How do we go from the Silent Era to New Hollywood and the emergence of Blockbusters in just 2 episodes? I think you've missed a few film movements and eras in between those time periods.
You're not wrong. There is a lot that we could talk about and each movement really deserves its own episode (at least). But we have 16 episodes to do all of this and we all felt this was the place to condense when discussing the overall evolution of cinema. BUT, the goal is (much like our History and Lit courses) to revisit ideas, theories, films, genres, and movements in the coming years :) - Nick J.
Well I hope you do. I would love to see videos on Japan's Golden Age, Italian Neorealism, Third World Cinema, New Mexican Cinema. South Korean New Wave, Hong Kong's Underground Movement, and maybe even the Dogma 95 movement.
A little constructive criticism, the best with this series in the beginning was that every little innovation got its own film, now this film dishes out some 40 years. I'm hoping to see more detail in the coming films. That said, great stuff, very eye opening!
I liked the pace of the earlier episodes with so much time spent on each subject but now I feel like the final few are going to end up being crammed with too much just to make it fit.
+CrashCourse: Yes, it's really fun. I'm more into literature than Cinema but this makes me want to investigate more about this topic. This course kind of reminds me to my Art History school clases... Maybe because of the way ideologies and experimentation/politics affect how artist make art and what they're trying to express.
*Punches Nick like the eagle* don't cry also, plz cover Mexican cinema on the international analysis, from the Golden age of Mexican Cinema, to the Luchador Films and crime B movies tarantino based his art on to the Cuaron and Iñarritu and Del Toro era.
Gosh this series seems to be moving along really quick. It's a shame since it's becoming one of my favorites. You guys plan to talk about television history too? How about talking about the various genres in film throughout history and the evolution of them?
Teaching kids how to set up a red head with diffusion, a flag for negative fill on a gobo, A cam on a baby, B cam on a dolly and ask the PM to make you some coffee. Guess which one isn't a film set lingo.
I haven't been watching a lot of crash course lately because I feel most of the recent topics have been rather dull. But I love this. I am so glad film history is bringing back that really good 2012-2014 crash course that I really enjoyed. Keep up the good work!
This whole series is very very interesting. I've been looking around for something like this but I couldn't find it. Thank you so much for making this! And I love Craig! He's really funny
I don't know if anyone who works on the show is on Letterboxd, but I wouldn't mind a recommended viewing list on there - both of films that are directly mentioned in the show (such as, for this episode, Bonnie & Clyde, Easy Rider, and the 400 Blows), but a few other films related to the topic of the episode that are worth watching to further your knowledge on the topic.
YES!! Love Letterboxd and this series, would love to see recommended viewing lists. Maybe I'll even make a list myself of all the films they've covered so far with others that I feel fit into the topic. Great idea!
Not specifically, no. We'll be talking a little about animation in our Film Production series (which is starting after Film History) but that's more in terms of special effects and character creation. We'd like to do more with animation but just didn't have room for it in this particular series :( - Nick J.
How about the “ British Kitchen Sink” and “Angry Young Man” movies: This Sporting Life, A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning , Billy Lair ,Georgy Girl and Sunday Bloody Sunday.
I love your crash courses in film history and have added them to my FB group World Cinema and TV that are scheduled to begin on 8/15. I love world cinema but I especially like how you capture these things quickly, hence the title and how you wrap up at the end. Very clever!
Loved every episode! Took two cinema courses at university and this was not only a refresher, but a fresh look on an old friend. A little sad when I heard Netflix and streaming would be next, since the series is coming eventually to an end. Hoping to find more content on cinema history... Any suggestions?
Truffaut was kicked out of cannes in '58 for saying how horrible all the films were then he won best director in '59 gives u an idea of how undeniably amazing the 400 blows was and still is
So no mention of Stanley Kubrick and just grazed over Hitchcock. That's either a major oversight for this topic, or you're saving them for a later video.
