Film Influences of the Los Angeles School

In Ntongela Masilela's piece on the L.A. School of Black Filmmakers, he mentioned some of the influences that persisted through the films of the L.A. School. Below are examples of films from their respective movements:

Soviet Montage:
The Battleship Potemkin (dir. Sergei Eisenstein)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YQL2IYPzM

More on Soviet Montage: http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/filmnotes/eisenstein.html

Italian Neorealism:
The Bicycle Thief (dir. Vittorio di Sica)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE3QEc03Wbo

More on Italian Neorealism: http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/neorealism1.jsp

French New Wave:
Breathless (dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt_3NHCwyds

More on French New Wave: http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/fnwave1.jsp

Cuban Cinema:
Memories of Underdevelopment (dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac3LGgpo3h4

More on Cuban Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Cuba

Cinema Novo (from Brazil):
Black God, White Devil (dir. Glauber Rocha)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGu1bLwXL4

More on Cinema Novo: http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Academy-Awards-Crime-Films/Brazil-CINEMA-NOVO.html

Argentine Cinema:
The Hour of the Furnaces (dirs. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM7vgNq5MuU

More on Argentine Cinema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Argentina