It got me thinking about what the five best “punctuation marks” in film might look like. I wanted to assemble a video essay with a rapidfire list of nominees of great moments of editing-as-punctuation in film. But as I started putting it together, the project grew into a twofold piece: an analysis of and response to Schulz’s article as well as an attempt to spur new insights about editing by examining it through the metaphor of punctuation.
So, here it is: 20 minutes long, clips from 100 films (101 if you count that Woody Allen quotes Duck Soup in Hannah and her Sisters), and, I hope, an inspiration to anyone else who loves film on a formal level and believes, as Bazin did, that the language of cinema isn’t done being invented yet.
What? You wanted to see a list of the films (in order of appearance)? Here they are.
Pulp Fiction | 1994 | dir. Quentin Tarantino
Sherlock, Jr. | 1924 | dir. Buster Keaton
Napoleon | 1927 | dir. Abel Gance
Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | dir. Dziga Vertov
Orpheus | 1950 | dir. Jean Cocteau
A Serious Man | 2009 | dir. Ethan and Joel Coen
So Is This | 1982 | dir. Michael Snow
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | 2010 | dir. Edgar Wright
Batman: The Movie | 1966 | dir. Leslie H. Martinson
All That Jazz | 1979 | dir. Bob Fosse
Collateral | 2004 | dir. Michael Mann
Bob le flambeur | 1956 | dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Fantastic Mr. Fox | 2009 | dir. Wes Anderson
Jaws | 1975 | dir. Steven Spielberg
The Searchers | 1956 | dir. John Ford
The Godfather | 1972 | dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Guys and Dolls | 1955 | dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Wattstax | 1973 | dir. Mel Stuart
The Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | dir. Sergei Eisenstein
City of God | 2002 | dir. Fernando Meirelles
Come and See | 1985 | dir. Elem Klimov
The Bourne Supremacy | 2004 | dir. Paul Greengrass
The Wild Bunch | 1969 | dir. Sam Peckinpah
The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | dir. Carl Th. Dreyer
Psycho | 1960 | dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Intolerance | 1916 | dir. D. W. Griffith
[image of Ivan Mosjoukine in footage used in the Kuleshov Experiment, ca. 1918]
Modern Times | 1936 | dir. Charles Chaplin
Koyaanisqatsi | 1983 | dir. Godfrey Reggio
The Graduate | 1967 | dir. Mike Nichols
All Quiet on the Western Front | 1930 | dir. Lewis Milestone
Psycho | 1960 | dir. Alfred Hitchcock
2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | dir. Stanley Kubrick
Touki Bouki | 1973 | dir. Djibril Diop Mambéty
Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | dir. David Lean
Citizen Kane | 1941 | dir. Orson Welles
Hannah and her Sisters | 1986 | dir. Woody Allen (which features a clip from Duck Soup | 1933 | dir. Leo McCarey)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt S1E6 | 2015 | dir. Michael Engler
Citizen Kane | 1941 | dir. Orson Welles
The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | dir. Victor Fleming
She’s Gotta Have It | 1986 | dir. Spike Lee
Shock Corridor | 1963 | dir. Sam Fuller
Stalker | 1979 | dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Wings of Desire | 1987 | dir. Wim Wenders
The Picture of Dorian Gray | 1945 | dir. Albert Lewin
Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | dir. Wes Anderson
Pierrot le fou | 1965 | dir. Jean-Luc Godard
La Ronde | 1950 | dir. Max Ophuls
All That Jazz | 1979 | dir. Bob Fosse
Fruitvale Station | 2013 | dir. Ryan Coogler
The Sacrifice [Offret] | 1986 | dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Fail Safe | 1964 | dir. Sidney Lumet
It’s a Wonderful Life | 1946 | dir. Frank Capra
All About Eve | 1950 | dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Chungking Express | 1994 | dir. Wong Kar-wai
À la folie… pas du tout | 2002 | dir. Laetitia Colombani
Peppermint Candy | 1999 | dir. Lee Chang-dong
Funny Games | 1997 | dir. Michael Haneke
Lost Highway | 1997 | dir. David Lynch
Sliding Doors | 1998 | dir. Peter Howitt
India Song | 1974 | dir. Marguerite Duras
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai Du Commerce 1080
Bruxelles | 1975 | dir. Chantal Akerman
Europa ‘51 | 1952 | dir. Roberto Rossellini
The Greatest Story Ever Told | 1965 | dir. George Stevens
Ceddo | 1977 | dir. Ousmane Sembene
Wanda | 1971 | dir. Barbara Loden
The 400 Blows | 1959 | dir. François Truffaut
The Cyclist | 1987 | dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Late Spring | 1949 | dir. Yasujiro Ozu
Breathless | 1960 | dir. Jean-Luc Godard
We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2011 | dir. Lynne Ramsay
When Harry Met Sally | 1989 | dir. Rob Reiner
Pillow Talk | 1959 | dir. Michael Gordon
Requiem for a Dream | 2000 | dir. Darren Aronofsky
Casablanca | 1942 | dir. Michael Curtiz
King Kong | 1933 | dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack
Vertigo | 1958 | dir. Alfred Hitchcock
The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | dir. Victor Fleming
A Turn of the Century Illusionist | 1899 | dir. Georges Méliès
Black Narcissus | 1947 | dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Cries and Whispers | 1972 | dir. Ingmar Bergman
The Age of Innocence | 1993 | dir. Martin Scorsese
Ikiru | 1952 | dir. Akira Kurosawa
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | 2014 | dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
Gone Girl | 2014 | dir. David Fincher
Arnulf Rainer | 1960 | dir. Peter Kubelka
N:O:T:H:I:N:G | 1968 | dir. Paul Sharits
Sans Soleil | 1983 | dir. Chris Marker
Letter from Siberia | 1957 | dir. Chris Marker
La jetée | 1962 | dir. Chris Marker
Sans Soleil | 1983 | dir. Chris Marker
Fargo | 1996 | dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
The Rules of Attraction | 2002 | dir. Roger Avary
Daisies | 1966 | dir. Vera Chytilová
Ballet mécanique | 1924 | dir. Fernand Léger
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song | 1971 | dir. Melvin Van Peebles
Holy Motors | 2012 | dir. Leos Carax
Stay | 2005 | dir. Marc Forster
Passage à l'acte | 1993 | dir. Martin Arnold
Report | 1967 | dir. Bruce Conner
Detour | 1945 | dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
The Travelling Players | 1975 | dir. Theo Angelopoulos
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1943 | dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The Conversation | 1974 | dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Man with a Movie Camera | 1929 | dir. Dziga Vertov
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