1927 Napoleon
        Snow
        Simon Feldman
            Ride
            Wave
        Polyvision
            Triptych

Carl Theodor Dreyer
    1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc
         Hermann Warm

Jean Renoir
    1937 Grand Illusion
    1939 The Rules of the Game



Japanese Cinema

Unique amalgam of Japanese theatrical traditions and cinema

Lack of a popular prose tradition led to the dominance of Theatre as the main influence on cinema
    Out of the Kabuki Theatre tradition came the “benshi”

Brand new ball game
    No intertitles
    No Griffithe paradigm

Strikes
    1922 Oyama (female impersonators)
    1932 Benshi and Musicians

Repressive regimes
    Needed to support War Effort
    American Occupation Forces

Akira Kurosawa

    1950 Rashomon
    1954 Seven Samurai
    1960 The Magnificent Seven
        John Sturges

        Opening Gambit

        Defining Character

        Sword Play

        Knife Play

    1958 Hidden Fortress
        1977 Star Wars
            George Lucas

    1961 Yojimbo

        Which Way

        Set the Stage

    1992 Mick Jackson
        Critical Analysis

    1957 Throne of Blood
        MacBeth

    1985 Ran
        Kind Lear

    1990 Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

    6 September 1998

Jasujiro Ozu
    12 December 1903
    “The most Japanese of Japanese film directors”
    Made Propaganda films in Singapore during the war
        Fantasia “These guys look like trouble”

    1953 Tokyo Monogatari (Tokyo Story)

    1959 Ohayo (Good Morning)

    “Unreasonable Choices”
        180 degree rule
        Dog, child, god or person?
        Humor