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 |
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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 |