In the 1950s and ‘60s there were many individual filmmakers considered as film a

In the 1950s and ‘60s there were many individual filmmakers considered as film auteurs that did not fit into a “new wave,” such as Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson who stood outside of French New Wave and went their own way. In Sweden Ingmar Bergman created complex masterpieces. Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel excited many art cinema fans. In Italy Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni rank among the greatest talents in the film history.
Please watch one of the films directed in late ‘50s or the ‘60s by one of the above-mentioned auteurs and write a minimum 500-word essay analyzing how this film reveals major characteristics of modernist films (including but not limited to its distinct formal and aesthetic characteristics such as objective realism, subjective realism, authorial commentary, plot structure).
Suggest film list:
1.  Michelangelo Antonioni:
(1) L’ Avventure/The Adventure (1960)
(2) La Notte/The Night (1961)
(3) L’Eclisse/Eclipse (1962)
(4) Red Desert (1964)
2.  Ingmar Berman:
(1) Wild Strawberries (1957)
(2) The Seventh Seal (1957)
(3) Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
(4) Persona (1966)
(5) The Touch  (1971)
(6) Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
3. Federico Fellini:
(1) Nights of Cabiria (1957)
(2) La Dolce Vita/The Sweet Life (1960)
(3) 8½ (1963)
(4) Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
4. Luis Bunuel:
(1) Viridiana (1961)
(2) The Exterminating Angel (1962) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2boe7u
(3) Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cad1f
(4) Belle de jour (1967)
(5) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise (1972)
5. Robert Bresson:
(1) A Man Escaped (1956)
(2) Pickpocket (1959)
(3) Au Hasard Balthazar/At Random Balthazar (1966)
(4) Mouchette (1967)
6. Jacques Tati:
(1) My Uncle (1958)
(2) Playtime (1967)
(3) Traffic (1971)
You should synthesize your knowledge of the history and aesthetic concepts of auteurism and the development of modernist film language through the required readings and the lecture in the class.