Not only Hollywood: the history of world cinema - course 4950 rubles. from Level One, training 8 lectures for 2 hours, Date: November 30, 2023.

USA: Welles, Spielberg, Cuaron
The success of Hollywood is that for the first time they learned how to make accessible and mass-produced, but very cool experimental cinema. At the lecture we will talk about how Hollywood manages to combine mainstream and arthouse, and discuss the phenomenon of blockbuster films. We will also talk about the history of Hollywood and its influence on the USSR, Japan and Europe.

For clarity, we will analyze fragments of box office films that masquerade as pop cinema, but are not it - “Gone with the Wind”, “Gravity”, “Jaws”.

France: Renoir, Godard, Truffaut, Ozon, Noe
French cinema can be very different - there are sensual melodramas, comedies and many, many bold experiments. Let's find out how French cinema began and why it is so close to the Russian audience.

Let's analyze fragments of directors from different eras: from Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut to modern extreme sportsmen Francois Ozon and Gaspar Noe.

Italy: Pastrone, Fellini, Antonioni, Visconti, Sorrentino
Let's look at the history of Italian cinema from the early masterpieces through the films of Mussolini's reign to Italian neorealism, which influenced the cinema of France, the USA, the USSR and Japan. Let's end the meeting with a conversation about modern directors: Matteo Garrone, Roberto Benigni and Paolo Sorrentino.

We will analyze excerpts from both the early masterpieces - “Cabiria” and “Dante’s Inferno”, and from the films of Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Michelangelo Antonioni.

Germany, Austria and Scandinavia: Riefenstahl, Fassbinder, Bergman, von Trier
The First World War gave the country dark German expressionism, which later influenced American noir and the horror genre. After the war, German cinema took a long time to recover, and in the 60s the desire to put an end to the mainstream and the “new German cinema” arose.

Let's finish the conversation with Scandinavia - let's talk about the controversial figure of the rebel and brawler, the genius and the “villain” Lars von Trier. Let's talk separately about the great Danish director Dreyer, touching on the work of Ingmar Bergman and his influence on Fellini and Tarkovsky.

Spain and Portugal: Buñuel, Almodóvar, Franco, de Oliveira
During the lecture we will go through different eras of Spanish cinema: from Luis Buñuel to the cinema of the Franco period. Let's look at the period after the fall of the Franco regime using the example of Pedro Almodóvar. We will also talk about Spanish thrash using the example of the tireless Jesus Franco.

We will pay special attention to the cinema of Portugal and its main representative: Manuel de Oliveira, who made films until he was 106 years old!

Central Europe: Wajda, Polanski, Forman, Tarr, Kusturica
Czechoslovakia stood at the origins of cinematic erotica, and the Czech new wave will easily give the French a head start. Let's discuss the films of Milos Forman, Vysotsky's friend and author of the cult film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The Balkans or former Yugoslavia became famous as the home of the “black wave” - dark, revealing and sometimes completely crazy films. On this basis, the genius of Emir Kusturica, the main director of the Balkans and the brightest master of world cinema of the late 20th century, later blossomed.

Poland can boast of the names of Andrzej Wajda and the notorious Roman Polanski.

Hungary is marked by the names of Miklós Jancsó and the most important director of our time, Béla Tarr, who created the meditative and apocalyptic “The Turin Horse”.

Russia: Tarkovsky, Sokurov, Muratova, Balabanov, Zvyagintsev
Russian cinema is a territory of spiritual quest. Zvyagintsev's heroes search for but do not find God, Tarkovsky fills his films with biblical symbols, and Muratova and Balabanov show the darkest corners of the Russian soul.

The films of the main directors of recent decades will help you understand Russian cinema: “Andrei Rublev” and “Solaris” Tarkovsky, “The Lonely Voice of a Man” and “Faust” by Sokurov, “Return”, “Leviathan” and “Loveless” by Zvyagintsev and not only.

Asia: Kurosawa, Kitano, Kar-Wai, Miyazaki,
Virasethakul
We are used to thinking that Japanese cinema is all samurai and yakuza, and Indian cinema is all songs and dances. Do we know anything about the cinema of Thailand and North Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines? At the final lecture of the course, we will plunge into the wonderful world of Asian cinema: Japan, China, India, Thailand, Korea.