"Cinema Spaces Bunkers and Locations" "Land beyond the sunset forgotten director," "The land of darknes" "In order to tell stories, cinema has to give birth to people" "Stories are comprised of people and locations" "A workprint of Griffith's Way down east" "An ice-cold winter, three cameras are placed along the river" "They are to track the path of an unconscious woman on an ice floe" "She's floating toward a waterfall" "Every story recounts how a person gets from here to there" "From one situation to the next" "From one place to the next" "From night to day" "From start to finish" "Commanche Station by Bud Boetticher, the opening scene" "Randolph Scott is riding through a rocky desert" "He disappears behind rocks, then reappears" "His path is windy and laborious" "This is lonesome and hostile country" "Here one cannot live or exist or reside" "One may only traverse it, and one needs a good reason for it" "At last he meets a band of Indians and spreads out before them some goods for exchange" "The situation is tense and hostile" "But an encounter in this remote area could only be on hostile terms" "He exchanges goods for a white woman who had been taken captive by the Indians" "And he takes her back home" "A city, early morning, near the harbour" "A police car on patrol, via radio the report of an armed robbery" "The patrol car loops through the empty streets" "An armed man attempts to escape the scene" "He sneaks into a small side street" "He enters a diner" "In a forelorn neighbourhood" "The bartender knows him well" "He places the hunted man's weapon into the till" "As if they belonged together" "The evidence is thus well concealed" "The man himself cannot hide" "The police snatches him up" "Asphalt Jungle by John Houston" "A dilapidated one-room apartment" "A man is cooking a meal" "He's wearing a stained bathrobe" "A knock on the door" "A stranger enters" "The man turns off the gas stove" ""Could start a fire", he says" ""And there's some friendly neighbours"" "He has waited for this moment for seven years" "For seven years he's been hiding out in this room and never left the house." "Now the door has been opened and the past has entered the room" "He lies down on the bed" ""It's easier this way", he says "come closer"" ""One round should suffice"" "The visitor does not want to kill him" "He wants information, he's a police officer" "The man knows a secret" "He locked himself away, not to reveal it" "It was his life insurance" "But he no longer cares for anything" "He doesn't know when he will be killed but he does know the place" "He himself chose the place" "He has made his world so small that it only contains him and his end" "The policeman wants to arrest him and to place him in a proper prison" ""You're safer with us", he says" "In the end it transpires that what the man had believed wasn't true" "Promotional photographs" "Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel" "A High Society event in the ballroom" "The servants have left the building" "The doors have been locked" "There is no exit" "Composure may be maintained for a while but then manners begin to deteriorate" "There are unpleasant moments" "The less they get along the more they close in on another" "Their privileges taken away they surrender all self-control" "The house is trashed the ballroom is wrecked in short time" "A decision is made to break through the walls but it cannot be dones" "Instead everything dear to them is laid to waste" "Why can't they get out?" "Bunuel has locked the doors and thrown away the key" "The spectators are even more upset than the characters" "It cannot be understood why they cannot free themselves" "M by Fritz Lang" "The mother is calling for her daughter" "A child is not in its place" "Last seen on the street" "Aloof, playing with a ball" "It is late" "Streetlamps cast a shadow" "In Lang's work the outdoor locations are also claustrophobic" "They were shot in the studio" "The mother is waiting by the door" "The clock is at quarter past one" "The mother calls out for the child through the backyard window" "Her cal echoes through the empty stairway" "Her call in the laundry attic" "One gets to see the entire sociology of the Berlin barracks" "The orphaned table" "Strictly and lovingly laid out" "The empty chair" "This table already contains the entire unfolding drama" "Les yeux sans visage by Georges Franju" "Rear Window by Hitchcock" "Opening scene" "Rear Window is about the involuntary captivity of a man in his own apartment" "He cannot walk, a broken leg is in a cast" "How may he leave, nonetheless?" "By looking out the window" "What can be seen?" "Other people's windows" "A young female neighbour, she's a dancer" "A married couple who's always arguing" "A sculptor" ""I call it HUNGER", she says" "Newlyweds" "A pianist struggling to compose a melody" "He falls asleep" "His girlfriend visits" "Her shadow on his face" "The windows across are mirror reflections cast across the yard" "They reveal what is happening in the observer's room" "The film goes through the entire repertoire of being alone, or with another person" "How intimate should one get?" "How far should one go?" "How far does a woman have to go before you notice her?" "If she's pretty enough, not very far at all" "She just has to be