The ClipNotes teams has established a database of XML files, most of which were created by students in UCLA film studies classes. Many of the files here are analyses of the film that trace a series of audiovisual patterns or motifs through the film. Also, a series of files were created as instructional aids that were used to teach film form and style in the “History of American Motion Picture” course at UCLA. We hope that they will be useful for other instructors as well; the instructional XML files are available here.

We’ve highlighted some of our favorite XML files in a series called Featured XML Files, as well as a few series of files that demonstrate some of the potential use of this database, such as creating ‘bundles’ for prominent directors (Hitchcock Series) and common audiovisual motifs (POV Series).

We hope the community of film scholars will help us build an extensive database of analytical and instructional material. Submissions are encouraged! Please contact stephen.mamber [at] gmail.com

Full Database

Film	Director	Year	Country	Format	File Description	XML Author
28 Days Later	Danny Boyle	2002	USA	DVD	Three patterns: surveillence shots from security cameras,obstructed views, and mirrors/reflections.	Alexandra Schroeder
3 Iron	Ki-duk Kim	2004	South Korea	DVD	Three patterns: statues, photographs, and paintings.	Bryan Wuest
The Age of Innocence	Martin Scorsese	1993	USA	DVD	Three patterns: flowers, hands, and ornate interiors.	Lindsay Giggey
Barton Fink	Joel Coen	1991	USA	DVD	Three patterns: transitions, offscreen space, and godly light.	DeMille
Battle in Heaven	Carlos Reygadas	2005	Belgium	DVD	Six patterns: Queues, corridors, blindness, subjectivity, painting, and flags	Hilo
A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	2001	USA	DVD	Two patterns: visual clues to John's mental process, and hear/don't hear fantasy characters before see them.
Buffalo 66	Vincent Gallo	1998	USA	DVD	Two patterns: bird's eye view and subjective camera.	Knutsen
Casablanca	Michael Curtiz	1942	USA	DVD - 2003	Instructional: Narrative Construction	Andrew deWaard
Chungking Express	Kar Wai Wong	1994	Hong Kong	DVD	Four patterns: divisions/separation, objects to subjects, isolation, tight spaces	Kim
Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	1941	USA	DVD - 2001	Instructional: Cinematography	Bryan Wuest
City of God	Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund	2002	Brazil	DVD	Four patterns: chase scenes, strobe lights, photographs, and rooftop transitions.	Amirpour
The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	1970	Italy	DVD	Three patterns: color represents central female characters, Surrealism, and use of light to represent city settings	Stuardi
Contempt	Jean-Luc Godard	1963	France	DVD	Five patterns: Voice/POV, color represents central characters, characters from Homer's Odyssey, framing separating characters, and critiques of Hollywood.	Catherine Dewar
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover	Peter Greenaway	1989	UK	DVD	Three patterns: food as grotesque, the color red symbolizing danger, and autonomous/artistic camera.	Jose Gallegos
Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick	1978	USA	DVD	Five patterns: overwhelming surroundings that overshadow people, unsettling natural elements, POV shots, mirroring of two main characters, and exchanges of glances with the camera.	Harrison Gish
Do The Right Thing	Spike Lee	1989	USA	DVD - 20th Anniversary Edition	Instructional: Stylistic-Thematic Analysis	Andrew deWaard
Don't Look Now	Nicolas Roeg	1973	UK	DVD	Tthree patterns: the color red symbolizing danger and death, reflections, and shattered glass.	Dragotto
Elephant	Gus Van Sant	2003	USA	DVD	Three patterns: intersecting lines and grids, the color red, and reiterations.	Ackerman
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Michel Gondry	2004	USA	DVD	Five patterns: color, objects joining memory, destruction/disappearances/fading away, playfulness, surrealism/distortion	Janell Rohan
Footlight Parade	Lloyd Bacon	1933	USA	DVD - 2006	Instructional: Gender	Diana Dill
The Graduate	Mike Nichols	1967	USA		Two patterns: wrong direction and moving characters,	Jessica Fowler
I Am Love	Luca Guadagnino	2009	Italy	DVD	Three patterns: light and color, house, and hands	Saundarya Thapa
I Confess	Alfred Hitchcock	1953	USA	DVD	Four patterns: religious iconography, city, shadow/obstruction, and subjective gaze,	Andrew Young
It's a Wonderful Life	Frank Capra	1946	USA	DVD	Three patterns: doubling, photographs, and looking through objects	Hartstone
The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	1971	USA	DVD	Three patterns: pan shots, doors, and thresholds	Gamez
Lovers of the Arctic Circle	Julio Médem	1998	Spain	DVD	Four patterns: reflections, shared POV, fades, and shooting through portals	Diaz
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	John Ford	1962	USA	DVD	Six patterns: vertical-horizontal, doorways, doubling, lights/lamps/matches, screen direction violation, and unmotivated camera movement.	Jenni Fong-Govea
