Fresh, Sophisticated, Classic

Herman J. Mankiewicz
John Houseman
Gregg Toland

"Made Love" 1935

Jules Brulatori
Marion Davies

Samuel Ensull
Henry Luce
Harold McCormick

How Green Was My Valley
Rebecca
Dead End
The Long Voyage Home
Stagecoach
His Girl Friday
The Power and the Glory
A Man to Remember

subjective camera
chiaroscuro
"lightning-mix"
non-linear storytelling
transitory dissolves
curtain wipes

metaphor: jigsaw puzzle

John Cassavetes's Shadows Part I

[Cassavetes] worked in the dark when he made every one of his movies. That way of functioning goes against the grain of most of the rest of our culture. We're obsessed with knowingness. Our goal is to be "smart."...Cassavetes made movies very differently. He used filmmaking not to make points he had already decided on, but to explore aspects of his experience he didn't understand. In this respect, he functioned like a documentary filmmaker. Filmmaking was asking questions you really didn't know the answers to.

Tangential Interactions

solar winds with the earth's magnetic field that traps charged particles

Terry Gilliam Interview

Jack Matthews
English Hillman Minx
Harvey Kurtzman
Chris Mark
Gustave Doré
Charles McKeown
Tobias Smollett

List o' Movies

1. Sancho the Bailiff
2. Playtime > Jacques Tati
3. The Complete "Mr. Arkadin" > Orson Welles
4. Seven Samurai
5. Pickup on South Street > Sam Fuller
6. The Lady Eve > Preston Sturges
7. Tokyo Story
8. I Know Where I'm Going
9. Band of Outsiders > Jean Luc Godard
10. Notorious > Alfred Hitchcock