Women In Film: Film clips for the class

Avant-garde/Auteur cinema

Avant-garde/ Auteur cinema

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A Question Of Silence - Marleen Garris
Sequence Description Length
1 Title sequence: the psychiatrist with her husband and three arrests: housewife, waitress, secretary 7:30
2 After housewife Christine is introduced, flashback to her shopping with a stroller 3:12
3 Janine interviews secretary Andrea's boss; flashback to corporation business meeting 2:11
4 Images of Christine's and waitress Annie's home lives 1:54
5 Flashback to murder 2:16
6 "I don't think they're insane." Flashback to the murder and what each woman does afterwards" 6:56
7 Janine and her husband in bed. Janine's images of each woman turning away 3:48
8 Flashback to Andrea having sex as a prostitute 1:27
9 Janine and Andrea: women's bond 2:13
10 In court, Janine argues the women are not insane 2:34
11 The laugh of Medusa 4:29


Celine and Julie Go Boating - Jaques Rivine
Sequence Description Length
1 Celine plays Julie with Julie's boyfriend and rejects his proposal of marriage 4:35
2 Celine and Julie use the candy to remember events in the house 6:33
3 Julie plays Celine in her nightclub act and challenges the male spectators 7:29
4 Wetsuits and Witchcraft 6:04
5 Saving the little girl in the house of fiction, part I 5:08
6 Saving the little girl in the house of fiction, part II 8:35
7 Saving the little girl in the house of fiction, part III 6:59


Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock
Sequence Description Length
1 Credit sequence 2:43
2 Midge draws a brassiere, Scottie needs support 3:06
3 Scottie meets Madeleine at Ernie's 1:37
4 The mirror in the flower shop and the man's gaze 1:10
5 Image of Carlotta in the art museum 1:56
6 Scottie saves Madeleine from drowning 2:19
7 Redwood forests and previous lives 3:40
8 Scottie's vertigo, Madeleine's fall 3:43
9 Scottie's nightmare 1:30
10 Judy's flashback 4:12
11 Judy's makeover 2:15
12 The dead Madeleine returns 2:51
13 Judy's fall. Final shot of Scottie 6:03


Last Tango in Paris - Bernardo Bertolucci
Sequence Description Length
1 Paul and Jeanne meet, have sex in the apartment 3:59
2 Paul proposes sex without names, without language 3:02
3 Jeanne and Paul exchange histories 7:33
4 Paul with Rose's lover 5:50
5 Paul bathes Jeanne 3:15
6 Paul with Rose's corpse 5:20
7 Paul pursues Jeanne to his death 6:51


Thriller - Sally Potter
Sequence Description Length
1 Title sequence: La Boheme + Psycho = Thriller 5:19
2 The plot of the opera La Boheme in the heroine Mimi's voiceover 3:25
3 They were making something in their studio: the male artist, the male philosopher. Mimi asks: "What if I had been the subject instead of its subject?" 5:50
4 Mimi asks about the prostitute Musetta: "Was she the victim also?" 1:37
5 Mimi says, "Suddenly I understand," and rewrites La Boheme from a Marxist and feminist perspective. 3:19
6 Mimi says, "Yes, it was murder" and regrets never making friends with the other woman in the story--Musetta. 0:38


Blue Velvet - David Lynch
Sequence Description Length
1 From the beginning to Jeffrey's discovery of the ear 5:12
2 Jeffrey as voyeur in Dorothy's apartment part 1 4:23
3 Jeffrey as voyeur in Dorothy's apartment part 2 8:59
4 Pussy Heaven 6:30
5 Dorothy nude on Jeffrey's porch 3:29
6 Final family gathering 3:03