Cinema of France

The raw logistics of projecting moving images was pursued all over the world, but cinema was born in France. The world’s first screening of a motion picture was in the Grand Cafe in Paris, on December 28th, 1895. It was a series of ten films made by the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere, including their first ever film, Sortie des Usines Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory). This was done with Léon Bouly 's cinématographe device, the rights to which had been purchased by the Lumiere brothers. From here, both the industry and the technology of projecting motion pictures boomed in France. The three most prominent companies in France at the time were the Lumiere’s own projection company, and the two cinema giants Pathè Frères…

n utilised in their own works. Though “the young French cinema indirectly reproached Hollywood’s long-established narratives and restricted storyline subterfuges” (Lanzoni, 206), the French New Wave directors also had a longstanding appreciation for directorial greats like Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Orson Welles. Each film was an exercise in honouring great filmmakers, and any other hero of the director: writers, great thinkers and even Hollywood actors, through countless references in…

They labelled it the cinema de papa (old fogies cinema). They put forward and discussed many different propositions and ideas in the pages of the cahiers du cinema in the 50s. The most significant one which had the greatest influence on new wave films was la politique des auteurs (The policy of authors). Largely created by Truffaut in his famous essay a certain tendency in French Cinema he argued that a film, through the way in which its images are presented to the audience on the screen,…

attractions. The city of Paris, France, goes way back to more than 2000 years back in time. Lots of people think Paris has some of the most interesting history to it in all its years. In 52 B.C. Julius Caesar took control of the city of Paris when it was just starting to grow into a huge civilization, and it was just a little fishing village for the new people there. Back then when it was just a small fishing village, it was called Lutetia Parisiorum. Paris then under the Romans, the little…

to build the existence of cinematograpgy or the ‘cinema’ that we have until today. The Cinematographe has developed countless opportunities for the Brothers to project their motion pictures to the people in France. Of course, at the same time, motion pictures have been developed by other pioneers such as Thomas Edison, but the Lumiere brothers were the ones who pioneered into developing a paying fee for the audiences to pay to watch the projected motion pictures. Despite the fact that these…

French cinema in the late 1930’s defined strict contrasts between the upper and lower-classes of France. To the lavish upper-class society of France, love is portrayed as a comedy, while to the poor working class, love is nothing more than a despairing tragedy that drains all optimism. Two 1939 films that depict the stark class divisions very well are Marcel Carne’s Le Jour Se Leve (Daybreak) and Jean Renoir’s La Regle du jeu (The Rules of the Game).The character’s offbeat and dynamic…

The catacombs in Paris France are located in the heart of Paris its right in the middle. Catacombs are underground tombs that holds human bodies in the walls. Archaeologist are still discovering new parts of the catacombs and new entry ways. There is no definitive map of the underground quarries, but it is estimated that there is about 300 kilometers of galleries, under the 5th, 6th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 20th districts. With the most extensive part of the labyrinth being located…

C6.3 Media Awareness Demonstrator 3 Introduction 1. Give the following information: a) the name of the documentary or short film Cliff The name of the documentary is called The Cliff Hangers. b) the year it was made The documentary was made in 1950. c) the website address The website address is https://www.nfb.ca/film/cliff_hangers/ d) the producer/filmmaker The film was produced by The National Film Board e) the length of the documentary or short film The total length of the video was…

Slumdog Millionaire, a movie by Danny Boyle, set in Mumbai, tells the story of Jamal Malik, a contestant on India’s version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. Jamal was born in the slums of Mumbai with little education and was on his way to win the grand prize on the game show. Whilst on the show, he is suspected of cheating but little do his accusers know that Jamal’s life experience provides him with essential clues to answer each question. The movie alternates between flashbacks from Jamal’s…

“True function of cinema is not to tell fables … the cinema must tell reality as if it were a story; there must be no gap between life and what is on the screen.” – CEZARE ZAVATTINI This essay examines the life of lower-middle class in a city with the help of the movie Bicycle Thieves. Despite having been released during the middle of the 20th century, its continuing relevance in the present makes it an interesting topic of discussion. Bicycle Thieves is an Italian film directed by Vittorio De…