Lesson 3 - Case Study Film 2 - La Haine - Some Reading

La Haine Sight and Sound Article La Haine Representation Article La Haine - Lost in Translation

Lesson 3 - Case Study Film 2 - La Haine

Below is a short film that is part of a series by CNN on directors and the cities they live in. Here, Matthiew Kassovitz, the director of La Haine, briefly offers his point of view about Paris, fellow Parisiennes and certain aspects and areas of Paris that he feels are important cinematically.  He also explains why cities are important backdrops for directors and that, as a director, this helps to communicate the messages in his films.

LESSON 2 - Hong Kong Cinema - AS TEARS GO BY

This is the first part of Episode 2 of Jonathon Ross's documentary ASIAN INVASION. This extract offers some historical context of the Hong Kong film industry and how different New Waves affected generic developments and stylistic features. From watching this, you should be able to see how AS Tears Go By is both a commercial film that adopts some popular action codes and stylistic features explored by Hong Kong directors at the time but also plays with the idea of romance and dramatises the action with his anti-heros and complex, emotional characters who want to leave their urban environment but can't.




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It's a really good documentary and you can find all the episodes on www.youtube.com JONATHON ROSS ASIAN INVASION DOCUMENTARY

Dan's class - Set 2, Homework, lesson 1

A2 Film Studies Homework You are going to create your own Urban Story: • Firstly recap your notes (remember the Prezi: www.urbanstories2012@blogspot.co.uk) to remind yourself of the key themes we discussed in class. • Secondly, using your phone’s camera, take at least 5 photos that characterise the urban experience for you. • Put these in a Word document and create a imaginary synopsis for a short “Urban Story” that that joins them together. Your synopsis should include a main character (give them a name) and should reflect some of the ideas about the urban experience we discussed in class. Due next Friday:

Lesson 1 Homework - set 1 (Louisa)

Reminder of the homework for today's lesson - due in for my lesson next Wednesday:

1)  Analyse one of the following clips and fill out the grid on your handout:

• Bicycle Thieves (on the Prezi)
• Tokyo Story (on the Prezi)
• The Battle of Algiers (on the blog)

2) Pick a minimum of 2 further clips from the Prezi, analyse them and fill out the grid on your handout

3) Write one side of A4 in response to the question: What is an Urban Story?  Your answer should include a definition and consider some of the themes, characters, common props and stylistic codes that we would expect to see. You MUST refer to examples from the clips you have analysed to support your answer.

Below is a reminder of some of the points that you came up with about the Urban Experience, which may help you writing your answer...

Lesson 1 - Metropolis, The Battle of Algiers & Additional clips

Fritz Lang: METROPOLIS (1927) from cinema.antifono on Vimeo.



The Battle of Algiers - 1966
Click on the link to watch the clip on Youtube: http://youtu.be/CXlNsYoZTjU

Lesson 1 - Introduction to the Unit