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Screening List (excerpts from Classics)
Lumiere Brothers: First Films
running time:61 min.
publisher: KINO VIDEO
Eighty-five of the 50-second "actualities" made by the Lumieres between
1895 and 1897 have been mastered from original 35mm material and are
presented here in this first ever authorized video presentation. An
amazing journey through the birth of the motion picture. Narrated by
film director and President of the Institut Lumiere Bertrand Tavernier
(Coup de Torchon), with a piano score by Stuart Oderman. (excerpts from
the DVD jacket)
Lumiere Institute, Lyon, France
Citizen Kane
starring & directed by : Orson Welles, 1941
running time : 119 min.
publisher: TCM Turner Classic Movies
Citizen Kane (1941) was unquestionably the most stunning debut of a
director in the history of American film. Written, directed, produced
by and starring 25-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles, the film
(originally titled John Citizen, U.S.A.) was a triumph for the already
sccuessful young radio and theater man. A masterpiece of various
filmmaking techniques, most notably the use of deep-focus photography.
(excerpts from the videotape jacket)
Touch of Evil
starring & directed by : Orson Welles, 1958
running time : 111 min.
publisher: Universal Studioss
Berlin -Symphony of A Great City-
directed by : Walther Ruttman, 1927
running time : 62 min.
A masterpiece of montage and visual design, Berlin, Symphony of a Great
City took the documentary form to new heights. Simple in concept, Berlin
photographically records a day in the workings of a city, capturing the
ordinary goings-on of the busy restaurants, factories and sidewalks.
(excerpts from the videotape jacket)
North by Northwest
directed by : Alfred Hitchcock, 1959
starring : Gary Grant
running time : 136 min.
publisher : warner video
He [Cary Grant] plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a
realm of spy [James Mason] and counterspy [Eva Marie Saint] and variously
abducted, framed for murder, chased and in another signature set piece,
crop-dusted.
(excerpts from the videotape jacket)
The Battleship Potemkin
directed by : Sergei Eisenstein, 1925
running time : 74 min.
publisher : sovexport film
music : Shostackovich
The Battleship Potemkin evolved from a film project assigned to Eisenstein
by the Soviet Central Committee in charge of planning celebrations for the
20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution....
The most famous sequence in The Battleship Potemkin - the massecre on the
Odessa Steps - is one of the most famous in film history. The Odessa
citizenry have been supporting the mutinoous sailor with food and cheer.
Suddenly, from the top of the flight of marble steps leading to the harbor
come marching Czarist soldiers with drawn rifles....
(excerpts from the DVD jacket)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
directed by :Jacques Demy, 1964
starring : Catherine Deneuve
running time : 91 min.
publisher : Fox Lorber
Screening List (CG shorts)
Les Mysteres du chateau du De (1928, Man Ray)
Ginza Walk Through (1993, Shiseido Co., Ltd)
The Unbuilt Monuments (1998, T. Nagakura, MIT ARC)