around" "He raises his glass to a woman who is lonely and who has an imaginary visitor" "The young dancer has three men visiting" "The salesman across is once again arguing with his bedridden wife" "His girlfriend comes around" "He doesn't receive her very amicably" "They argue" "She's disappointed and leaves again" "His gaze follows her lost in thoughts" "And then returns to the yard" "Le crime de Monsieur Lange by Jean Renoir" "The dancer is practicing" "The piano player found a melody" "The young husband is getting some air" "The lonely woman wants to kill herself" "The husband discover's his wife's wedding ring in her purse" "He packs a large trunk a rolled up mattress" "He cleans a large butcher's knife" "He leaves the building with a suitcase" "The photographer observes all of this" "He senses terrible things" "He thinks a murder has been committed" "He witnessed it" "But the murderer saw him also, and knows he has been spotted" "He plungs him out of the window, into the yard and can no longer run away from his girlfriend because now he is twice immobilised" "At the end of the film all relationships are inverted and turn into their opposite" "Cosmo!" "Ronnie, can you hand me Los olvidados" "That's the country section" "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie by John Cassavettes" " Which scene are you watching?" " A chase" " Where does it take place?" " In a rundown warehouse that has many rooms, hallways and stairways" " Can the pursuer catch him?" " Not for the time being" " Will he escape?" " He's hiding" " Anybody else involved?" " They are alone" " Let me know when he catches up to him" "Goldrush by Charles Spencer Chaplin" "Ronnie, can you fetch the photos of Los olvidados?" "Two people in the same place" "A roof above their head, but no secure ground beneath their feet" "Chaplin proves that an exterior belongs to every interior" "A blind street musician struggles along with his instruments, some home-built" "Three youths follow him, they pick up rocks" "He hears something" "He listens" "The youths want to attack him" "They make him fall" "They throw rocks at him" "The leader lifts a particularly heavy rock and destroys the drum" "The blind man hears this and wants to rush to it" "He is tripped up" "Here he's down in the dirt" "The three run off as he struggles to his feet" "A chicken has a mute argument with him" "Los olvidados by Bunuel" "The opening sequence on the boulevard" "The city centre is the virtual centre of the film" "But its locations are at the periphery at the margin, at an outer district" "The face surrounded by open land the land is barren and empty, a cleared off stage" "No superfluous props" "The crime takes place in its own proportionality" "In the background the skeleton of a steel construction the product of town planning and real estate sharks" "The ground is hard and dry dust, nothing can flourish here" "We need the country section" "City folks are on a country excursion" "They find a glorious spot" "That invites a longer stay" "They get comfortable" "They relax" "It's a Sunday" "They tease one another" "Get closer and annoyed" "Given a little nature from behind the quotidian behaviour, sleepy, dull, emotions come to the surface" "The film criticizes this idyll, ironically, but lovingly it concedes" "On the swings" "A pleasant feeling to move in two directions" "Up and down back and forth" "There's charming company" "Compliments are exchanged" "There's occasion for a boat ride" "Birdsong is heard" "False emotions suddenly become genuine" "The nightingale in the shrubs" "A Country Trip by Jean Renoir" "Wind, rain, thunderstorm and the artificial thunderstorm ceases to be" "Night of the Hunter by Charles Laughton" "Drums along the Mohawk by John Ford" "A man is running for his life they are in hot pursuit and the forest blocks his way" "The children successfully escaped their stepfather" "The river carries the boat into a fairy tale world" "In fairy tales it is ghoulishly exciting to be abandoned and have no home" "One has to find one's own" "Nothing will be like before" "Sunrise by Murnau" "Location: a boggy forest" "The man has to cross it" "The camera leads the way, glides through the bushes" "It's an artificial studio bog" "It's a moral landscape" "At the other end, ruin awaits in the shape of a woman" "During the chase what matters is whether the distance between two locations can be reduced in such a way that they merge at last" "When this happens" "One of the parties, pursued or pursuer has to get out of the picture" "The lesson: never more than one person in one place" "It deals with the Allies' invasion of Normandy and the driving out of France of the Nazi Army" "In the first part the film layers maps with war footage" "As if the war was practical applied geography" "A simultaneous description and utilisation of the planet" "The landscape is given a new look" "In the second part, the film takes a look at the work of destruction" "It traverses the battlefield like one who is collecting the dead and is looking around for anything useful at the same time" "Some damages can be repaired" "The irreparable gets left behind" "Whatever is still useful is kept" "Children play among the ruins" " A new cultural landscape is developing" " A panoramic camera shot