From the Lumiere brothers to Luc Besson: how European cinema has changed. Discussed in the Caretaker podcast

European cinema is often associated with auteur. The stereotype has become firmly entrenched in the minds of the audience that Hollywood films are mainstream and solid blockbusters, while the films produced in Europe are exclusively art house and festival creativity. Such an idea often pushes the mass audience away from European cinema and leaves it to true connoisseurs living on film forums and thematic publics on social networks. And it is completely in vain - films shot in France, Italy or Spain are different. They can satisfy any taste and match any mood and state of mind.

In the latest episode of the Watchmen podcast, critic Alexei Khromov tells how Germany gave the world cinema expressionism, France made another revolution called "New Wave", and directors from Italy once overtook their colleagues from the United States in their "native" genre westerns.

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01:55 - Alexey talks about the Frenchman Georges Méliès, who quite by accident came up with the montage.
07:56 - French "new wave": how film critics decided to make films and made a cultural breakthrough.
16:38 - about Luc Besson and his paintings, completely different in spirit and style.
24:30 - a little about spaghetti westerns and an Italian look at cowboys and Wild West.
31:55 - whether contemporary cinema in Europe is inferior to what is being produced now in the United States.
35:23 - how streaming services popularize films and series from different countries and blur the boundaries in the world of cinema.

What to watch

We've collected the films and TV shows featured in the podcast:

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wienet, 1920.
• Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang, 1927.
• "Handsome Serge", directed by Claude Chabrol, 1958.
• "400 strokes", director - Francois Truffaut, 1959.
• "In the Last Breath", directed by Jean-Luc Godard, 1960.
• Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, 1948.
• "8 and a Half", directed by Federico Fellini, 1963.
• "Blue Abyss", directed by Luc Besson, 1988.
• The Last Stand, directed by Luc Besson, 1983.
• Leon, directed by Luc Besson, 1994.
• Django, directed by Sergio Corbucci, 1966.
• For a Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone, 1964.
• "Chingachgook - Big Serpent", director - Richard Groschopp, 1967.
• The Faithful Hand is a friend of the Indians, directed by Alfred Forer, 1965.
• «One more», Directed by Thomas Winterberg, 2020.
• "Darkness", director - Baran bo Odar, 2017–2020.
• «Lupine», Creators - George Kay, François Yuzan, 2021 - present.
• Marianne, directed by Samuel Bodin, 2019.
• «Katla», Creator - Baltasar Cormakur, 2021.
• "Paper House", creator - Alex Pina, 2017 - present.
• Elite, creators - Carlos Montero, Dario Madrona, 2018 - present.

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