ARTHIST 3XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Les Mistons, French New Wave, Hiroshima Mon Amour
14 Mar 2017
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Graduate: french still has influence, goddard influence on tarantino. Government would cover of cost of short films, pre 1959. Allowed important filmmakers of the new wave to make their first film: 4) government established cnc, cinematheque francaise, new way of funding money not on basis of directors track record. Based on quality of scripts: 5) independent directors, melville, tati, jean cocteau, bresson. Also includes jean renoir: melville bob the flambeur (bob, the gambler) Anticipates much of what the new wave becomes. Makes a small cameo in breathless: 6) documentary movement in france after the war, new wave directors engaged with the independent nature, weren"t attracted by the realism or truthfulness, unlike. New wave as a movement: conscious use of film for a specific purpose, e. g. Use camera to write beliefs: was not political. Sprang from the belief written up by a body of film critics. Critics that became the central filmmakers of this movement.
