This series of XML files all share a common recurring motif: the use of Point of View shots, or POV, a technique used by filmmakers to convey the viewpoint of different characters.

Film	Director	Year	Country	Format	File Description	XML Author
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
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
Lovers of the Arctic Circle	Julio Médem	1998	Spain	DVD	Four patterns: reflections, shared POV, fades, and shooting through portals	Diaz
Notorious	Alfred Hitchcock	1946	USA	Videodisc	Four patterns: subjectivity, psychologial movement, POV, and left/right	Steve Mamber
Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	1984	USA	DVD	Five patterns: POV, camera movements, signs/murals, scene transitions, and off-screen dialogue
Repulsion	Roman Polanski	1965	UK	Videodisc	Two patterns: POV and ambiguous subjectivity	Steve Mamber
Shutter Island	Martin Scorsese	2010	USA	DVD	Six patterns: POV, discontinuity, flashbacks, rearview projection, otherworldness, and light/fire/water/blood	Matthias Stork
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