ALO - Global Studies

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Ron Fricke</div> <div> A movie with no conventional plot: merely a collection of expertly photographed scenes. Subject matter has a highly environmental theme.  Fricke worked on Koyaanisqatsi (1983, see below).</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103767" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103767"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0103767</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Koyaanisqatsi</I>, 1983, dir. Godfrey Reggio</div> <div> Koyaanisqatsi is a documentary (of sorts). It is also a visual concert of images set to the haunting music of Glass, Phillip. While there is no plot in the traditional sense, there is a definate scenario. The film opens on ancient native American cave drawings, while the soundtrack chants "Koyaanisqatsi" which is a Hopi indian term for "life out of balance". The film uses extensive time lapse photography (which speeds images up) and slow motion photography to make comparisons between different types of physical motion. In one of the first examples, we see cloud formations moving (sped up) intercut with a montage of ocean waves (slowed down) and in such a way we are able to see the similarities of movement between these natural forces. This technique of comparison exists throughout the film, and through it we learn more about the world around us.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085809" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085809"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0085809</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Powaqqatsi</I>, 1988, dir. Godfrey Reggio</div> <div> An exploration of the efforts of developing nations and the effect the transition to modernization has had on them.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095895" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095895"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0095895</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Kundun</I>, 1997, dir. Martin Scorsese</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119485" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119485"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0119485</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon</I>, 2000, Ang Lee</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0190332" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0190332"><U><I>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0190332</I></U></A></div> <div> Wonderful romantic fantasy with some VERY cool martial arts scenes choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping (<I>The Matrix</I>).  A film not to be missed.</div> <div> <I>Seven Years in Tibet</I>, 1997, dir. Jean Jacques Annaud</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120102" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120102"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120102</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Last Emperor</I>, 1987, dir. Bernado Bertolucci</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093389" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093389"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0093389</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Anna and the King</I>, 1999, dir. Andy Tennant</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0166485" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0166485"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0166485</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Ran</I>, 1985, dir. Akira Kurosawa</div> <div> Japanese version of King Lear, set in feudal Japan.  Stunning visuals from a master director.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089881" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089881"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089881</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Akira Kurosawa's <I>Dreams</I>, 1990, dir. Akira Kurosawa</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100998" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100998"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100998</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Hidden Fortress</I>, 1958, dir. Akira Kurosawa</div> <div> During Japan's feudal wars, two cowardly farmers stumble upon an attempt by a defeated army general to get the last member of his ruling house - a wilful young princess - to safety in friendly territory.  Possible inspiration for Star Wars - compare the two peasants to C-3P0 and R2-D2!</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0051808" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0051808"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0051808</U></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>The Seven Samurai</I>, 1954, dir. Akira Kurosawa</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0047478" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0047478"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0047478</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Akira</I>, 1988, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo</div> <div> Classic example of Japanese anime.   A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psionic psychopath that only two kids and a group of psionics can stop</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094625" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094625"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094625</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Gandhi</I>, 1982, dir. Richard Attenborough</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083987" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083987"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0083987</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Evita</I>, 1996, dir. Alan Parker</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116250" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116250"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116250</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Mission</I>, 1986, dir. Roland Joffe</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091530" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091530"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091530</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Man Who Would Be King</I>, 1975, dir. John Huston</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0073341" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0073341"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0073341</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Zulu</I>, 1964, dir. Cy Endfield</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058777" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058777"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058777</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Black Hawk Down</I>, 2001, dir. Ridley Scott</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265086" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265086"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0265086</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Gods Must Be Crazy</I>, 1980, dir. Jamie Uys</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080801" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080801"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080801</U></U></A></div> <div> <I>The Gods Must Be Crazy II</I>, 1989, dir. Jamie Uys</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097443" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097443"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097443</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Walkabout</I>, 1971, dir. Nicholas Roeg</div> <div> Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Aborigine on "walkabout": a ritualistic banishment from his tribe.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067959" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067959"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067959</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Emerald Forest</I>, 1985, dir. John Boorman</div> <div> An American businessman searches the Amazon rainforest for the Indian tribe that he believes has kidnapped his son and begins to understand the damage that a dam project is exacting on the forest and on its people.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089087" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089087"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089087</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Krippendorf's Tribe</I>, 1998</div> <div> The Worst Movie of All Time?...Perhaps!      An anthropologist creates a fictitious lost New Guinea tribe using his family members to cover-up for his mis-use of grant moneys</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120725" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120725"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120725</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>The Mosquito Coast</I>, 1986, dir. Peter Weir</div> <div> An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build an ice factory in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and with nature are only small obstacles to his obsession. Based upon a Paul Theroux novel.    a fizzle of a film.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091557" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091557"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091557</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Gladiator</I>, 2000, dir. Ridley Scott</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0172495" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0172495"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0172495</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Ben Hur</I>, 1959, dir. William Wyler</div> <div> The origin of “Podracing”!!  OK, well, a chariot race that might have been the inspiration for Episode I's podrace.</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0052618" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0052618"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0052618</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Spartacus</I>, 1960, dir. Stanley Kubrick</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054331" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054331"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0054331</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Braveheart</I>, 1995, dir. Mel Gibson</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112573" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112573"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0112573</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure</I>, 1989, dir. Stephen Herek</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096928" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096928"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096928</U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Natural Born Killers</I>, 1994, dir. Oliver Stone</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110632" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110632"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110632</U></U></A></div> <div> We are becoming a society more interested in crime and scandal than in anything else - more than in politics and the arts, certainly, and maybe even more than sports, unless crime is our new national sport… If that's true, then Stone's movie is about the latest all-Americans, Mickey and Mallory (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), two mass murderers who go on a killing spree across America, making sure everybody knows their names, so they get credit for their crimes. (Terrorists always claim "credit" rather than "blame.") The movie is not simply about their killings, however, but also about the way they electrify the media and exhilarate the public. (One teenager tells the TV cameras, "Mass murder is wrong. But if I were a mass murderer, I'd be Mickey and Mallory!")  - Roger Ebert</div> <div> <I>Pulp Fiction</I>, 1994, dir. Quentin Tarantino</div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110912" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110912"><U><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110912</U></U></A></div> <div> This movie's not on the list for its subject matter, except in so far as its subject is Hollywood films and film making.  If you choose to view/review it for class, you will have to look into the “old movies” which it parodies and use your film analysis skills that you've developed this year.</div> <div> Roger Ebert:  It is part of the folklore that Tarantino used to work as a clerk in a video store, and the inspiration for "Pulp Fiction" is old movies, not real life. The movie is like an excursion through the lurid images that lie wound up and trapped inside all those boxes on the Blockbuster shelves.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> and, oh yeah, almost forgot:</div> <div> Mel Brooks' <I>History of the World, part I</I></div> <div> <A HREF="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082517" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082517"><U>http://us.imdb.com/Title?0082517</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>