Please do a series on Music History. Also I feel that Independent Film since it's inception has always been sort of more artistically driven than big Hollywood films. Italian Neo-Realism would be a huge influence on Martin Scorsese which can be seen very clearly in Raging Bull.
that was fun little series. too bad it's reaching its inevitable ending. strange you got to do film history before you ever did crash course art history and crash course music history, I always expected you will do them first. maybe you'll do Animation history some day. considering your videos all feature animation.
I love this series but this episode was kind of a dissapointment :( To bad you guys are only going to make 16 episoded because I feel there is so much more to explore and talk about, but still love this serie. I hope it will get longer..
This video discussed Italian Neo-Realism and _didn't_ mention _Bicycle Theives_? That's a lot of restraint! It was probably a good choice because of the temptation to spend like 20 minutes on that film alone but still, kudos!
Great series, but how can a video on indie cinema not mention John Cassavettes? Or Roger Corman for that matter, who gave way to the Movie Brats and New Hollywood cinema...
Something that would have been interesting to mention is that in the 1950's and early 1960's (in the U.S. at least), children were banned from movie theaters in the summer because of polio. If they wanted to watch something it would have had to been on television.
Hey guys, I know some of you are annoyed that this has been condensed to the core. However, there are some good lectures done by MIT which I thought were pretty good. Your opinion may differ from mine, but they’re helping me quite a bit. They average between 45 mins to an hour long and devote three episodes to the Italian Neorealism movement and not sure how many episodes there are for the French new wave but the time dedicated to it is decent. Can’t really complain about what you’re getting for free, especially from MIT, I guess.
Thanks for the video, very informative. Could you please allow more time to see and hear perhaps? Talking slower, having slightly longer cuts to make it more enjoyable and less snappy? Just an idea, thanks again for taking the time.
What do you think about doing an Independent Cinema Part 2 talking about current independent studios and digital distributors, filmmaking, and the commonly historically repeated, re-hash syndrome. Perhaps throw some strauss howe generational theory cross pollination hypothesis into the mix?
"New Line Cinema" Oh, man, that takes me back. I had always thought they were a good studio, lots of movies I liked were made by them (TMNT and MK1, anybody?). Too bad the company's been swallowed up thanks to buyouts and corporate mergers. Their hayday was when they were fully independent.
Thanks for the great episode as usual! I'm sorry I always criticise your great stuff, dear Crash Course team, but could it be possible to extend Nick's script a bit, at least beyond a single word? If he's the person I saw on HFS he's absolutely awesome, it could be very funny to involve him a bit more than just making him be the grumpy director :-D EDIT: Possibly a plot-twist is planned and he says "yes" to something by the end of the season... I should just wait and see hahaha!
kinda disappointed you didn't give Italian Neo-Realism and French New Wave each their own episodes.
Srsly? Neo-realism and Nouvelle Vague condensed into half an episode? Each movement deserved its own installment!
Besides that, awesome series! 👍👍👍
I thought the same =T
I feel like this episode really wrapped things up too quickly, Italian Neo-Realism was so influential that it deserved it's own..
How do we go from the Silent Era to New Hollywood and the emergence of Blockbusters in just 2 episodes? I think you've missed a few film movements and eras in between those time periods.
You're not wrong. There is a lot that we could talk about and each movement really deserves its own episode (at least). But we have 16 episodes to do all of this and we all felt this was the place to condense when discussing the overall evolution of cinema.
BUT, the goal is (much like our History and Lit courses) to revisit ideas, theories, films, genres, and movements in the coming years :)
- Nick J.
CrashCourse Couldnt you just mention Kubrick once? He got left out completly, ah well still love the series and this episode.
#TEAMCRASHCOURSE!!! you are the best
This deserves more than 16 episodes I'm hyped for any future series
Well I hope you do. I would love to see videos on Japan's Golden Age, Italian Neorealism, Third World Cinema, New Mexican Cinema. South Korean New Wave, Hong Kong's Underground Movement, and maybe even the Dogma 95 movement.
