Suggested film clips

1/   SITES
Open Spaces

L’Avventura (Antonioni, 1960, Italy
The Little Fugitive (Engel, Ashley, Orkin, 1953, USA)
Summer with Monika (Bergman, 1953, Sweden)
A Summer’s Tale (Rohmer, 1997, France)
La Femme Aviateur (Rohmer, 1981, France)
Une vie difficile (Risi, 1961, Italy)

Constrained Spaces
Cars
Viaggio in Italia (Rosselini, 1960, France)
A bout de souffle (Godard, 1960, France)
Pierrot le fou (Godard, 1965, France)
Drive (Winding Refn, 2011, USA)
Bang Bang (Tonacci, 1971, Brazil)
Cinema, aspirinas e urubus (Gomes, 2005, Brazil)

Bus and train

Mes petites amoureuses (Eustache, 1974, Fance)
Design for living (Ernst Lubitsch, 1933, USA)
A Winter’s tale (Rohmer, 1992, France)

Corridors
Drive (Winding Refn, 2001, USA)
In the mood for love (Wong Kar Wai, 200, Hong Kong)

Cubicles
The cameraman (Keaton, 1928, USA)
L’Atalante (Vigo, 1934, France)

Lifts
La Peau douce (Truffaut, 1964, France)
Drive (Winding Refn, 2011, USA)
North by northwest (Hitchcock, 1959, USA)

Shops
Aniki-Bobo (D’Oliveira, 1942)
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Demy, 1964, France)
Baisers voles (Truffaut, 1968, France)

Classrooms
Rumba (Abel, 2008, France)
Bonjour (Ozu, 1959, Japan)
Noce Blanche (Brisseau, 1989, France)
Zero de Conduite (Vigo, 1933, France)
Les 400 coups (Truffaut, 1959, France)
J’ai tue ma mere (Dolan, 2009, Quebec)

Around a table
In the house
My wife’s relation (Keaton, 1922, USA)
Edward Scissorhands (Burton, 1990, USA)
Frau im Mond (Lang, 1928, Germany)
Shadow of a doubt (Hithcock, 1943, USA)
J’ai tue ma mere (Dolan, 2009, Quebec)
Cafes
Sunrise (Murnau, 1927, USA)
Vivre sa vie (Godard, 1962, France)
Bande a part (Godard, 1964, France)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948, Italy)
Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton, 2006, USA)
Gaming tables
Marius (Korda, 1931, France)
Stairs
Les 400 coups (Truffaut, 1959, France)
Shadow of a doubt (Hitchcock, 1943, USA)
Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960, USA)
The Servant (Losey, 1963, UK)
La Ragazza con la valigia (Zurlini, 1962, Italy)
Gone with the wind (Fleming, 1939, USA)
In the mood for love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000, Hong Kong)
Notorius (Hitchcock, 1946, USA)
Marnie (Hitchcock, 1964, USA)

2/   SITUATIONS
Romantic encounters

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Gondry, 2004, USA, 8′ 28″)
Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980, USA)
Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958, USA)
The Double life of Veronique (Kieslowski, 1991, France/ Poland)
A Place in the sun (Stevens, 1951, USA)
Three times (Hou Hsiao Hsien, 2005, France/ Taiwan)
Match Point (Allen, 2005, USA)

(also see in SITES:
Cars: Gomes, 2005;
Lifts: Truffaut, 1964;
Stairs: Zurlini, 1962; Fleming, 1939; Kar Wai, 2000;
Shops: Demy, 1964; Truffaut, 1968)

Disputes and separationsThe Barefoot Contessa (Mankiewicz, 1954, USA)
Loulou (Pialat, 1980, France)
Le Mepris (Godard, 1963, France)
Platform (Jia Zhank-ke, 2000, China)

Rivalries and confrontations
SOme came running (Minelli, 1958, USA)
Riso amoro (De Santis, 1949, Italy)
Once upon a tme in the west (Sergio Leone, 1968, USA)
The Trial (Welles, 1962, Germany/ France/ Italy)

(see also:
Cars: Tonacci, 1971;
Lifts: Truffaut, 1964;
Stairs: Losey, 1963; Hitchcock, 1946;
In the house: Dolan, 2009.)

TWO KEY FILMS
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola, 2009, USA)
Yuki and Nina (Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Girardot, 2009, France)

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