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What makes a film good film? Or bad? Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy
What Is a Good DQ? A question about sone formal aspect of the film.
Here is an excellent and concise audiocommentary over a few moments on lighting in a film. John Bailey Breaks Down a Tour de Force of Gothic Lighting
Part One:
When King Charles performed the best Hamlet | Gregory Doran Remembers... Shakespeare Live!
Olivier's Hamlet film (1948): "To Be Or Not To Be" soliloquy
The Correct Way to deliver Hamlet's line "To Be or Not to Be'
Last Action Hero (dir. John McTiernan, 1995) Laurence Olivier as Hamlet delays the murder his uncle, KingClaudius; dissolves into a student's daydream of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hamlet "taking out the trash" in Hamlet Scene (hughly abbreviated, rewrite of the play)
The Last Action Hero (dir. John McTiernan, 1995)
Hamlet (1990) Official Trailer - Mel Gibson, Glenn Close Movie HD
Clueless (Dir. Amy Heckerling, 1996)- Mel Gibson as Hamlet scene
Hamlet - Ian McKellen - Feature Film - 2024 - Trailer - 4K
First Day of Class
Part Two:
Compare the St. Crispin's Day Speech scene in Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944) to Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989).
The printed speech in the play.
P.S. The Afterlife of Shakespeare in Cinema
Henry V (1944) Shot of arrows flying in the battle of Agincourt
Recycled in
28 YEARS LATER (2025) Official Trailer
The Marvel Symphonic Universe EVERY FILM A PAINTING
Integrated title sequence Deadpool
The Revenant | Official Trailer
Vertigo Official Trailer #1 - (1958) HD
“Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design”
The Man Who Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star
Inside Out US Teaser Trailer - YouTube (sizzle reel of "previously on"s)
(3/3) St. Crispin's Day Speech (1989) HD
Laurence Olivier - St Crispin's Day Speech - Henry V (1944)
St Crispin's Day Speech, Mark Rylance at the Globe Henry V
(2/3) Once More Unto the Breach (1989) HD Henry V
(3/3) St. Crispin's Day Speech (1989) HD
Laurence Olivier - St Crispin's Day Speech - Henry V (1944)
HENRY V - Laurence Olivier - 1944 - Remastered - 4K
St Crispin's Day Speech, Mark Rylance at the Globe Henry V
(2/3) Once More Unto the Breach (1989) HD Henry V
(3/3) St. Crispin's Day Speech (1989) HD
Laurence Olivier - St Crispin's Day Speech - Henry V (1944)
HENRY V - Laurence Olivier - 1944 - Remastered - 4K
St Crispin's Day Speech, Mark Rylance at the Globe Henry V
(2/3) Once More Unto the Breach (1989) HD
Henry V (3/3) St. Crispin's Day Speech (1989)
Second day of class Resources, January 15
Recommended Viewing and Reading:
THE GREEN INFERNO - Audience Reaction Trailer (Hat tip to Devoun Cetoute)
King Lear - Official Trailer | Prime Video
TCM includes all original trailers for films they stream, here for War of the Worlds (1953) and here for The Flame Within (Edmund Goulding, 1935)
Montage trailer of Kurosawa's films 0:08 / 1:45
New trailer for Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon - back in cinemas from 6 January 2023 | BFI
RAN - 35 Scenes in 35 Seconds - Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Kurosawa: A Complete Film Season trailer | BFI
5. Macbeth | Full Movie | Drama | William Shakespeare (2018) Stars: Wunmi Mosaku, Al Weaver, Mark Rowley
Voice-over narration focused on the actors and on directors. The stars may be mentioned first or last. Sometimes the trailer tells the story, with . . . and starring . . . and
"From the director who brought you . . ."
SHAKESPEARE ON FILM - Trailers
Prospero's Books - John Gielgud - Mark Rylance - Michael Clark - Isabelle Pasco - 1991 Trailer - 4K
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2739-martin-scorsese-on-the-richard-iii-restoration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ViF0GBt6fQ&t=2s
https://www.arte.tv/digitalproductions/en/notes-on-blindness/
Close Reading as Analysis / Close Reading Archive / On Close Reading
Spring 2023 LIT 4930: From Close Reading to Closed Reading
TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THE BEST WEBSITE FOR FILM ANALYSIS IS
https://filmanalysis.yale.edu/
These websites can also be useful;
Film Studies: Film Terminology & Analysis
Columbia film glossary with clips
Columbia film glossary of terms
Different cuts and different versions of the same film under the same title, collected together in sets.