of a muted battlefield" "It is a moonscape like waste" "Not a leaf of grass anywhere" "On the mountain slope the artillery has blown the soil off the naked rocks" "An endless row of bomb craters and trenches" "The camera pans panoramically, slowly, without stopping" "Trenches filled with corpses, more and more and more" "A wide landscape" "Nothing stirs" "Corpses" "Only Corpses" "A panorama" "This stubborn monotony that grips the spectator is like a long, drawn out cry of desparation" "In one of the shots an entire regiment, blinded by poison gas" "Is driven through the burning streets of Bruges" "Yes, this flock is driven like sheep, driven with bayonets" " Where is 'My darling Clementine'?" " On the ground" "A heap of rubble in devasted Naples" "A loitering boy who fends for himself as a shoe shine boy and a black GI of the military police who is drunk" "They've found each other" "The black man discovers a key among the debris" ""A key", he says, "but all the houses are wide open"" ""no keys needed"" "The GI dreams of his return" "A flight to New York" ""Down there New York is waiting"" "The mayor will greet him personally" "It will rain ticker-tape" "He's going home, home" "Then he remembers 'home'" "A hovel." "He's here in Italy, has liberated the country from fascism and his own home is not much more than this shabby heap of rubble" "He no longer wants to go back" "He prefers to sleep" ""If you fall asleep", Pasquale warns him," ""I will steal your boots"" "And that is what happens..." " Here!" "Germania Anno Zero by Rosselini" "A boy is playing among the wreckage of a German town" "The boy killed his father" "He plays in order to forget" "Something took place here, before the film started" "A reality of the first degree" "The film unfolds in order to remind us what has taken place here" "It tells the location's story once again from the perspective of fiction" "In the year 1920 Kuleshov shot the following scene as an experiment" "Firstly, a young man is crossing from left to right" "Secondly, a young woman is crossing from right to the left Thirdly, they meet and shake hands" "Fourthly, a big white building is shown, wide steps are leading up to it" "Fifthly, the two ascend the steps" "These shots, taken separately were instructed to be added in this order and then projected" "The spectator perceives the scene as uninterrupted action" "The meeting of two young people" "An invitation to the nearby house" "And their entry" "However, each of the segments was recorded in a different location" "The young man in the city centre" "The woman in the western part of the city" "Their encounter not far from Bolshoy Theatre" "The white house taken from an American film" "It is in fact the White House" "While the steps are those of St Xavier Cathedral" "What was the result?" "Although the shots were recorded in completely different locations" "The spectator perceived the scene as a unity" "The parts of actual space chosen by the camera appeared on the screen" "How does one get from here to there" "Les Carabiniers by Godard" " They appeared on the screen as "concentrate", so to speak" "The result was what Kuleshov called "creative geography"" "By assembling the segments a new filmic space was created that did not exist in reality" "Buildings that are thousands of miles apart were pushed together into a space that an actor could have crossed with a few steps" "He lives in New York" "She lives in Taiwan" "He catches a flight" "She catches a flight a flight to Paris a flight to Constantinople" "He boards a train" "She boards a horse-drawn carriage" "And heads for Venice" "They meet in St Marcus Square" "La Notte by Antonioni" "Hey, that's not La Notte" "A Sunday stroll through the film set of My Darling Clementine" "Five artificial facades and some boards placed on the ground" "Back then towns out West were not much different" "A few square metres of civilization wrested from nature's grasp" "This condition is the sujet of the film" "A man and a woman on their way through a town" "It's during the war, Florence, 1944" "Part of the town was liberated by the Allied Forces" "Another part of town was liberated by guerillas" "The area in the middle is occupied by German Nazi forces Fascists are sniping from the rooftops" "All bridges but one were destroyed" "The man wants to get to his wife and child" "And she wants to see a friend, a painter, who leads a group of guerillas" "Presumably he is his lover" "How does one get from here to there?" "From one liberated area to another liberated area" "Their destination can almost be seen" "The open road cannot be taken" "Another, secret passage has to be found" "It leads through ruins through rubble, courtyards, gardens via stairways and rooftops across brick walls, fences and locked gates" "They have to knock on stranger's doors, pass through stranger's apartments" "Often they have to crouch" "In the end the man disappears between buildings" "And is lost to the story" "And she has to learn, close to her destination, that her friend fell" "How does one get from here to there?" "A small window into how the most ordinary has to be accomplished in the most unusual way is shown in the short episode about fetching water" "Paisà by Rosselini" "How does one get from here to there?" "Where