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French Film 1920-40
France the home of film criticism
Napoleon/Abel Gance (1927)
Impressionist filmmaking
Avant-gardist fimmaker
Ambitious
Napoleon (27)
3 hours
Split screen
Polyvision
16 images placed together
Triptych: three screen projection
Master of montage
Color film
Last reel in 3-D
Gance decided not to release
Theodor Dreyer: Passion of Joan of Arc
Arc’s trial in a day but long and endless
A film of faces and essences
Joan speaks with her expression
Pure vision
Un Chien Andalou
Surreal images
Logic of a dream
Sexual/violent
Frightening horrifying
Sex lust, morbid
Buenel and Dali

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  • 1. French Film 1920-40 France the home of film criticism
  • 2. Napoleon/Abel Gance (1927) Impressionist filmmaking Avant-gardist fimmaker Ambitious Napoleon (27) 3 hours Split screen Polyvision 16 images placed together Triptych: three screen projection Master of montage Color film Last reel in 3-D Gance decided not to release
  • 3. Theodor Dreyer: Passion of Joan of Arc Arc’s trial in a day but long and endless A film of faces and essences Joan speaks with her expression Pure vision
  • 4. Un Chien Andalou Surreal images Logic of a dream Sexual/violent Frightening horrifying Sex lust, morbid Buenel and Dali

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