Film Eyewitness Companions

E Y E W I TN E S S c o m pa n i o n s E YEWI TNE SS com panions Discover more at www.dk.com Film E YE WI TNE SS com panions Film Film E Y E W I T N E S S c o m pa n i o n s Hollywood to Bollywood Profiles the work of the greatest international directors, reviews the most influential films of all time, and explores the cinema of the world, from Australia to Zimbabwe. How movies are made Outlines the who, what, when, and where of the life cycle of a film— from “pitch” to première. Ronald Bergan is a renowned film historian and critic who has written and contributed to many books on film, including DK’s Cinema Year By Year. Ronald lectures on cinema throughout the world and is also a regular contributor to a number of newspapers. Contents The story of cinema how movies are made movie genres world cinema Pages 14–87 Pages 88–111 Pages 112–177 Pages 178–245 $30.00 USA $38.00 Canada a–z of directors Top 100 movies reference Pages 246–393 Pages 394–491 Pages 492–501 Jacket images Front: Alamy Images (t, bl); Kobal Collection: The Graduate (Embassy)(c); Hero/Ying Xiong (Beijing New Picture/Elite)(bcl); La Dolce Vita poster (Riama-Pathe)(bcr); The Lost World (Universal/Amblin) (br). Spine: Getty Images: Stockbyte (t); Kobal Collection: Saturday Night Fever (Paramount)(b). Back: Kobal Collection: A Clockwork Orange (Warner Bros)(t), Flying Down to Rio (RKO)(tl); Shrek 2 (Dreamworks) (tr); Eraser (Warner Bros)(cl); Devdas (Damfx)(cr). KEY TO SYMBOLS USED IN THIS BOOK Birth and death dates Nationality Dates active Number of films Key genres RONALD BERGAN other eyewitness companions architecture • art • astronomy backpacking & hiking • cats classical music • dogs • french cheeses french wines • golf • guitar • olive oil opera • photography • riding • scuba diving trees • wines of the world HISTORY • GENRES • WORLD CINEMA AZ OF DIRECTORS • TOP 100 MOVIES HISTORY • GENRES • WORLD CINEMA AZ OF DIRECTORS • TOP 100 MOVIES Film Film The story of film and movie genres Traces the evolution of the cinema and explores the genres of film-making, from avant-garde to animation. Printed in China eyewitness companions Film Ronald beRgan [...]... Hollywood has dominated the film industry worldwide from the 1920s, it is not the only “player” in a truly global market What makes film the most international of the arts is the vast range of films that come from more than 50 countries — films that are as multifaceted as the cultures that produce them More and more countries, long ignored as film- making nations, have produced films that have entered the... muscular athleticism Fairbanks had a hand in every aspect of film- making, and was particularly interested in set design Europe and russia After World War I, the prosperity of the film industry in France and Italy was eclipsed by increased imports of American films Nevertheless, despite the flood of Hollywood films, Europe would continue to produce films of great artistic quality Among the masterpieces were... about foreign-language titles: in many cases, both the English title and the original title of the film is given However, when the title of the film has never been translated or the film is best known under its original title (e.g La Dolce Vita rather than The Sweet Life), the original title is used If the film is better known by its English title (e.g In the Mood For Love rather than Fa yeung nin wa),... one, wall, thus making was patented in the this the first film brothers’ names on with special effects February 13, 1895 A film called The first public Watering the Gardener performance of the (1895) is considered A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans Cinématographe took la Lune, 1902) was one of Georges Méliès’ the first film comedy fantastical films place on December It shows a gardener 28, 1895 at the... directed by Cecil B DeMille, was the first feature-length film to be produced in Hollywood As the music master throws each head onto a telegraph wire, they form a series of musical notes fantasy and reality Film scholars have pointed out that the films of the Lumière brothers and of Méliès reveal the distinction between documentary and fiction films The Lumières employed cameramen to travel the world,... American film, The Torrent (1925), and was replaced by Clarence Brown (1890– 1987) after only ten days on her second film, Flesh and the Devil (1926) The urgency of her love scenes with John Gilbert, with whom she was involved off-screen, conveyed a mature sexuality and vulnerability never before seen in American films The cinematographer William Daniels, who shot nearly all her Hollywood films, devised... Greenaway has said, “More films go to people nowadays than people go to films.” Directors are learning to 13 Edmund (Skandar Keynes) is confronted by the CGIcreated lion Aslan, in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) come to terms with these new ways of watching films Yet, whatever technical advances have been made, no matter where and how we watch films, whether seen on... with a third of the film The breakthrough shot without sound, it was came in October 1927 impossible to reshoot it when Warner Bros with sound, and therefore launched the first the film was redundant In reality, it was because commercially successful Swanson and Kennedy sound feature film, The Jazz Singer, this came to consider the time featuring lip-synch subject matter of the film recordings of songs... flexible sound-on -film recording again in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, process This meant the end of about a forgotten star of silent films In this film, the sequences screened by Warner’s Vitaphone By 1929, thousands of cinemas were equipped An unemployed man appeals for help in the soulless with sound, and dozens of silent big city in King Vidor’s silent, poignant masterpiece, films had added talking... machinegun dialogue, George Cukor with his glossy, literate films at MGM, and Ernst Lubitsch, who was able to demonstrate his cynical wit and sophistication in films such as Trouble in Paradise (1932) as well as in musicals starring Maurice Chevalier european film in the 1930 s In France, René Clair and Jean Renoir made good use of sound Clair’s first sound film, Sous les Toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris, . MOVIES Film Film The story of film and movie genres Traces the evolution of the cinema and explores the genres of film-making, from avant-garde to animation. Printed in China eyewitness companions Film Ronald. S S c o m pa n i o n s E YEWI TNE SS com panions Discover more at www.dk.com Film E YE WI TNE SS com panions Film Film E Y E W I T N E S S c o m pa n i o n s Hollywood to Bollywood Profiles the. and death dates Nationality Dates active Number of films Key genres RONALD BERGAN other eyewitness companions architecture • art • astronomy backpacking & hiking • cats classical music