The title of the movie is And the Band Played On because it’s a reference to the Titanic. In the movie‚ Titanic‚ the band kept playing while the ship was sinking. In the movie‚ And the Band Played On everyone kept their daily activities going although the new disease was going around and killing several people. Don Francis is an epidemiologist who worked on the Ebola outbreak in Africa in the late 1970s‚ and researched on HIV and AIDS. Dr. William Darrow helped in the discovery of HIV. Dr. Robert
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Daniel Pareja Mary Samuelson Critical Film Studies 3 March 2015 Weekly Film Essay: Breathless Breathless (À bout de souffle) is a 1960 French New Wave film written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The script was written by Godard as he went along but it is a development of a treatment of a newspaper story (that Truffaut read) which was worked on by François Truffaut and Claude Chabro. Michel Poiccard is based on Michel Portail (who had an American and Journalist girlfriend) who stole a car in 1952
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BREATHLESS by Jean-Luc Godard Aesthetics and Visual Analysis Paolo Favero Tim Somers s0111755 Film Studies & Visual Culture BREATHLESS by Jean-Luc Godard A visual analysis by Tim Somers Aesthetics and Visual Analysis Fall term 2012 "Ne va pas montrer tous les côtés des choses‚ garde-toi une marge d ’indéfini." Jean-Luc GODARD Introduction It isn ’t hard to see why Breathless (original title: À Bout de Souffle) manages to distinguish itself from general film‚ being now or at the time it
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Page Introduction to Film Art Fall 2013 Malcolm Turvey Office: Heimbold 304F Extension: 2644 E-mail: mturvey@slc.edu Syllabus Required Textbook: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson‚ Film Art: An Introduction (New York: McGraw Hill‚ 2012; 10th edition) Class Schedule: NB: Readings marked (X) must be downloaded from MySLC Week 1 Conferences 9/10: NO CONFERENCES Screening 9/10: Collateral (Michael Mann‚ 2004‚ 120 min.) 9/11: Read: Introduction: Film as Art Film Art‚ Chapter
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149037373 Cinematic Innovations in A Bout de Soufflé A bout de soufflé by Jean-Luc Godard (1960) is full of new attempts both in its form and contents as he made it with such intention: A Bout de Soufflé was the sort of film where anything goes: that was what it was all about. … What I wanted was to take a conventional story and remake‚ but differently‚ everything the cinema had done.1 Apparently‚ the film has novel‚ innovative features in almost every aspect of cinema including shooting‚ editing
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filmmakers have effectively exploited similar progressive concepts for years‚ it has also inspired other filmmakers to create inverted juxtapositional styled films. The collaborative film Tout Va Bien by the Dziga Vertov Group which consists of Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin is an exemplification of such a counter Hollywood style film. Brian Henderson a film critic and writer of “Towards a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style‚” characterized Godard’s approach on certain films as “non-bourgeois” for various
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SELF- CONFIDENCE "There are three words a skipper never says‚’ I don’t know’. Those three words will kill a crew as fast as a torpedo. You are the skipper because you do know‚ the skipper always knows." Said to Mathew McConaughey by Harvey Kietel in the film U-571. Self-confidence is the most important trait of a good leader. Self-confidence is what others look to when they look to a leader. A self-confident leader is a powerful leader that always has an answer to the follower’s questions
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Particularly in France‚ prostitution has had a long and extended socioeconomic influence and is recognised by Nicolas Sarkozy (former French president) as being part of France ’s national cultural heritage (Gangoli‚ G. & Westmarland‚ N. 2006). In Jean-Luc Godard ’s fourth feature film‚ Vivre Sa Vie (1962)‚ an account of the impact prostitution and its affiliation with criminality in the daily lives of ordinary Parisians is brought to light in the style of a theatrical documentary‚ using various Brechtian
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The French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) emerged in the 1950s as a core of articulate young film-makers. Amongst the most successful of the group were soon to be famous names such as Claude Chabrol‚ Francois Truffaut and Jean Luc Godard and to a lesser extent Jacques Rivette‚ Jacques Daniol-Valcroze and Eric Rohmer. All were critics for the influential film magazine ’Cahiers du Cinema’‚ where they worked under the guidance of film theorist and co-founder of ’Cahiers’‚ André Bazin. Intellectual
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are still similar to Hollywood films‚ yet‚ has a different style as Hollywood films. Such mise-en-scene expression are most common style uses in both of the period. And Breathless‚ as an example film during the French New Wave‚ which directed by Jean-Luc Godard is one of the most influential film utilizing editing‚ mise-en-scene and cinematography to convey the information to the audience in the period. The mise-en-scene uses in the film establish the character’s personality‚ also‚ creates the mood
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