1967
Cities · Off-screen worlds · Rhythm
Playtime
Directed by Jacques Tati
The city has no acoustic centre. Footsteps, doors, chairs, machines and fragments of conversation continually redirect attention across Tati's wide frames.
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1989
Cities · Voices · Music becoming sound
Do the Right Thing
Directed by Spike Lee
Voices claim space, radios compete, and one song becomes character, argument and public territory on a single Brooklyn block.
1982
Cities · Machines · Voices
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott
Rain, multilingual crowds, industrial distance and Vangelis's electronics merge into a city whose weather, technology and memory cannot be separated.
2017
Rhythm · Subjective listening · Music becoming sound
Baby Driver
Directed by Edgar Wright
Songs, engines, footsteps, gunfire and edits share one pulse; the action is heard through a driver who uses music to organise both movement and tinnitus.
2018
Space · Cities · Off-screen worlds
Roma
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Long takes are surrounded by fluid, densely layered movement; homes, streets, demonstrations and the sea continue acoustically far beyond the frame.