Tree of Life (2011)

  • Melancholia (2011)

  • Ida (2013)

  • Gravity (2013)

  • Only God Forgives (2013)

  • Antichrist (2009)

  • Fargo (1996)

Classic and Influential Cinema

  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

  • 12 Years a Slave (2013)

  • Seven Samurai (1957)

  • Fight Club (1999)

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

  • Raging Bull (1980)

  • Barry Lyndon (1975)

  • The Great Beauty (2012)

  • Black Swan (2010)

  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

Pioneering and Experimental Films

  • Solaris (1972)

  • Sicario (2015)

  • There Will Be Blood (2007)

  • The Exorcist (1973)

  • Star Wars (1977)

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

  • Se7en (1995)

  • Battleship Potemkin (1925)

  • Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

Film Theories and Movements

  • Kuleshov Effect Test

  • Triumph of the Will (1935)

  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

  • A Clockwork Orange (1971)

  • No Country for Old Men (2007)

Key Contributions to Cinematic Art

  • Inception (2010)

  • Children of Men (2006)

  • Persona (1966)

  • The Godfather (1972)

  • Citizen Kane (1941)

Noteworthy Filmmakers and Performances

  • Contributions by directors and actors in their respective eras have helped shape film history.

  • Contemporary movies often reference or build upon the narrative and visual styles established in classic films.