• Examples of Pure Cinema

    by Arnold Kopff January 12th, 2008

    A selection of films that exemplify Pure Cinema in my opinion:

    D.W. Griffith : The Birth of a Nation (1915).
    Sergei Eisenstein : Battleship Potemkin (1925).
    Dziga Vertov : The Man With a Movie Camera (1929).
    Robert J. Flaherty: Louisiana Story (1948).
    Alfred Hitchcock : The Lodger (1927), Vertigo (1958), North By Northwest (1959). Psycho (1960).
    Carol Reed : The Third Man (1949).
    David Lean : Lawrence of Arabia (1962).
    Stanley Kubrick : Paths of Glory (1957), Doctor Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
    Federico Fellini : La Dolce Vita (1960), 8 ½ (1963), Juliet of the Spirits (1965).
    John Frankenheimer : The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Grand Prix (1966), Ronin (1998).
    Francis Ford Coppola : The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), One From The Heart (1982).

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