This could have been like 4 episodes
Guys, did you seriously spent 6 episodes from 1890-1920 but just 3 episodes from 1930-2000? What the hell Crash Course?!
A little constructive criticism, the best with this series in the beginning was that every little innovation got its own film, now this film dishes out some 40 years. I'm hoping to see more detail in the coming films. That said, great stuff, very eye opening!
And now there is RUclips. The best place to showcase and develop your film-making.💙
or minecraft gameplays
Telling jokes now. Must be YT.
I liked the pace of the earlier episodes with so much time spent on each subject but now I feel like the final few are going to end up being crammed with too much just to make it fit.
This Crash Course Film History has been even more interesting than I expected.📽️🎭 Thanks you guys! 😊🖖🏽✌🏾 Also, the drawings are great. ✍🏿🎨
Thanks for watching :) I'm glad you're enjoying it.
- Nick J.
+CrashCourse: Yes, it's really fun. I'm more into literature than Cinema but this makes me want to investigate more about this topic. This course kind of reminds me to my Art History school clases... Maybe because of the way ideologies and experimentation/politics affect how artist make art and what they're trying to express.
I'm about to cry right now because this is how I pitched it last year. THANK YOU!!! :D
- Nick J.
*Punches Nick like the eagle*
don't cry
also, plz cover Mexican cinema on the international analysis, from the Golden age of Mexican Cinema, to the Luchador Films and crime B movies tarantino based his art on to the Cuaron and Iñarritu and Del Toro era.
Loba Étoile better than real school
last time i was this early, films didn't have synchronized sound
i usually hate these kind of comments, but +1 for creativity. x'D
more people need to watch crash course
Jesus, going from dedicating almost a decade of film history per episode, to just jumping almost to the 21st century in one go.
Love watching crash course during class presentations
We've really accelerated the pace of our historical overview, haven't we? Netflix next week?
We need soooo many more episodes of Crash Course Film!
Gosh this series seems to be moving along really quick. It's a shame since it's becoming one of my favorites.
You guys plan to talk about television history too?
How about talking about the various genres in film throughout history and the evolution of them?
This series seems to be wrapping up quickly. I wonder if they're going to talk about CGI and other revolutionary special effects.
We will be in our Film Production series :)
- Nick J.
Teaching kids how to set up a red head with diffusion, a flag for negative fill on a gobo, A cam on a baby, B cam on a dolly and ask the PM to make you some coffee.
Guess which one isn't a film set lingo.
Orson Welles I noticed that, this episode covered a lot of ground and felt kind of "squashed" with information.
Still good though!
Still good indeed
Nathan Frame PM is production manager. But you are right. I had a brain fart lol
I'm concerned about this show losing funding because PBS seems to be cutting a lot of their online projeccts
I haven't been watching a lot of crash course lately because I feel most of the recent topics have been rather dull. But I love this. I am so glad film history is bringing back that really good 2012-2014 crash course that I really enjoyed. Keep up the good work!
Great video! You forgot to mention the Czechoslovak New Wave though!
That escalated very quickly, you went from the 50's to the 2000 in just one video! :(
crash course vids are literally saving my life
We need a new wave of young creative directors ASAP. I love that the more I know history, the more I see that it repeat itself.
The Italians and French AND Koreans have been making some of the best movies I'VE EVER seen recently.
Thanks for naming Spike Lee. Hes not only important as a black filmmaker, but also as an indie visionary.
This whole series is very very interesting. I've been looking around for something like this but I couldn't find it. Thank you so much for making this! And I love Craig! He's really funny
I don't know if anyone who works on the show is on Letterboxd, but I wouldn't mind a recommended viewing list on there - both of films that are directly mentioned in the show (such as, for this episode, Bonnie & Clyde, Easy Rider, and the 400 Blows), but a few other films related to the topic of the episode that are worth watching to further your knowledge on the topic.
YES!! Love Letterboxd and this series, would love to see recommended viewing lists. Maybe I'll even make a list myself of all the films they've covered so far with others that I feel fit into the topic. Great idea!
