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CinemaasanArt.pptxIntro to CineMA
The Art of making movies
Course introduction
Student Introductions
Major
Preferred Gender Pronoun
Your Favorite Movie You Say to Impress People
Your Favorite Movie You Are Afraid to Tell People
Syllabus
When is Cinema an Art?
Lady Bird
When is it Cinema an art? Or When is a Movie a Movie?
Examining Cinema from the point of view of the filmmaker, not the critic or scholar
Not post-modern, studying intentions
Intention: To Make Art or To Entertain
“I'm not doing movies for theaters where they serve cappucino in the lobby. I'm doing popcorn movies.” –I’ll Do Anything
What is art?
“I come to the question of ‘Is it art?’ honestly: I’m an art history professor who occasionally writes about food. In asking whether great chefs are artists in the traditional sense of the word, I use the criteria that Aristotle set out around 300 B.C. One must pose three questions about each work of art: Is it good—does it achieve what its maker set out to do? Is it beautiful—in the case of food, does it provide aesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory pleasure? Is it interesting—does it break boundaries, make us think, or shake our heads in admiration?”
--Noah Charney, art history professor
Three working criteria to judge Art
Is it good?
Is it beautiful?
Is it interesting?
Watch The Final Table on Netflix (Episode 4, “Brasil”
from 3:30 to 6:20
then 15:00 to 16:30
then 22:30 to 24:00
Which is art?
is this art?
is this art?
The Treachery of Images or
This Is Not a Pipe
René Magritte
1929
Cinema vs. TV
“Simply put: Film is a visual art form and television is merely a visual medium…. Television will always be a medium that is esthetically inferior to cinema…. Cinema's scale and detail give it an emotional and intellectual depth that television can only parrot but never match, like gold compared to pyrite.”
--Armand White, critic
“I just know when to take their drawings away from them.”
Flan Kitteredge from "Six Degrees of Separation"
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Lady bird (2017)
Greta Gerwig (Writer/Director)
Gerwig was a key figure in the “Mumblecore” movement, collaborating with Joe Swanberg (Naperville Central High alum) as an actor (LOL), then co-writer (Hannah Takes the Stairs) and co- director (Nights and Weekends).
Nominated for Academy Award Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Lead and Supporting Actresses
Won Golden Globe Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actress (Soarise Ronan)
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Gerwig on Writing and improvisation
“One thing I learned from my experience writing scripts with Noah Baumbach for two movies, is that he’s relentless about trying to get it right on the page, because you only answer to yourself during that period of time, so you can really make it as perfect as possible. I don’t do any improvisation, and I don’t change anything once I’m on set. Because I spent so long on the script, I didn’t really have to fine tune the edit, which really serves the document and honors the performances that were given. The final cut is very, very close to the shooting script. Something like 95% of the script is exactly what’s in the cut, and in the same order.”
