Faces Places

What is your favorite sequence in the film and why? Include cinematic vocabulary in your response.

Cleo From 5 to 7

Discuss ways in which Varda utilizes "real time" cinematically and how she portrays Cleo's worries of her impending diagnosis.

Be sure to research the film and include one quote from an essay you find. Here's one to get you started: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/499-cl-o-from-5-to-7-passionate-time.

Genre

Choose a 5 minute scene in either 42nd Street or Public Enemy. How does the scene and the film as a whole challenge or fulfill the conventions of the musical or gangster film? How do these conventions and cinematic elements convey the socio-economic situation of people in the United States at the time of production?

French New Wave

Choose a 5 minute scene in either The 400 Blows or Breathless and analyze it through a geographical context. How does the geographical location of the film’s origin affect its mise-en-scene? Give detailed and specific examples.