The Tree of Life (extended) The Tree of Life (theatrical) Creating a trailer for a film without one.
How Does an Editor Think and Feel?
Every Frame a Painting (editing has a rhythm 51:50 and is like dance 8:13)
Orson Welles on Editing (editing is like music, it has a rhythm)
Gordon Willis, ASC on THE PARALLAX VIEW (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
Jim Jarmusch in Conversation with Jonathan Ames
'The film industry is gone. It sucks’: Jim Jarmusch on swapping directing for drone rock
The Guardian, April 22, 2023
Two Discussion Questions and three shots with three film analysis terms you think would have to be in a different film trailer (but are not in the existing trailer). To be clear, choose three shots that are in the film that you think should be in the trailer that was released. But do not choose any of the shots in the trailer. In class, we can discuss whether you think the trailer is good or not and why.TRAILER: Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski, 1971)
For comparative purposes you may wish to watch this trailer Macbeth Official US Release Trailer (2015) - Michael Fassbender War Drama HD and see what the two trailers share:
Post Your DQs etc. on this Google doc and on Canvas.
For Class Discussion: (You may skip it.)
Composing as they viewed each scene, Third Ear Band worked an exhaustive twelve hours a day for six weeks on the soundtrack at AIR Studios. Despite their brevity, each resultant piece was comprehensive, holding the fullness of emotional depth and Third Ear Band’s usual attentiveness to detail and skilled clarity of performance.
(RE)EDITING
Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
The Long Take: Gun Crazy
The Frenzied Film Noir World of GUN CRAZY
Trailer Assignment: To make a trailer, you will need quick time, some kind image capture, and powerpoint.
Pick a style used for trailers and teasers from a particular decade.
DIRECTIONS
Download a high quality (1080) version of the complete film.
Scroll left and right at will and capture images of the parts you will use. Put them in the order you want them be.
These captures will be the equivalent of story boards.
Watch, if you wish, these:
SYLVAIN DESPRETZ, and the GLADIATOR storyboard (english version)
Gladiator - Behind the Scenes: drawing a storyboard frame.
The second video is much longer than the first, but all the more informative.
DIRECTIONS, CONTINUE:
Open the file you downloaded in quick time player. It is free. Go to "edit" and open the drop down menu. Scroll down to trim and click. At the bottom of the open file, you will now see the entire file horzontally in a yellow frame. Drag the left and right frames to the part of the film you want to use. Then click on "trim" (in blue) on the right. Then go back to edit and scroll down to save. Give a title for this clip.
Assemble the clips in the order you want. You will probably have to adjust the length of the clips you have chosen. Open the first file and then drag and drop the rest. Then save the assembled file and give it a title.
Go back to edit and click on remove audio.
Create an audio file. Find the music you want to use online.
Download it in quicktime.
Open the file and go to edit. Scoll down to export and choose audio only. Save. You have your aduio file.
Insert your audio file into your trailer file.
Save the file with your audio. There's your complete trailer.
Since there will be no voice, you'll have to figure out how to use title cards and what to write on them.
Don LaFontaine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QPMvj_xejg
In 500-700 words, explain what you did in your trailer and why. Describe what you have done.
Example:
Trailer of War of the Worlds Description: Male voice-over narration; builds from a shot of the earth from outer space to one long, reverse establishing shot with people looking at the explosions in the night sky, just as we are, then cranes up, then explosion of the people and of the entire screen. Fade to black. We get Spielberg's name, then the title in rotating silver letters. "Of the" are the last shots, followed by more titles, film. (Now explain why you did what you did.)
Send your trailer and word doc to me.
REQUIRED VIEWING: Either Titus or West Side Story
West Side Story or West Side Story
1. Hamlet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli, 1990)
2. Trailer
Hamlet (1990) Official Trailer - Mel Gibson, Glenn Close Movie HD
RECOMMENDED:
Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana
1. Hamlet (dir. Micheal Almereyda, 2000)
2. Trailer
Hamlet "2000" - Ethan Hawke - Bill Murray - Liev Schreiber - Julia Stiles - 2000 - Trailer - 4K
REQUIRED VIEWING:
Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zefferlli, 1967)
Romeo and Juliet - Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey - 1968 - Zeffirelli - Original Trailer - 4K
At 2:32, the shots taken from the end of film, and the rest of the trailer is made up of blurbs.