LETTERBOXD
agreed
Would be nice Some of those "risky" independent films were hits because audiences were desperate for something new, not for actually being good.
Definitely not, they still hold up very well. And they aren't even that old.
Eagle punch sound: A+
7:40 was hillarious! This course is awesome. Thanks!
I'm surprised there was no mention of Satyajit Ray's films, hopefully they'll talk about him when they talk more about world cinema
I love this series!!!! I wonder if we'll go into animation....
Not specifically, no. We'll be talking a little about animation in our Film Production series (which is starting after Film History) but that's more in terms of special effects and character creation. We'd like to do more with animation but just didn't have room for it in this particular series :(
- Nick J.
That's unfortunate maybe "Animated Film: Crash Course"?
Yeah, I kept wondering when Disney was going to be mentioned, as he brought a huge change to the film industry, but I guess not in this series.
just finished typing a review on Breathless for a class and came back to this 4:51
Damn, you completely skipped Rohmer, Fellini and Visconti
How about the “ British Kitchen Sink” and “Angry Young Man” movies: This Sporting Life, A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning , Billy Lair ,Georgy Girl and Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Please keep making these. They are great!
Thank you.
I love your crash courses in film history and have added them to my FB group World Cinema and TV that are scheduled to begin on 8/15. I love world cinema but I especially like how you capture these things quickly, hence the title and how you wrap up at the end. Very clever!
Film history has been fantastic and really well done
Loved every episode! Took two cinema courses at university and this was not only a refresher, but a fresh look on an old friend. A little sad when I heard Netflix and streaming would be next, since the series is coming eventually to an end. Hoping to find more content on cinema history... Any suggestions?
This is a great quick crash course on film history. Thanks for sharing.
I think “Obsession” by Luchino Visconti made in 1943 is considered as the first italian neo-realist film!!
YAY🤗 A new episode! One of my weekly highlights 😃
Truffaut was kicked out of cannes in '58 for saying how horrible all the films were then he won best director in '59 gives u an idea of how undeniably amazing the 400 blows was and still is
So no mention of Stanley Kubrick and just grazed over Hitchcock. That's either a major oversight for this topic, or you're saving them for a later video.
GingerBeardMan27 hopefully the later
*latter
Avi Iyer thanks that always trips me up
This episode was packed!
YOU FINALLY MENTIONED STAR WARS (which has some what changed our culture) YOU ARE NOW A LEGAND
What I love about Indie Films is that they don't have to be over-budgeted.
Anyone, with the right training and mind, can do it.
Please do a series on Music History.
Also I feel that Independent Film since it's inception has always been sort of more artistically driven than big Hollywood films. Italian Neo-Realism would be a huge influence on Martin Scorsese which can be seen very clearly in Raging Bull.
that was fun little series. too bad it's reaching its inevitable ending.
strange you got to do film history before you ever did crash course art history and crash course music history, I always expected you will do them first.
maybe you'll do Animation history some day. considering your videos all feature animation.
I love this series! I sure hope an episode comes along dealing with Film Noir. Either way, keep the goodness coming!
You ARE Wheezy Waiter!!!
I love this crash course series so much, will you ever do crash course theater?
"Are we going to talk about Sharknado Nate?"
"No."
"Ok, good."
😂👍🏼
Good video thanks for the contribution
It's pronounced "chinecitta" in Italian "ci" makes a "chi" sound and "chi" makes a "ci sound. It's basically Opposite Day. 😂
Great episode and great series! Loving this work, and can't wait to see the world cinema epsiode/s you teased
I love this series but this episode was kind of a dissapointment :( To bad you guys are only going to make 16 episoded because I feel there is so much more to explore and talk about, but still love this serie. I hope it will get longer..
This video discussed Italian Neo-Realism and _didn't_ mention _Bicycle Theives_? That's a lot of restraint! It was probably a good choice because of the temptation to spend like 20 minutes on that film alone but still, kudos!