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington	Frank Capra	1939	USA	DVD - 1999, Columbia Classics	Instructional: Interpretation and Meaning	Lindsay Giggey
North by Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	1959	USA	DVD	Three patterns: unexpected shot entrances/sideways camera movements, false appearances/lying/deception, and theatricality	Steve Mamber
Notorious	Alfred Hitchcock	1946	USA	Videodisc	Four patterns: subjectivity, psychologial movement, POV, and left/right	Steve Mamber
O Brother Where Art Thou (Option A)	Joel Coen	2000	USA	DVD	Four patterns: relationships between groups and individuals, fire, color, cows	Knapp
O Brother Where Art Thou (Option B)	Joel Coen	2000	USA	DVD	Three patterns: colors, threes, Hell
Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro	2006	Mexico	DVD	Three patterns: smooth transitions, color, and creatures emerging/fading	Michael Potterton
Paprika	Satoshi Kon	2006	Japan	DVD	Ten patterns: head space, costume changes, frame breaking, red lights, dolls, echoes/reflections, eyes/eye contact, use of red/blue, dremes, Wonder Woman	Clifford Galiher
Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	1984	USA	DVD	Five patterns: POV, camera movements, signs/murals, scene transitions, and off-screen dialogue
Psycho (Option A)	Alfred Hitchcock	1960	USA	Videodisc	Two patterns: doubling and turning to look	Steve Mamber
Psycho (Option B)	Alfred Hitchcock	1960	USA	DVD	Instructional: Sound	Heather Birdsall
Raw Deal	Anthony Mann	1948	USA	Videodisc	Two patterns: oblique angles, isolated light sources	Steve Mamber
Red	Krzysztof Kieslowski	1994	France, Switzerland, Poland	DVD	Three patterns: glass/reflections/light, linkages between Auguste and Valentine, linkages between Auguste and Julie	Steve Mamber
Repulsion	Roman Polanski	1965	UK	Videodisc	Two patterns: POV and ambiguous subjectivity	Steve Mamber
Rumblefish	Francis Ford Coppola	1983	USA	Videodisc	Four patterns: fish, glass, clocks, linking/doubling/subjectivity	Steve Mamber
Se7en	David Fincher	1995	USA	DVD	Five patterns: clues, labyrinths/stairs, Chiaroscuro lighting, title cards, and rain	Burtnett
The Servant	Joseph Losey	1963	UK	Videodisc	Three patterns: role of decor, mirrors, circularity	Steve Mamber
Sexy Beast	Jonathan Glazer	2000	UK	DVD	Fourteen patterns: floating, parallelism/opposing images, rabbits, guns, hearts, fast/slow speed, match cuts, flashbacks, back of head, symmetry, overhead shots, glass, revolving objects, and push/pull	Glienke
The Shining	Stanley Kubrick	1980	USA	DVD	Three patterns: tracking shots, mirrors, mad stares	Steve Mamber
Shutter Island	Martin Scorsese	2010	USA	DVD	Six patterns: POV, discontinuity, flashbacks, rearview projection, otherworldness, and light/fire/water/blood	Matthias Stork
Singin' In The Rain	Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly	1952	USA	DVD - 2002	Instructional: Editing	Heather Birdsall
The Social Network	David Fincher	2010	USA	DVD	Three patterns: camera movements, colors, and screens	Jimmy Gilmore
Speed Racer	The Wachowskis	2008	USA	DVD	Five patterns: speed, animation, chasing ghosts, color, and transitions	Meredith Levine
Spellbound	Alfred Hitchcock	1945	USA	DVD	Two patterns: bars and doors	Paula Perez
Stagecoach	John Ford	1939	USA	DVD - 2006, 2 Disc Special Edition	Instructional: Genre	Lindsay Giggey
Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges	1941	USA	DVD	Eight patterns: introduction, Sully's gaze, crowded frames, transitions between light and dark, shot party, Hollywood/slapstick, POV, and bodies	McClain
Sunrise	F.W. Murnau	1927	USA	DVD - 2002, Fox Studio Classics	Instructional: Mise-en-scène	Bryan Wuest
Suspiria	Dario Argento	1977	Italy	DVD	Four patterns: windows, overwhelmed protagonist, clones, and flowers	Ben Sher
The Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick	1957	USA	DVD	Six patterns: looking away, doors, small push ins/pull outs, round corner reveal, subject in middle, and cityscape cross-fade match	Bodie
The Best Years of Our Lives	William Wyler	1946	USA	DVD - 2000	Instructional: Cinematography	Diana Dill
There's Always Tomorrow	Douglas Sirk	1956	USA	DVD	Three patterns: character positions, space/geography, obstrusive/commentative style	Steve Mamber
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Jacques Demy	1964	France	DVD	Eight patterns: tracking shots, lovers embrace, match on action, color reveals, lovers stroll, mirrors, looking out of windows, and head on shots	Vanessa Mancia
Videodrome	David Cronenberg	1983	Canada	DVD	Two patterns: fourth wall and hallucination,	Michael Kmet
What's Up, Doc?	Peter Bogdanovich	1972	USA	DVD	Seven patterns: revealed/obscurred, Judy is OS, near misses, things are destroyed around Judy, Howard obliviously looks the wrong way, choreography and timing, and havoc/chaos	Steve Cuden
Written on the Wind	Douglas Sirk	1956	USA	DVD	Four patterns: mirrors, vertical objects, product placement, and frames within frames	Andrew deWaard