REQUIRED VIEWING:
https://richardburtphd.com/criterionthreereasonstobeornottobe.html
How Modern Audiences Are Failing Cinema "Cinema as Self-Righteous Moralism" 11:49-42:10
"If It Makes You Cry, It Must Be Good"
Caitlin Quinlan, The Year in Review, 06 December 2023 artreview.com
so that’s why they cut all her scenes from the movie (Film exists as 1 the screenplay; 2 the shoot, director in charge; 3 the rushes 4 the cut 5 the edit. 6 the re-edit--if needed or desired. So theatrical versions of the same film are shorter than the director's cut digital versions)
Ruining the editing of Gun Crazy (1950)
Shakespeare Network Online Critical Edition
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SCREEN ADAPTATIONS
From Orson Welles to Michael Fassbender: A Study of Macbeth's Soliloquy
https://x.com/Ebruyldrm_88/status/1793425122227114484
https://x.com/Ebruyldrm_88/status/1793686300907954554
https://www.instagram.com/ebruyldrm_88
The Shakespeare Network
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Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) plays the title role in Shakespeare’s thrilling study of nationalism, war and the psychology of power. -- Fresh to the throne, King Henry V launches England into a bloody war with France. When his campaign encounters resistance, this inexperienced new ruler must prove he is fit to guide a country into war ...
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Young Drunk Becomes King And Immediately Unleashes a War
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996) Official Trailer - Ben Kingsley, Helena Bonham Carter Movie HD
What to cut, what to keep for production? What must the audience know?
Prologue William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrman, 1996)
Quasi-montage in
Lost Highway (dir. David Lynch, 199?) "This Magic Moment" (Lou Reed)
Mean Girls - Trailer
Barry Lyndon trailer
The Oscar for Best Film Title Sequence Goes to ...
THE GREEN INERNO - Audience Reaction Trailer (Hat tip to Devoun Cetoute)
Sometimes Titles Are the Whole Story
Making an Art Out of Credit Rolls
Required Viewing (No DQs): Try guessing which shots from the film are in the trailer. Which ones stand out to you, especially those that stand alone, apart from the plot. Art film genre film shots.
You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynn Ramsay, 2018) trailer
Crank end title sequence (action films often do interesting things with subtitles for foreign languages or for a deaf mute character; Walkabout end title sequence)
Gimmick: sequels inserted into the end title sequences of Marvel films. For the Procrustean template, see Venom (2018) and Captain Marvel (2019)
End Title Sequence - Captain America
Very professional looking re-edits of film sequences on Twitter: are they film criticism? Fan trailers? Fan films?
Second Paper Due March 16 by 11:59
Dissect your trailer (the one you analyzed for your first paper) If you know how to use microsoft excel, you could create a graph like the one from Silver Linings Playbook below. Or you could go back to the trailer assignment we turned in and give timestamps for where the shots in the trailer occur in the film. Like this.
Integrated title sequence Deadpool
The Revenant | Official Trailer
Vertigo Official Trailer #1 - (1958) HD
“Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design”
The Man Who Made the Title Sequence Into a Film Star
Inside Out US Teaser Trailer - YouTube (sizzle reel of "previously on"s)
THE NUN - Official Teaser Trailer [HD] - YouTube
The First Purge – Official Trailer [HD] - YouTube
La La Land (2016 Movie) Official Teaser Trailer – 'Audition (The Fools ...
La La Land Official Teaser Trailer #1 (2016) Emma Stone, Ryan ...
Pablo Ferro, Legendary Title Designer for ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ Dies at 83
Title sequence from Goldfinger (1964), designed by Robert Brownjohn
James Bond: 50 Years of Main Title Design
James Bond Opening Title Sequences
Ludovico Einaudi, "Experience"
The Wizard of Oz "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
Repetition, AND the LIMITS of RESEMBLANCE,
Trump Made Kim a Movie Trailer. We Made It Better.
90s movie trailers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/movies/trailers-best-worst.html
Different cuts and different versions of the same film under the same title, collected together in sets.
The Tree of Life (extended) The Tree of Life (theatrical) Creating a trailer for a film without one.