Really enjoy these, thanks for posting them! :)
I'm nearly convinced that Nick is just a soundboard with a single button: "No."
Good watch. Thanks.
I don't think I've seen one Mystery Science Theater reference yet. Get on that Thought Cafe!
I clicked on this video purely because of French the llama in the thumbnail!
Awesome
Great series, but how can a video on indie cinema not mention John Cassavettes? Or Roger Corman for that matter, who gave way to the Movie Brats and New Hollywood cinema...
Will you be talking about independent horror films in the 20th century like Night of the Living Dead?
i love this show!
Something that would have been interesting to mention is that in the 1950's and early 1960's (in the U.S. at least), children were banned from movie theaters in the summer because of polio. If they wanted to watch something it would have had to been on television.
this show is awesome
I have been waiting this whole series for him to say Star Wars 8:20
I'm surprised you didn't talk about The Deer Hunter this episode.
to link it back to crash cource sociology, them inter-group emotions i felt when New Zealand was left out of the map lol
Wow like 40 years in one episode. This escalated quickly.
Hey guys, I know some of you are annoyed that this has been condensed to the core. However, there are some good lectures done by MIT which I thought were pretty good. Your opinion may differ from mine, but they’re helping me quite a bit. They average between 45 mins to an hour long and devote three episodes to the Italian Neorealism movement and not sure how many episodes there are for the French new wave but the time dedicated to it is decent. Can’t really complain about what you’re getting for free, especially from MIT, I guess.
And now in the 2nd decade of the 21st century we're seeing what it all resulted in over time. A plethora of sequels upon sequels.
Interesting series. Are you going to be talking about the NBR and the MPAA at some point?
hey guys, i just wanted to leave a recommendation for your next crash course series, how about a course on music theory :)
Great intro music!
Fantastic job, BTW.
Best series!
Thanks for the video, very informative. Could you please allow more time to see and hear perhaps? Talking slower, having slightly longer cuts to make it more enjoyable and less snappy? Just an idea, thanks again for taking the time.
Cinecittà is actually pronounced like "Chinechittà". Great video though:)
amazing episode, as always.
but what happened to the audio at 3:46? did Craig recorded that part from his celphone?
What do you think about doing an Independent Cinema Part 2 talking about current independent studios and digital distributors, filmmaking, and the commonly historically repeated, re-hash syndrome. Perhaps throw some strauss howe generational theory cross pollination hypothesis into the mix?
Godard's movies are my favorite
Great series but it's slowly finishing off without enough info
So glad that Im going into colour grading where there are no risk assessments :')
Dont forget kids, saftey is no punchline!
Hopefully once this series gets to film criticism, much more will be said about these eras of movie-making.
Great video, but I wish they'd done a bit more on the French New Wave.
Everyone should check out Oats for independent awesomeness.
"New Line Cinema" Oh, man, that takes me back. I had always thought they were a good studio, lots of movies I liked were made by them (TMNT and MK1, anybody?). Too bad the company's been swallowed up thanks to buyouts and corporate mergers. Their hayday was when they were fully independent.
This episode could have definitely been split into two.
Are going to talk about Sharknado? No. Good!
On this note, everyone go see Baby Driver. Edgar Wright is amazing.
Stil have to wait until the end of this month.
Crash Course Animation would be pretty cool
Educational!
Thank you for the parts that are mot mistakes.
Thanks for the great episode as usual! I'm sorry I always criticise your great stuff, dear Crash Course team, but could it be possible to extend Nick's script a bit, at least beyond a single word? If he's the person I saw on HFS he's absolutely awesome, it could be very funny to involve him a bit more than just making him be the grumpy director :-D
EDIT: Possibly a plot-twist is planned and he says "yes" to something by the end of the season... I should just wait and see hahaha!
this episode felt very rushed and condensed. I mean i was expecting at least a couple of episodes to cover the time period covered just in this one.
No mention of the Hays Code repeal in 1968 (and the establishment of the then-MPAA’s CARA) and the increased stylistic freedom that followed?