Topic: The French New Wave

Order Description READ 2nd Exam Questions Foreign Film: The French “New Wave” Write a minimum 1,250-word answer to the following essay question. Your essays must be typed, and double-spaced. Employing as primary materials notes from class discussion and films/film clips from class, compare and contrast the examples of the movies representing the “French New Wave,” particularly the cinema of Truffaut and Godard. Back up your points with specific examples from films studied in the class. In addition to your own thoughts, you should demonstrate a knowledge of reading attached Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1977) Two in the Wave (doc. on Truffaut and Godard by Emmanuel Laurent, 2010) The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959) Love at Twenty (a.k.a., Antoine and Colette) – (Truffaut, 1962) Stolen Kisses (Truffaut, 1968) The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003) Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) Breathless (American remake, dir. Jim McBride, starring Richard Geer, 1982) Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964) Pierrot le Fou (a.k.a. Pierrot the Fool, Godard, 1965) Weekend (Godard, 1967) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) A Woman is a Woman (Godard, 1961) Sources to be used Breaking The Rules - The French New Wave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R7R0JHvvgo The 400 Blows Les Quatre Cents Coups The Puppet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP2eWHdZLDE The Simpsons & François Truffaut - Les quatre cents coups (los 400 golpes / The 400 Blows) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsPnM3mTQjg Steven Spielberg On Working With François Truffaut (1978) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWnCvVGODmE Breathless: A Study of French New Wave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwCagRC80g4 Breathless 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diNUplP7GZ8 Last puff and last upskirt peek from Breathless, Godard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LKoJnMdz0I Squid and the Whale - Breathless Reference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSFwVv_2RN4 Bande à Part(1964)_vs_The Dreamers(2003) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4MV1NLejQ0 A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOyEj2SKVCQ Critics' Picks - Critics' Picks: 'Jules and Jim' - nytimes.com/video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkGFRwmakGQ The Seventh Seal: The knight's first meeting with death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anvRFJFUnRE Knight plays Chess with Death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTnX-yauFtQ Bill And Ted's Bogus Journey - Reaper Games http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5ryowAyLk YOJIMBO Trailer (1961) - The Criterion Collection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_1iT_GmHTE Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman (1/2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHqAO3hj54 Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman (2/2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_ev-c4rINA The Seventh Seal (1/3) (Det sjunde inseglet) - Breaking Down Bergman - Episode #17 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo8ENTVWhKw Ingmar Bergman On Persona 1966 (A Poem In Images) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTaoAIsFWuU Love and Death- Finale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4huaX0UAFGM Yojimbo re-dubbed with A Fistful of Dollars Score http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU0R8nMepkU JOHN BELUSHI - The Best Of Samurai Futaba - (Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F4QE5wVJYk Star Wars vs. Hidden Fortress Mashup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4_RPshvo5M The Masterworks - Akira Kurosawa (Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E2ctP9gBgw Other websites/essays: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-persona-1966 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-seventh-seal-1957 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-yojimbo-1961 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-rashomon-1950 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-persona-1966 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-persona-1966 http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-400-blows-1959 https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/528-the-400-blows-close-to-home