As seen in Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (d. Arnold Glassman, 1992) there is an abundance of films for us to use as part of this unit. We will not have time to watch all of them in their entirety but rather and more so than any other area of the course, we will concentrate our attention on specific details (Mise en scene composition) of the films chosen.

German Expressionism

Nosferatu
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Film Noir

The Killers
Out of the Past
The T-Men


The T-Men (d. Anthony Mann, 1947) c. John Alton

The Seventh Seal (d. Ingmar Bergman, 1957) c. Gunnar Fischer (Sweden)
Barry Lyndon (d. Stanley Kubrick, 1975) c. John Alcott
The Draughtsman's Contract (d. Peter Greenway, 1982) c. Curtis Clark (UK)
Mother and Son (d. Aleksandr Sukorov, 1997) c. Aleksei Fyodorov (Russia)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (d. Kim Ki-duk, 2003) c. Baek Dong-hyeon (Korea)
Raging Bull (d. Martin Scorsese, 1980)

The Matrix (d. Wachowksi Brothers, 1999)
Inception (d. Christopher Nolan, 2010)