The Battle for the Best Movie Trailer Since 1990
“To Reconcile Book and Title, and Make ‘em Kin to One Another”: The Evolution of the Title’s Contractual Functions
Blockers (2018) and the Sophisticated Vulgarity of Emojis. (See my Spring 2019 course on film trailers.)
Blockers, first ever partial film title with a (deniable) visual pun and sound effect, spelling out the true title, namely, Cock Blockers? (Cock-a-doodle-do? No, it's just a rooster, not a cock crowing.) Alternate title? Block Cock. Actually, the film seems to be about parental vagina blockers. Like parents designed elaborate chastity belts for their daughters to wear to the prom. The inversion of gender roles plays out when partying jocks make the two fathers chug beer up their asses in exchange for help blocking their daughters. The cut down title a metaphor for their symbolic castration? Moms cock block too, btw. The parents might want to watch Carrie to understand menstruation and the hymen. Another alternate title? Block the Cock. (It's just about the rooster. He is too loud.) Note the recurrent line "I'm in," as if taken from a heist or spy film (involving hacking--cracking the code-- as well as cracking the safe combination).
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Required Viewing (No DQs):
The Music That Casts The Spells Of 'Vertigo'
Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo (Love Scene)
By the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
'Phase IV', Saul Bass' Forgotten Cult Classic, Gets a Second Chance
Live GRADING in 4314 Turlington
War of the Worlds
Genre: Action/Drama/Science-Fiction
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells (Novel)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Trailer of War of the Worlds Description: Male voice-over narration; builds to one long, reverse establishing shot with people looking at the explosions in the night sky, just as we are, then cranes up, then explosion of the people and of the entire screen. Fade to black. We get Spielberg's name in silver letters, then the title in rotating silver letters. "Of the" are the last shots, followed by more titles, film director, star, etc.
Deregulated Capitalism looks like this: Risky Business (1983) Opening titles with trains and part of the R-rated borderline porn sex on a train scene. The entire sex scene with anonymously added voice-over (the voice-over is not in the film).
Gemma Solana, Uncredited: Graphic Design & Opening Titles in Movies
Detour (1945) opening title sequence
Detour - 4k Restoration Trailer (1945)
Recommended:
Sound Mixing and Sound Editing Trailers lifting soundtracks from other films.
Silent Film Soundtracks and Other Resources
The Art of the Title (Sequence)
Venom (2018) title sequence multi-split screen montage
Homecoming (Netflix 2018) Season One, Episode 10 timestamp 24:23 multi-split-screen montage
Ramones censored and rearranged in SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME - Official Teaser Trailer
studio logo 00:24
Dissecting a Trailer: The Parts of the Film That Make the Cut
PICNIC (Eureka Classics) New & Exclusive Trailer
Harmful masculinity and violence
The Female Gaze? Penelope Cruz's directorial debut with husband Javier Bardem for L'Agent lingerie
Penelope-Cruzs-directorial-debut-with-husband-Javier-Bardem-for-LAgent-lingerie
Shakespeare's Macbeth Films - Welles - Polanski - Kurosawa - Kurzel - Paul DuncanSlavoj Zizek — Why Akira Kurosawa did Shakespeare better
Trailer: Shakespeare por Welles
Release Date: Sept. 7 | Warner Bros.
Watch a Criterion, KINO, Cohen Media, or Flicker Alley narrative film we have seen in class. But before you do, make sure that UF has a DVD of the film. I recommend that you pick a film that is between 60 and 90 minutes. The assignmnt, or exercise, has three parts: 1. Design your own chapters and chapter titles. Give time stamps and image captures for where you chapters begin. 2. Now look at the chapter titles on the DVD and compare yours to those. (You make screen captures of chapter titles on the menu and give the time stamp on the film). How long are your chapters compared to those on the DVD? How many chapters do yours have? 3. Write a 150-200 word essay explaining why you think your titles are better or worse than those on the DVD.
Hamlet (1990) Official Trailer - Mel Gibson, Glenn Close Movie HD
Carl Orff - O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana
PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you didn't do the asignment, a close reading, your grade is an automatic E. If didn't put your name on your paper, it's an automatic E. If you didn't have a proper title, it's an automatic E. If you didn't have a thesis, it's an automatic E. One third of your grade will be based on your title; one third on your thesis; and one third on the rest of your paper.