is my remote control?" "A woman takes a cab to a Milan suburb and goes for a stroll" "Possibly she is a little bored or a little sad" "The area is filled with debris or are these ruins?" "Everything looks half-finished" "She turns a corner and discovers some men" "who are fighting they are fighting seriously and without inhibition" "She interferes then runs off" "A new fence runs through here but then suddenly ends" "It doesn't limit anything" "She continues her stroll where the road ends, the town simply turns into fields young men are setting off fireworks" "the spectators tilt their head" "The fireworks ascend with a hissing sound and disappear in the sky" "She calls her husband to come she's in the quarter of town where they used to live" "While she waits for him she enters the courtyard of an old building" "Perhaps this is where they used to live and were happy" "It was not clear right away that this is a kind of re-turn" "Antonioni, too, returns to this place" "Back to the place of neo-realist film" "The husband arrives in order to pick up the woman" "La Notte by Antonioni" "I found the scene" "The deer hunter by Cimino" "In the background the factory, the place of employment" "In the foreground the home" "Two caravans joined together between them, the noise, the dust, the car" "The location is divided in two" "From here the young men will go to the war in Vietnam I can't see anything" "The location is divided into two parts" "There is more misery than happiness" "Los olvidados by Bunuel" "A cripple and an empty street the sun is shining suddenly his path is blocked" "He is asked for a cigarette, he refuses" "Whistling" "The street from above" "Young boys pour out from inside doors and crannies, they belong to a children's gang" "The cripple is surrounded a struggle ensues fighting his briefcase is taken" "The cripple is thrown into the street" "The gang leader takes the cart and gives it a big push" "The street is drenched by sunlight" "A cripple calls for the police" "Why would the street care?" " Where's my remote control?" " I've to make a call" "Le Doulos by Melville" "Outside." "Nighttime." "The town's last streetlight in no man's land" "The loot is hot and the weapon has to be made to disappear" "What to do with it?" "He creates a secret hiding spot like little boy" "In Melville the criminal is seen as a heroic urban dweller" "Dour circumstances drag him down" "There's no place that would be completely his own" "This place bears a secret now" "North by Northwest by Hitchcock" "Location:" "a meaningless crossroads on Highway 41" "Somewhere in the northern plains" "A man has a meeting with another man whom he doesn't know" "The meeting here was arranged to kill him" "But he doesn't know this yet" "He watches the bus driving off" "He looks into the other direction" "He turns around" "He looks across the road" "A car passes by" "A truck approaches" "Across the road a car is approaching" "A man gets out and stands by the side of the road" "They regard one another suspiciously" "They stand face to face a nervous encounter" "He crosses the road" "and they start an awkward conversation" "The other man is waiting for a bus" "In the distance a cropduster is spreading insecticide" ""That's odd, this time of year", the man says," ""the harvest is already finished."" "He's alone again" "The plane circles, then the attack begins!" "He is completely exposed" "Where to turn in this godforsaken place?" "It is difficult to lead a life to match a permantly impeccable haircut and in which one can perist at all times in a hand-made suit" "The film's subject is mistaken identity" "To be someone else than who one is mistaken for" "A landscape was chosen as location that presents the man as if served on a plate" "Without knowing it, he's being used" "He has stumbled into an identity that was constructed by the CIA" "And he's brought to a place where he does not belong." "The film even suggests that any identity is false" "Nonetheless, he runs for his life" "A little hero leaves quietly" "He's leaving with the woman he's found" "Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, by Renoir, the final scene" "The thing is he has killed the former owner of the company he works for" "This kind of disappropriation goes too far" "And thus the film has to evict this couple with a bad conscience" "My Darling Clementine, by John Ford" "The final scene" "The hero is leaving it's his departure from this story" "A gigantic landscape opens up in the final establishing shot" "The hero disappears into it" "Soon he becomes invisbly small" "This relativizes the meaning of heroic deeds and restores the film's dimension" "What we saw was only a miniature snippet of the world which itself is endless." "Ride the High Country by Peckinpah" "Final scene" "Nobody must see how the gunslinger dies" "He has calculated the value of every bullet that he has fired and that was fired at him" "It is a meaningless abundance" "A last look farewells all that which was never his" "He hasn't accomplished anthing, he has lived in vain" "2001, Kubrick" "New York by Depardon" ""Wherever people encounter one another a place of horror comes into being"" ""and nobody knows why", according to Bunuel" "there is no place but itself" "Subtitles: stefflbw (2010)"